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anyone see it and have thoughts they'd like to share on the appropriateness for adopted kiddos?
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I'd have to agree with Crick's kids, "it's just a movie". An animated movie. No part of it was realistic what so ever!! There are always going to be movie topics out there that reflect peoples lives. Can't help that. There's a lot of people in the world. We saw it and my son just loved it. He was way more interested in the crazy things that were going on and those minions than any real story line. It was cute and uplifting, I thought anyway.
IT def. depends on were your kids are with adoption, how they were adopted, and thier llife experiences. Cricks kids have been securely in thier family for quite some time now, R has been home less than a year, and has no experience with group homes- except that she knows her sister was in one. I think to say "Its just a movie" may be right for one set of kids and wrong for others.
My son is 7 1/2 and adopted as a toddler, so he may not have the same reactions as a child adopted older. He loved the movie, thought it was a riot, and when I tried to talk to him about the adoption part said "mom, please...he steals the moon in the movie, do you think I believed that part too!!" Lauren, mom to Michael
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IT def. depends on were your kids are with adoption, how they were adopted, and thier llife experiences. Cricks kids have been securely in thier family for quite some time now, R has been home less than a year, and has no experience with group homes- except that she knows her sister was in one. I think to say "Its just a movie" may be right for one set of kids and wrong for others.
No part of it was realistic what so ever!
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I saw it with my daughter (who will finalize this fall) and her former foster sister (age 16, adopted at age 6). Neither of them blinked at the adoption scene. The children are returned to the orphanage, but not by the parent who adopted them, but by someone else -- and the adoptive parent grieved the entire they were gone. Since both girls were in foster homes, I don't think they even saw the orphanage as real. Neither of them think they can be returned either. My daughter thinks we have finalized, and her foster sister has been finalized for a long time. Their favorite line came from one of the girls, but they never said anything about them being orphans or adopted or anything.
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I just wanted to update this after I had a discussion with my 8 y.o. FD who saw the movie a second time with her Summer Fun group. She was completely oblivious to and (seemingly) unaffected by the adoption storyline. She LOVED the movie...
My 12 year old dd & 11 year old son saw it and gave it the big thumbs up!They both said it was funny and when I asked about the adoption theme they really had to think about it. Said it didn't really occur to them while watching the movie itself. They also both made the point that it's NOT the dad that sends the girls back to the home, it's the evil guy. That made a difference.:)Also said that with it being a cartoon, things don't seem real in a cartoon and anything can happen. Then they went on to list all the impossible things that happened. lol.
crick
They also both made the point that it's NOT the dad that sends the girls back to the home, it's the evil guy. That made a difference.:)
We took our kids to see it yesterday. The theater was PACKED. DS, age 6, loved it. DD, almost 2, idn't care for it. Or probably any movie at this point. DS is our bio child and we adopted DD at birth, so the older child adoption didn't resonate, but for the first time ever DS asked us what does adopt mean? He was 4 when we adopted DD, and that seemed completely normal to him.
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My daughter saw it yesterday, so I asked her to tell me about it this morning. She, too, was very clear on why the girls were taken from their dad. She said, "the evil guy knew that the kids meant something to the not-so-evil guy, so he took them." She noticed the adoption theme, but didn't focus on it in her recap.
I'm so glad to hear that everyone's kids enjoyed this movie as much as DH and I did! We went to the drive-in to see it Friday night, and as the credits were rolling DH was saying "We HAVE to buy that when it hits DVD!" Our night at the drive-in was our last 'date night' before parenthood as placement is tomorrow, and wouldn't you know we would choose to go to a kid's movie, lol! :popcorn: