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Over at Moviefone’s Inside Movies blog, a lively discussion is going on about animated family films. Jason Newman is concerned that many recent movies like Wall-E](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/wall-e/28116/main?icid=movsmartsearch), Battle for Terra](Battle for Terra (2009) - Movie | Moviefone)and the upcoming Astro Boy](Astro Boy (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) may be presenting young audiences with a hidden left-wing agenda.
I’ve watched a fair number of children’s films for someone who has no kids of her own, and I’m not seeing the “blatant socialist themes” to the extent Newman is. For one thing, I disagree about Wall-E. Saying that Wall-E promotes liberalism is insulting to conservatives, as though they are the equivalent of the slothful humans on the spacecraft. “Don’t be wasteful” isn’t a liberal agenda, it’s something most parents try to teach their kids. Astro Boy won’t be in theaters until Oct. 23, so I can’t say if it really contains “Marxist” themes and story elements. However, Newman says these story elements are played for laughs, and it strikes me that laughing at Communism is traditionally a right-wing practice.
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