Years ago, the Friendly Sharptooth gave an interesting idea about LBT 11 in his discussion about how the kids in the movies are generally smarter than the adults.
In movie number eleven, things went right back to the role confusion. Why, oh why, couldn’t you keep things right when you had them that way? Oh well. What’s done is done. Let’s take a look at the damages. Hm, not much to really say about this one. The kids accepted the tinysauruses while the adults feared them and wanted to drive them away. The kids were like John Smith from Disney’s Pocahontas, the tinysauruses were the Indians, and the adults were the other white men. Both groups could not accept the other on equal terms and wanted to be as far away from each other as possible. The white men (the LBT grownups) wanted to drive away the Indians (the tinysauruses) while John Smith (the kids) found peace with both sides at once. Whoa, hold the phone. This isn’t LIKE the Pocahontas movie. It IS the Pocahontas movie. The savages song from Pocahontas is just like the creepy crawlies song from the LBT movie. I can just see the director, trying to think of a plot for movie eleven, then his little daughter tugs on his pants and asks him to watch a movie with her. He refuses for days, then finally accepts, having found no ideas. As he watches Pocahontas, his eyes lights up, and he calls the writer team up. Sadly, the father never finishes the movie with his daughter. I mean, seriously, the plot theme was just like that Disney movie, although they kept the original formula of the kids being superior in intellect to the adults. The movie downright mocks adults. One chases her tail, and one gets stuck. This just piles on the incompetent notion of adults to young viewers, and also shows them that adults look for trouble while it’s the kids that want peace with things. Another example of the bad role reversal of adults and kids, and to make things worse, the plot isn’t even original. Okay, I stand corrected. There really IS a lot to say about this one- sadly.What an interesting observation. I remember people were saying the exact same thing about "Avatar" when it came out, but that movie was un-disneyish enough that a mature adult could enjoy it.
Pochahantas has never been a movie I've been fond of, but assuming this story was true, this gives me a reason to really dislike it for being one of the last nails in the coffin of the LBT franchise.
On the other hand, it did end up bringing back the subject of racism, which had all but disapeared ages ago, after the departure of Roy Allan Smith. And this wouldn't be the first time LBT had really ripped off a film storyline. Marzgurl mentioned a similar case in one of her reviews (man, I love her and her reviews.)
Anyways, good job on the analyzation, Friendly Sharptooth. (I gave you credit for it during my first year here, as you probably saw).
BTW, I wonder if Charles Grosvenor even has a daughter. Or if he even comes up with the ideas for the film's storylines.
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