Disney Princess Movies Are Not For Small Kids

November 20, 2008
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As part of my coping with the school holiday strategy, I’ve made use of the kids ability to be entertained by movies and their current fascination with Walt Disney stories and got myself a few DVDs.

The only problem is, most of the Walt Disney movies feature a wicked character and scary moments that frighten both Eu and Qi.

In Beauty and Beast, Eu especially hated the part where Gaston, the character whose attention was rejected by Belle, shot the Beast.

In Cinderella, they both informed me that the stepmother and the two stepsisters were “very very bad!”.

In Sleeping Beauty, the part where the evil fairy turned herself into a dragon and fought with Prince Philip was a peep-from-behind-the-table moment.

Snow White I think is by far the scariest even for me. The magic face that appears in the mirror was spooky and the nice-looking-but-actually-wicked old peddler woman who was the Queen in disguise tempting Snow White with an apple was scary. Although this is a chance for me to stress the lesson that kids must always be wary of strangers.

It’s funny how I would never let Eu watch anything like this when she was Qi’s age and yet, there’s Qi watching all these movies alongside her sister. I am surprised too that none of them developed any nightmares although both insisted that I returned the “Snow White” movie back to the shop.

I definitely have to reconsider my movie choices and as much as they liked these fairy tales, I will look around for more U rated cartoon movies with no adult jokes and no scary characters or moments.

Like “Alice In Wonderland” which they enjoyed but when asked, “No, I didn’t like it”. Simply because it has no princess and no prince charming…

Still, it looks like they have to stick to the Disney Princess magazines for their dosage of princessy-fun.

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