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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I took my 15 year old to see it, and I absolutely loved it.  And I'm not a Jolie fan.  With that said, there were numerous kids there under 9 years.  They were also well-behaved but that may have been because they were either mesmerized or scared.  We saw it in 3-D.

There are intense moments, though.  I'm no critic but I think Johnny Depp would have made a better king.  I've read differing critics opinions, thumbs up and down.  What they forget is that it's a Disney movie and not a foreign film.

If your kids might get scared, I might forego the 3-D.[/quote]

So, the NYT review seemed to suggest that Maleficant's theme is older women envy young girls and seek to destroy them.  As I recall "Tangled" also hinted at this.  I'd be interested in your take as the mom of a teen girl, PP.[/quote]Here's another review from the NYT.  Most reviews are from a personal prospective, and the reader may not share the same tastes. “Opinions are like armpits – everyone has them and some of them stink,” so the old adage goes. This phrase rings doubly true when it comes to movie critics and their reviews of films.

[i]“I sat cringing before M-G-M’s Technicolor production of The Wizard of Oz, which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity… I don’t like the Singer Midgets under any circumstances, but I found them especially bothersome in Technicolor… I say it’s a stinkeroo.” – Russell Maloney, The New Yorker[/i]

[i]“It’s a Frankenstein’s monster stitched together from leftover parts. It talks. It moves in fits and starts but it has no mind of its own. Occasionally it repeats a point made in The Godfather (organized crime is just another kind of American business, say) but its insights are fairly lame at this point. The Godfather, Part II, which opened yesterday at five theaters, is not very far along before one realizes that it hasn’t anything more to say. Everything of any interest was thoroughly covered in the original film, but like many people who have nothing to say, Part II won’t shut up… Looking very expensive but spiritually desperate, Part II has the air of a very long, very elaborate revue sketch.” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times[/i]

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