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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Baby - short review
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 13:07:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 13:07:31 1985
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> I recently went to see the new Disney dinosaur flick, "Baby." My
> friend and I don't have a lot of respect for most Disney flicks, but

. . . . . 

> I think the word "Disney" - all the negative things that conjures up -

My Gawd!!!  Weren't you ever a child!   While I agree with some of your
comments concerning your perception of Walt Disney movies from an adult
point of view, you have to remember what Walt Disney movies are -- wholesome
family entertainment.  As such, the good and bad characters and plot 
episodes are often exagerated, much the same as "Classic" Disney movies
such as Absent Minded Professor, Snow White, etc.   If the Disney people 
wanted "Baby" to be taken as anything other than family movie (read heavily
oriented towards children), they would have released the movie under the
"Touchstone" label rather than the "Disney" label.  Too bad a G rating kills
a movie at the box office, otherwise they wouldn't have felt they needed to
creep into the "PG" category (creep is exactly what they did).

There are very few "family" movies produced these days.  While I don't have 
children myself, and at this stage in my life prefer to see "adult contempory 
movies" (how's that for a broad categoy), I am glad to see a movie such 
as "Baby" produced as an alternative for children to such movies as 
"E.T.", "Gremlins", and "Star Wars."  I appreciate the dilemma faced by 
many of my friends with children who have trouble finding movies that
won't either scare them or fill them with a lot of questions they don't
particularly feel like answering that day.

Don't get me wrong.  I enjoy many different types of movies, and have no
major qualms with the rating system or the types of movies being produced
(law of supply and demand, don'tca know).  However, some of my fondest 
childhood memories are of Walt Disney movies of the 1960's.  I hope the
Walt Disney genre of film never disappears.

                        -- Walt Tucker
                           Tektronix, Inc.