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Isn't this weird? Happens to us all the time. These kids are way too complicated! I've learned to become very suspicious after 11 years of parenting.

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Grinity

Funny, my girls loved Wall-E, but often get freaked out about things I would never guess!

My 10 year old HATED Wall-E. He thought it was depressing and awful. I had to make a conscious decision not to find it depressing myself. I also thought we were going to a G-rated movie about robots falling in love!!!

That stinks! Sorry you had such a bad experience.

I'm glad your girls enjoyed it!!!

It wasn't that bad really, for me anyway. I actually decided I was going to enjoy it and view it as an over the top social commentary. When I looked at it that way I was able to enjoy it and my 7 year old really enjoyed it. Poor DS10 though always takes things very, very seriously. If I had know what it was going to be I could have warned him and we could have talked it out before hand about it being "over the top". That seems to help with him.

So anyone else out there that is going to see this movie and they have a very sensitive child you might want to warn them a bit before you go.

I agree with that EandC. Oftentimes both girls are affected by movies where you can take a not so subtle social commentary and easily extrapolate into a very real and scary possible scenario. I'm so sorry DS got upset and I can see why he did.
The strange thing for me is I got so caught up in the artistic beauty of the animation, I was enjoying it so much on that level I wasn't paying as much attention to the thematic aspects of the story.
Spoiler alert:

I would definately carefully consider taking a child that has the capacity to internalize that "mild peril" that those animated movies are so famous for.

We (DS7, DD4, and I) all saw Wall-E this weekend. I enjoyed much like 'Neato did (won't print a spoiler!), but I was cringing a bit because I knew the discussion and issues it would bring up for DS later! Harry Potter or Star Wars he looks at as pure fantasy, but he really picked up on the social commentary angle. Both kids did enjoy it though.

My general rule for my DS8 is that he has to read to book before he can see the movie.

SAME HERE!!! Yeah I'm not the only one! I was going through the 3rd grade stack of writing and actually found a page DS wrote in his journal saying he liked reading books because they had more action than the movies do. And yes I was all prided up. LOL