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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Baby - short review
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 13:26:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 13:26:29 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.

	Walt, I could be wrong, but I think the original poster was objecting
not to the family orientation of Disney movies, but simply to poor movie
making. There are many like myself who *love* the Disney classics, but
who also feel that the Disney organization has not been the same since
the old man died, and has produced few movies even a child could respect
in recent years.

>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.
 
	Was ET a scary movie? As I recall it, it was not. I always figured
it got a PG rating because of one or two instances of slightly adult
language. By contrast, I know a number of people who were quite frightened
by the witch in SNOW WHITE when they saw it as children.
	I think one can applaud the intent of Disney Studios to make
family-oriented films, and still criticize them for doing such a rotten
job of it.

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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