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Film · Disney · 1961

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The Parent Trap

41Leave it.

The wish for one house is sound. The long deceit is not the method to hand a child.

Take controlThis scores 41. If you do not want The Parent Trap in the house, the steps are on Disney+. Block it

The review

Two girls who do not know they are twins meet at camp, hate each other, and then decide to switch places so each can meet the parent she has been kept from. The wish under the trick is the part I will defend. Children of a divorce want one house, and the film does not mock the want. The parents are charming and at fault. The fault is that they split the children as if a child were a belonging to be divided.

The method is a long lie, and the film thinks the lie is delightful all the way until it works. I would not hand a child that delight without a sentence. The sentence is that the want was right and the trick was not the grown solution. Watch it if the house already loves it. Do not introduce it as a model of how resourceful children fix a marriage. A marriage is not the children's project, even when the children are paying for it.

Journal

Keep The Parent Trap in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Breadwinner

53 instead of 41

The Breadwinner is still a comedy film, and it scores 53 instead of 41. What you gain is industry: He had a job.

The eight

4
Industry
Camp and the scheme take energy. The energy is spent on a trick.
6
Household
The ache is a real one: two children who want one household, and parents who left it.
3
Piety
No reverence. The trick is the highest ingenuity the film is interested in.
5
Courage
They risk a summer and a punishment. The risk is bold and misaimed.
2
Republic
The public is a camp. The debt they ignore is the truth owed to the adults.
4
Temperance
The charm is the excess, and the film finds the charm sufficient.
4
Truth
The divorce is a true wound. The lie they tell for most of the picture is still a lie.
5
Stewardship
A child inherits the wish, which is good, and the method, which needs a correction.

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Film · Roadside Attractions · 2026

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Buddy

41Leave it.

Forced cheer is a cage. The child who says no is the one the show cannot bear.

Take controlThis scores 41. Buddy cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Inside a 1990s children's program, an orange unicorn leads the songs. A boy will not join the dance. He vanishes, and the host tells the others he has gone to a perfect city. Another child finds what he left, and it is not a postcard. The public story stops at the crack: the cheer was the lock, and the no was the thing the lock could not allow.

Do not put this in front of a child who still loves a show like it. The measure is for the adult who presses play. A smile that punishes the child who will not wear it is not friendship. It is a host.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.