Let us be clear, Gris is sugar-coating that answer.
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I thought they might be really bad, but I couldn't remember.
4-year-olds tend to love them, to be fair, much like they tend to love the direct-to-video Disney sequels, but the answer is still an unqualified No. And I don't think 4-year-olds would love them who hadn't seen the original, though I could be wrong about that.
Honestly, at 4, I'd stick with DVDs of TV shows aimed at children, once the Disney and Pixar is tapped out. Though I was a huge Return of the Jedi fan at that age, so whatever works.
The Dark Crystal.
Most def. Not scary at all.
Uh, Juliebird? Is that your tongue in your cheek or are you just happy to Skeksis?
Skeksis, nothing. The gelflings are frickin' creepy-looking as all get out.
I don't remember being skeeved as a kid by the Gelflings. By the Skeksis? Hell yes.
Oh god, and the beetles . . . ::shudders::
Genocide, slavery, murder, what's not kid friendly about that?
Kit Harrington is going to be doing one of the voices for How to Train Your Dragon 2.
Oh shit, Andrew Sarris died.
The Village Voice was my formative out-of-school education and Sarris was The Man in film criticism (though I also took a lot from J. Hoberman, and Georgia Brown (aka, The Mom in the Squid and the Whale).
His throwdown with Pauline Kael was legendary.