It all started in the summer of 2013. The movie Frozen had just come out and I took my then three-year old daughter to see it in the cinema. She instantly fell in love with it, and so did I. Fast forward to 2017, I now have three kids, and have seen pretty much every animated children’s movie made from Toy Story, through to Lego Batman. We, as a family, love watching these movies together. I find myself getting completely immersed in them. I learned how to play the opening piano riff for Frozen’s ‘Let it go’, and I have found myself listening to the Trolls soundtrack, by myself, in the car. Sure, it would make sense to have the Trolls soundtrack playing when the kids are also in the car, to entertain them, but I am equally happy to listen to it by myself, as the music is really just that good. Most recently, my eldest daughter and I went to see Beauty and the Beast at the cinema, and I am now loving the fact that I can watch these kinds of movies with her, that she is now getting older and needs more challenging films to watch. My four-year old son is now getting in to Star Wars, which is just super! Does this make me a ‘kidult’, or, are movies like Zootopia, Trolls, and Frozen just really good films in their own right? Last year I found myself having a conversation, with another adult mind you, about the merits of Zootopia, and it’s commentary on race and class. Maybe I’m reading too much in to it. As a further extension to this phenomenon, I also love building Lego with my four-year old son. He is obsessed with Lego and Star Wars, so, it makes sense that he now has a collection of Star Wars Lego – sometimes, I’m not sure who enjoys building the Lego more, me or him. Are we as adults, simply letting our inner child out through our own children, or are we just spending quality time with them. It’s hard to distinguish the two. All I know is that I can’t wait for the next kids film to watch, or the next Lego project to get stuck in to.
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