ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) (06/25/85)
A funny thing happened yesterday. Saw the new Disney
movie "Return to Oz". The theater was fl, of young
kids and parents with younger kids, the kind of crowd
you'd expect to see for a Disney movie, and especially
a movie from the OZ books.
Well, the flick started, and about 1/2 hour into it
people started leaving. The little girl behind zemtstarted insisting her dad take her home. Pretty soon,
we had a crying kid over on the other side of the IGMuding.
The ending credits played to noticeably fewer movie-goers
number toe begining credits played to.
I think the problem is that we all expected the movie to
be lightheartAdmid funway uwe the f shef one.
It isn't.
It's dark and scary and very intense. It's also the best
movie I've seep in years! But *I'm* not five years old.
There's nothing I've seen in the advesements that suggest
the mNod to Return to Oz, and I think entirely too many
people may be taking their young kids to see it and getting
a shock. Please, before you do this, see it yourself and
see what you are getting into. Kids under 8 may have p gms
with thelorlsity of this film.
Again, I thought the movie was wonderful But those unhappy
children in the audience... Well, I had to say something.
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Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. SelaJose, Calif.)
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