Animated Movies

This week I am going to talk about animated movies and the message they leave. Animated movies are for the most part directed towards children so it would be expected for them to send a message across that would be positive and appropriate. The only animated movie that comes to my mind that might not be directed only towards young children would be The Incredibles. This movie is for the most part a children's movie but it has some humorous parts in it that adults would catch but probably not young children. This could be to encourage more parents take their children to the movies or for parents to want to go along more often. Either way animated movies have the best messages in them. Today I watched a movie called Surf's Up. This is a movie about a penguin who has a dream to be a surfer like his idol Big Z. He travels all the way from Antarctica to Pen Gu Island where this really big surfer tournament is held. At first he is way out of his league and takes a nasty spill that no one thought he would come back from, but after hanging out with his surfer idol buddy who was supposedly dead, he learns a few life lessons and how to surf. He ends up with a chance to win the whole thing but instead he helps give his buddy Chicken Joe the chance to win and he does. The message that comes from this movie is that winning is not everything and that it is more important to have fun than to win. Two other movies I can recall that I like to watch, in fact I might consider them my favorite two movies, are Cars and Meet the Robinsons. Both of these movies send out a great message. Cars is a movie about a race car with an ego that is way to big. He ends up in a small town that is definitely not growing and he learns a lot about himself and about not forgetting the small people and where you came from. Meet the Robinsons is a movie about a crazy family with a dad being a very intelligent inventor who creates a time machine and it ends up helping a young orphan boy not give up on his dreams and the chance of finding a family. You can learn a lot from watching animated films such as these so I suggest you watch a few, especially these ones. It will definitely be worth your time, trust me.