Having grown up out of town some twenty yrs ago, where everyone basically watched Disney (we watched snow white in seventh grade in BY, the only disclaimer was a joke about the ending being cpr) and having stopped watching all tv/movies around nine yrs ago, I enjoyed this film a lot. However, it was sligtly too disney/goyish feeling for me to put it on for my kids (plus my oldest is only six. In theory tho…)
It also really bothered me that the produces kept stressing that they wanted to raise the bar on Jewish entertainment. I’ve always learned and believed that its a good thing that we don’t have movies and tvs, not just cuz of bad content. They all too often are used as substitute parenting/babysitting, and are brain numbing and addictive for kids.
I was once in a class by rabbi lieb kelemen (of neve yerushalayim) and i’ll never forget how he exclaimed “watch a movie with my kids?! I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy! There’s no communication, no kesher!” Then I had to go look up what a frontal lobotomy was 😉