Each month, we watch a children’s movie with the Earthquakes and analyze it for problematic tropes and devices that reinforce cultural messages on bigotry, supremacy, and general shittiness.

Sometimes we find great movies on self-advocacy, healthy masculinity, and smashing the kyriarchy! But most of the time, children’s movies are shit.

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2020

Ages 5-8

• Onward
• Frozen II
• Ratatouille
• Tangled
• Wall E
• Nezha
• The Good Dinosaur
• Robin Hood
• Sword in the stone
• Inside Out
• Monsters v. Aliens
• Mary Poppins
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Gnome Alone
• Neverending Story
• Neverending Story II
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman
• Little Mermaid
• Little Mermaid II
• Sleeping Beauty
• Wreck it Ralph
• Up
• Spies In Disguise
• Mulan
• The Addams Family
• Over The Moon
• The Addams Family 1991
• Storks
• Brave
• Zootopia
• Monsters Inc
• Klaus
• Jingle Jangle
• Muppet Christmas Carol
• Home Alone

2021

Ages 6-9

• Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Flight of Dragons
• Soul
• Kung Fu Panda
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Guardian Brothers
• Latte & the Waterstone
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Flora & Ulysses
• The Muppets 2011
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• Descendants
• Secret Magic Control Agency
• Wolfwalkers
• How to Train Your Dragon (2 & 3)
• Upside Down Magic
• Despicable Me
• Despicable Me 2
• Trouble
• Mitchell vs the Machines
• Harry Potter 1
• Boss Baby
• Luca
• Boss Baby 2
• The Lorax
• Unicorn Adventure
• Secret of Nimh
• Raya and the Last Dragon
• Wish Dragon
• Vivo
• Ferdinand
• Princess and the Frog
• Firedrake
• Nightmare before Christmas
• Next Gen
• Hocus Pocus
• Big Hero 6
• Book of Life
• Enola Holmes (watched with the 9-year-old only)
• Pachamama
• Jingle Jangle, but the whole thing
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)

2022

Ages 7-10

• Encanto
• Ron’s Gone Wrong
• Nezha
• Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Lego Movie
• Lego Movie 2
• Lego Batman
• Xico’s Journey
• Turning Red
• Re-watching Inside Out with older kids
• Advice & Group Discussion + Revisiting Onward
• The Hobbit (1977)
• Alice in Wonderland (1951)
• Chicken Little (2005)
• Sonic The Hedgehog & a bit about Sonic 2
• Spirited Away
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Shrek
• Ice Age
• Finding Nemo
• Ponyo
• Rumble
• Emoji Movie
• Sea Beast

 

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