I was debating between a six and a seven star rating I gave it seven stars because it was funny for adults I guess it was gory but I don't think the subject matter or the gore was anything that I didn't grow up watching. I mean Disney animation can be pretty messed up and gory without being overtly gory and traumatizing at least this was all done tongue and cheek and whenever cartoons or shows show you with some sort of afterlife in this case hell death is never really that much of a traumatic subject in my opinion.
The reason I didn't give it a higher rating it was because I really disliked how the foolish, immature, helpless, inept...just basically all around lousy human beings the king and queen a.k.a. Hantzel and Gretel's parents were. I checked the book out through the library while watching this so I'd like to see what the actual story did but in my opinion kids these days seem to think that they know more than their parents thanks to the brainwashing they go through at school with their professors telling them what to tell their parents and how stupid their parents are if they don't tote the same line the public school system is brainwashing their kids into regurgitating. I mean don't get me wrong kids always think they know more than their parents but that usually happens later in life telling small children that they are as capable if not Way more capable then their parents is not the smartest idea unless their parents are truly awful human beings and these two characters were not awful human beings they were just parents trying to do the best they could do.
Now had the message been that it was important to trust your children rather than just dismissing them as dumb kids who don't need to know anything then maybe I could've gotten behind that but this was basically telling kids that they were smarter and more capable in life than their dim witted cowardly parents and I don't think that's a good message to put out. In most cases parents do know best and kids almost never do because they are freaking annoying kids who haven't been alive for more than a decade and only been speaking in coherent sentences for like five or six of those years, hell they can barely remember 5 of those years! Grimm fairytales Were told to basically scare kids straight. They wanted children to beware of evil and to always mind their parents the storytellers decided to do the opposite basically don't trust adults because they're all weird and kind of dumb.
Again unless we're talking about truly awful adult behavior there's no good reason to send a message to children that just because they don't understand the actions taken by a parent/adult that they have the right to rebel or run away. And no, they don't have a right to literally start acting like they are the grownup.
The writer here made the parents out to be foppish morons who literally handed over there crowns to their children I mean give me a break. Um, have these guys even met children? They do not know best, they don't know much of anything actually and most importantly, they are all very very annoying.
Still this was funny enough and engaging enough that I binge watched it in one sitting so I'll leave my rating at 7 stars.
The reason I didn't give it a higher rating it was because I really disliked how the foolish, immature, helpless, inept...just basically all around lousy human beings the king and queen a.k.a. Hantzel and Gretel's parents were. I checked the book out through the library while watching this so I'd like to see what the actual story did but in my opinion kids these days seem to think that they know more than their parents thanks to the brainwashing they go through at school with their professors telling them what to tell their parents and how stupid their parents are if they don't tote the same line the public school system is brainwashing their kids into regurgitating. I mean don't get me wrong kids always think they know more than their parents but that usually happens later in life telling small children that they are as capable if not Way more capable then their parents is not the smartest idea unless their parents are truly awful human beings and these two characters were not awful human beings they were just parents trying to do the best they could do.
Now had the message been that it was important to trust your children rather than just dismissing them as dumb kids who don't need to know anything then maybe I could've gotten behind that but this was basically telling kids that they were smarter and more capable in life than their dim witted cowardly parents and I don't think that's a good message to put out. In most cases parents do know best and kids almost never do because they are freaking annoying kids who haven't been alive for more than a decade and only been speaking in coherent sentences for like five or six of those years, hell they can barely remember 5 of those years! Grimm fairytales Were told to basically scare kids straight. They wanted children to beware of evil and to always mind their parents the storytellers decided to do the opposite basically don't trust adults because they're all weird and kind of dumb.
Again unless we're talking about truly awful adult behavior there's no good reason to send a message to children that just because they don't understand the actions taken by a parent/adult that they have the right to rebel or run away. And no, they don't have a right to literally start acting like they are the grownup.
The writer here made the parents out to be foppish morons who literally handed over there crowns to their children I mean give me a break. Um, have these guys even met children? They do not know best, they don't know much of anything actually and most importantly, they are all very very annoying.
Still this was funny enough and engaging enough that I binge watched it in one sitting so I'll leave my rating at 7 stars.