Comments on: Movie review- Meet the Robinsons

By: davesquared

davesquared — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:58:10 +0000

Had no idea about the adoption theme of Meet the Robinsons before renting. We have 2 adopted and 2 bio children and we (parents) were thoroughly disgusted by the portrayal of adoption in this film. Let’s see…a child must sell himself to innumerable couples to prove his worth to become part of their family. How ’bout we focus on ‘every child deserves a home and loving parents’ for an approach to adoption? This hack job has a sort-of 1920’s nostalgia for orphanages, and whomever at Disney was responsible for this story should be canned.

By: tecala

tecala — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:23:11 +0000

Erin
Although your review is thoughtful and informative, I still believe those of us who were initially blindsided by the adoption theme(absolutely no idea from any of the trailers) also have a point. Five and six year old kids don’t need a Virginia Tech to give them nightmares – a bug crawling up their arm can do it. They have huge imaginations, and while the movie ultimately portend to carry a good message(keep moving forward), the adoption ? is what they pick up on. I guess I really just wish Disney had the foresight to at least mention adoption, so we could have checked out the theme before hand.
Who knew rated G could be so complicated!!
In an aside, not related to the adoption theme, I found that this movie was inappriate in other areas(language, and violence just to name a couple)

By: wclathe

wclathe — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:39:00 +0000

Thanks, helps me decide whether to take our daughter or not.