Have kids, than no doubt you've been down this path of Disney, rewatching those films which you yourself haven't seen in decades, great article at the Guardian by Hadley Freeman - Bewildered, Bored, Delighted? The Disney Classic My Kids Loved - And The Ones They Couldn't Finish.
"Princesses, overpriced theme parks and a rapacious commercialisation of childhood: these would have been my suggestions if I’d been asked six months ago what I thought were Walt Disney’s legacies. Which isn’t to say that I’m anti-Disney. At all. Every generation has their Disney, and just as I grew up singing along to Ariel in The Little Mermaid and Mrs Potts (so superior to Belle) in Beauty and the Beast, so my children are regularly babysat by Frozen and Encanto. I watched the films on a VHS, my children stream them, but the effect is the same: just one glimpse of the Magic Kingdom icon at the start of a Disney film acts like a stun gun on them, silencing them mid-argument then pinning them to the sofa..."
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