By Shawn Smith
Think that adult joke snuck into your child’s favorite Disney movie went over their head?
Probably not, says author and podcaster Laurie Krieg, as she recounted the line that stuck with her daughter after she watched ZOOTOPIA 2.
“We were playing a game the other day, and my daughter quotes one line from ZOOTOPIA 2 that I had seen on Instagram that was like, ‘Oh, snap. Matt just took the kids to see that. I really hope that line went over their heads.’ It didn’t,” recalled Krieg.
While Krieg isn’t accusing Disney of trying to plant corrupt thoughts in children’s minds, leading to awkward game nights or dinner conversation, she pleaded with the House of Mouse to find a different approach to keep parents entertained while taking their children to the movies.
“Okay, I get it. I’m not an idiot. Disney’s trying to be like, ‘Wink, wink. Hey, there parents. We see you. You’re here too. We don’t want you to be bored. So here’s a funny joke for you,”’ the Raising Wise Kids In A Sexually Broken World author said.
“Can you please take a page out of BLUEY’s book and do like that sort of wink at the parents because we like that. It makes us both laugh and cry,” she continued. “You don’t need to do sexual stuff when you wink at us because then our kids do hear and they pick up on it, and then they say it like, while we’re playing a game.”
Rapper Snoop Dogg had a similar experience when he took his grandson to the movie LIGHTYEAR. It wasn’t an innuendo but a scene that featured a same-sex kiss that caught him off guard.
“Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,” Dogg recounted.
“It threw me for a loop. I’m like what part of the movie was this? These are kids that we have to show that at this age like, they’re going to ask questions. They are going to ask. I don’t have an answer,” he went on to say.
That is why Movieguide® exists. The reviews not only give readers the overall entertainment quality of the movie, it warns of any content that such as profanity, sex and nudity that parents might not want to expose their kids to.
Krieg shared that protecting children and having them rooted in the Lord so they “stand strong in a wild world” is just the start. Parents should to also focus on the “fruit” they are meant to bear in the world.
“Our kids are made with unique fruit-bearing gifts,” she said. “So are we making sure our kids are just strong? Are we helping them love God and love this world and love their neighbor, so they bear fruit in it.”
Next time you pick up on an adult joke in a children’s movie, remember that you might need to have a conversation about it.
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