Of course, we went to the very first showing. It’s a movie about how screens are bad for kids. Are you kidding me? We pre-bought the tickets weeks ago. The theater was full even for an early showing. It’s summertime, and parents are experiencing the unrelenting horror of screens all day long. The moon there was bound to be a hit. It’s a sweet, touching film, and it deserves the success.
Toy Story 5 a Disney movie, so there is wokeness. What are you going to do? That crap is everywhere. The anti-screen message fizzles out in the end with the idea that screens are fine, as long as you can alternate them with imaginative play and healthy socialization. This sounds good in theory but it’s not realistic. Screens are addictive and push out the alternatives. I’m an adult who only encountered a portable screen well after becoming a grown up. Yet every time I want to read, I have to force myself. It’s an effort. For me, of all people, reading is an effort because of screens. Nobody would be having any problem with this at all if people did not get addicted and could snap away from the screens easily. Brushing teeth is easy to quit. No parents on the planet are battling their children for “teeth brushing time”.
You can’t be a little bit pregnant. You’re either pregnant or you’re not. It’s the same with screens. Being around and not getting addicted is a pipe dream. Addics immediately go into a defensive narrative about how they “can quit anytime”, which is precisely how you know that they are addicts.
It’s a good children’s movie, though. I don’t think Disney had a really big success in a while, and I hope that this movie hits it big.
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