1. The Iron Giant
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Incredibles
4. Ice Age: The Meltdown
5. Happy Feet
6. Wall-E
7. Battle for Terra
8. Astro Boy
9. Cars 2
10. Happy Feet 2
11. The Muppets

Rate your libbiness on how many you've seen. I'm 8/11 libbiness.

Astro Boy sucked major ass... The animation and character design is pretty well done, thou...

FTFA, on Happy Feet: "In Australia, we're very, very aware of the ozone hole," director and co-writer George Miller told the Wall Street Journal, "and Antarctica is literally the canary in the coal mine for this stuff, so (the film) sort of had to go in that direction."

Literally?

About Wall-E:

Some conservatives, though, appreciate the film because it doesn't make capitalism the soul blame for the consumerism that brought down the planet

Really? I don't recall there being any government depicted in that film at all. My impression was that, by the time everyone left Earth, Buy-n-Large was running everything.

"The Incredibles?" But Craig T. Nelson made that movie! I thought he simply starred in it, but nobody's ever helped Craig T. Nelson out with ANYTHING.

5/11 here. Guess I'm a moderate.

Judging by the list, Republicans know as much about good children's films as they do comedy.

Beware, if you fail to trumpet the Right's agenda with sufficient zeal then you're a commiehomomuslim.

You could have made things a lot easier and created a site called "List of movies Conservatives think have a liberal agenda" and just have one single link that goes here and call it done.

Only ones that I like, and I mean really like and would watch again, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and the Muppets. The rest I either haven't seen or didn't really like enough to want to watch again.

d-fens99: 1. The Iron Giant
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Incredibles
4. Ice Age: The Meltdown
5. Happy Feet
6. Wall-E
7. Battle for Terra
8. Astro Boy
9. Cars 2
10. Happy Feet 2
11. The Muppets

Rate your libbiness on how many you've seen. I'm 8/11 libbiness.

6/11. A number of those came out after my kid had already moved on to more PG-13 fare.

In the past, I've been to both a major Tea Party conference and the largest Christian retail convention in the world. In both, I noticed that there is this demand from the customers to replace something popular within culture with their own "safe" Christian/Conservative equivalent. Even though there is not much of a reason for it, people will go out and make a Jesus/Conservative version of secular objects like action figures, candy, facebook, youtube, wikipedia, animated films, stand up comedians and so on and so on. Since the Christian products are all really redundant sub-quality pieces of merchandise, they would trump up charges that the secular version of the product was somehow not "pure" enough to justify themselves making the Jesusy/Tea Party version of the product. (IE: The Muppets has a liberal bias, so I made Veggie Tales. Or facebook is run by contributors to Soros, so they can't be trusted. Use RightFriendSpace instead.)

What I think is really going on is that the extreme popularity of cultural objects that push every slightly progressive ideas (like how The Muppets is a spiritually and politically secular film, and facebook gives people new freedoms in communication) not only makes fundamentalist's own ideologies look glaringly archaic and irrelevant, but for a fundamentalist to concede to the popularity of some sort of even slightly progressive piece of merchandise means that they are admitting that they are losing power in the cultural landscape.

Some people, instead of looking at how things are changing and adjusting their world views instead double up on their ideologies and try to grip on their illusions with power with bleeding fingernails. This leads to stuff like lashing out at seemingly innocuous secular pieces of entertainment like Sponge Bob and The Muppets.

Kumana Wanalaia: Beware, if you fail to trumpet the Right's agenda with sufficient zeal then you're a commiehomomuslim.

Oooooo "trumpet the rights agenda". That sounds like gay sex.... Little boy blue, come blow the rights horn. oh yea.

/It sure could be made into a quite popular toe tapping movie, just be careful of the sticky floors afterwards.

Incredibles is awesome; how could anyone be mad at that movie?

I expected things like Fern Gully (environmentalism) or Chicken Run (rights for farm animals and revolution against authority) to be on here.

But Wall-E? The Iron Giant? Freaking Finding Nemo?

Just out of curiosity, what animated films actually portray true conservative values?

/One thing's for sure: Not Animal Farm.

it doesn't make capitalism the soul blame for the consumerism that brought down the planet;

What.

Jonathan Hohensee: What I think is really going on is that the extreme popularity of cultural objects that push every slightly progressive ideas (like how The Muppets is a spiritually and politically secular film, and facebook gives people new freedoms in communication) not only makes fundamentalist's own ideologies look glaringly archaic and irrelevant, but for a fundamentalist to concede to the popularity of some sort of even slightly progressive piece of merchandise means that they are admitting that they are losing power in the cultural landscape.

But that's not what it says on Conservapedia.

Jonathan Hohensee:

worth the read.

Err, subby, it doesn't say liberal agenda, it says political agenda.

Happy Feet is like Ferngully. It definitely has an environmental message(which is considered liberal, though I believe conservation is neither liberal nor conservative by ideology), and the article mentions this.

The Incredibles, if you read what they stated, was embraced by conservatives for its message. There is absolutely nothing liberal about The Incredibles, it's a movie about how you should not hold people back because of their abilities, despite the population on the whole frowning on that advanced ability. Basically, being average on purpose sucks.

One could argue that the Incredibles almost has an Objectivist message. The whole thing about the government forbidding these exceptional people from exercising their power because they are a threat to the status quo is pretty much right out of Atlas Shrugged

its a bit naive to assume that films don't reflect the beliefs of the people involved.

d-fens99: Rate your libbiness on how many you've seen. I'm 8/11 libbiness.

9/11 I must be flaming.

EyeballKid: "The Incredibles?" But Craig T. Nelson made that movie! I thought he simply starred in it, but nobody's ever helped Craig T. Nelson out with ANYTHING.

