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January 20, 2024
Not safe for current or former foster kids
Not adoption/foster care friendly- do not recommend for young children who may be impacted by seeing a totally unrealistic story of finding one's birth parent. I don't want to take away from the amazing acting in the film, or the music, but the writers should have done their due diligence around the topic of foster care, or as they put it "damaged orphans". I saw it with my children who were in foster care, and realized I should have done more research, when, 5 minutes in, Willy was introduced by the inn keeper to the "damaged orphan" girl. For the record, this little actress is absolutely amazing and going to be a big star. But, the vast majority of kids are NOT being held hostage away from their perfectly fit parent who lives in the child's fantasy favorite place (library). I had such high hopes that Willy would continue to care for the child, but what I realize is that future Willy doesn't have a heir or a family (hence the whole reason for the future storyline and golden ticket), so the writers needed a cute little girl to partner with Willy for ratings, then had to tie a bow on her story by going the perfectly lazy "Storks" Tulip route and reunite her at the end with her mother, who looks just like her (of course, as children "should" is the message here), who is perfectly able to take her in with open arms. Absolutely infuriating to have kids 7-10 years old leave the theater with the message that their birth family was "less than". Honestly, my disdain for this part of the storyline far over-shadows anything good I have to say about the rest of the movie. Lazy writing, poor research, dumb ending.
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May 15, 2020
Not inclusive- at all
Not a good show if your child is adopted, will teach them the message that kids have to look like their parents to "fit together". As someone mentioned, all families also have to have a Mom and Dad. Leaset inclusive show we've seen in a while.
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March 28, 2020
This show is offensive
I created an account here just to write a review of this show after sitting here watching it with my 13 year old. I'm fairly progressive about what I let my daughter watch, but I swear the only thing that can occur watching this show is someone's brain cells dying. Not only is there nothing positive in it, no good role models, it actually is mean spirited and just plain dumb. They were making fun of an adult's job of "selling wide shoes to wide footed woman"?? So, we are making fun of wide people by inventing a job that doesn't exist? Or is that a transphobic joke? The (I guess) "adult" in the show joined the kids in making prank calls that were offensive. I could go on and on after watching just one episode. A show doesn't have to be educational, but this show is completely void of any entertainment value.