The article merely says political agenda: Incredibles is being noted for a conservative message.

I do find it a bit disconcerting that humans are so often the villains in kids' movies. I mean, that just doesn't seem healthy. The little bit of "Happy Feet" is saw while channel surfing definitely seemed to fit that category.

Some of those selections are just weird, though. "The Iron Giant" is anti-gun? Really? I'm a certified gun nut and I farking love that movie. I just don't see it.

fusillade762:

About Wall-E:

"Some conservatives, though, appreciate the film because it doesn't make capitalism the soul blame for the consumerism that brought down the planet"

I, for one, am appalled that this cornucopia of insidious filth could be allowed in the U S of A. That being said, we really are out of copywriters who can write, aren't we?

secularsage: I expected things like Fern Gully (environmentalism) or Chicken Run (rights for farm animals and revolution against authority) to be on here.

But Wall-E? The Iron Giant? Freaking Finding Nemo?

Just out of curiosity, what animated films actually portray true conservative values?



Animated gay porn maybe.

4/11 for me.

These are kids films with perceived or, in some cases, blatant, political agendas. "Happy Feet 2" is so full of politics that it forgets to entertain and is shaping up to be a flop or al least a major under performer. "Cars2" was a snooze fest because its politics were so obvious. There is NOTHING wrong with a political angle in a film but, in both adult and kid movies subtlety, works a whole lot better than a neon sign.

"The Incredibles" as the article points out, was widely embraced by conservatives.

It's not a new phenomenon. Bambi: anti gun and anti forest fire. Charlotte's Web: pro vegetarian. Pinocchio, "Tell the truth." Aesop's Fables. We like the tales with which we entertain our children to empart a lesson. It's not brainwashing just because you don't necessarily agree with the message.

I wonder what Republicans think about this movie. (new window)

It's based on this short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (new window)

SundaesChild: It's not a new phenomenon. Bambi: anti gun and anti forest fire. Charlotte's Web: pro vegetarian. Pinocchio, "Tell the truth." Aesop's Fables. We like the tales with which we entertain our children to empart a lesson. It's not brainwashing just because you don't necessarily agree with the message.

What's even funnier at times is the reverse. For example, TDK is constantly brought up as an example of Americas refusal to back down from threats. Of course they completely overlook the fact that the lead character is a vigilante terrorist.

I saw Iron Giant on its opening weekend, Saturday morning. Tons of families there with little kids.

A whole bunch of the parents dragged their kids out when Hogarth started talking to the Iron Giant about souls. It was pretty funny to watch. I laughed ;)

Flappyhead: SundaesChild: It's not a new phenomenon. Bambi: anti gun and anti forest fire. Charlotte's Web: pro vegetarian. Pinocchio, "Tell the truth." Aesop's Fables. We like the tales with which we entertain our children to empart a lesson. It's not brainwashing just because you don't necessarily agree with the message.

What's even funnier at times is the reverse. For example, TDK is constantly brought up as an example of Americas refusal to back down from threats. Of course they completely overlook the fact that the lead character is a vigilante terrorist.

Terrorists are called that because they terrorize civilians.

The criminals are frightened of Batman, the civilians love him.

secularsage: I expected things like Fern Gully (environmentalism) or Chicken Run (rights for farm animals and revolution against authority) to be on here.

But Wall-E? The Iron Giant? Freaking Finding Nemo?

Just out of curiosity, what animated films actually portray true conservative values?

/One thing's for sure: Not Animal Farm.

I'm pretty sure that they like the part in Bambi where the mom gets blown away by a hunter.

peterthx: Flappyhead: SundaesChild: It's not a new phenomenon. Bambi: anti gun and anti forest fire. Charlotte's Web: pro vegetarian. Pinocchio, "Tell the truth." Aesop's Fables. We like the tales with which we entertain our children to empart a lesson. It's not brainwashing just because you don't necessarily agree with the message.

What's even funnier at times is the reverse. For example, TDK is constantly brought up as an example of Americas refusal to back down from threats. Of course they completely overlook the fact that the lead character is a vigilante terrorist.

Terrorists are called that because they terrorize civilians.

The criminals are frightened of Batman, the civilians love him.

They love him, except when they hate him. And even when they hate him, he's still not a terrorist, just a vigilante.

peterthx: Flappyhead: SundaesChild: It's not a new phenomenon. Bambi: anti gun and anti forest fire. Charlotte's Web: pro vegetarian. Pinocchio, "Tell the truth." Aesop's Fables. We like the tales with which we entertain our children to empart a lesson. It's not brainwashing just because you don't necessarily agree with the message.

What's even funnier at times is the reverse. For example, TDK is constantly brought up as an example of Americas refusal to back down from threats. Of course they completely overlook the fact that the lead character is a vigilante terrorist.

Terrorists are called that because they terrorize civilians.

The criminals are frightened of Batman, the civilians love him.

Criminals are uhh you know. Civilians too. Paper books, including dictionaries, are not that expensive these days buddy.

/slashyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

peterthx:

Terrorists are called that because they terrorize civilians.

The criminals are frightened of Batman, the civilians love him.

None of that changes the fact that Batman has made himself the sole arbiter of what is right and wrong and has shown little regard for severely damaging public and private property in order to meet whatever ends he feels is justified. You can argue public opinion all you want, the fact remains he's breaking the law.

235 years ago, bunch off seditious, gun-toting, treasonous bastards got together and started a shooting war in order to overthrow the government. You are living in the tattered remains of what they replaced it with. Cartoons? Cartoons with agendas? I'll admit, they're all worse than any given Warner Bros. piece from the day, but.. cartoons?