Everyone keeps saying they hope LiLo manages to revive her career, but honestly I think it would be better is she managed to completely recede from public life and get a normal boring job where she can finally emotionally mature. Of course that will never happen but...

These kids look like tumblr personified.

Reminds me of any article about a tragedy where both humans and animals died. Inevitably some idiot comments, "Wow, I wasn't sad until I read that a dog died... :'("

Jezebel is unbelievably dismissive of girls and young women. I can barely stomach articles about young women on this site because half the comments are so disrespectful.

Completely true. Such a waste of a beautiful medium. I think the cultural prejudice that animation = kids' stuff is just too strong for adult animation to ever become mainstream.

This is part of why I hate Disney. Their films are brands, first and foremost. I think you are spot on with the marketing angle.

I like that you are so into painting me as this joyless bitch that you completely twisted what I said to your own end. I said I can experience wonder and beauty, just not through children's cartoons. It is also possible to experience childhood wonder by watching a child experience wonder. Empathy is amazing. I find…

Fuck it, I want that soda purse.

Thanks for the pity, but I am perfectly capable of having feelings of wonder, beauty, and happiness without watching kids' movies. In fact I feel more of a sense of wonder, beauty, and happiness from watching an actual child experience this than from trying to regress to that point myself.

That is insightful, and I do think that it was probably a combination of the traumas of the early 2000's (9/11, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, fears of terrorism, reactionary politics, etc.) and the late 2000's Great Recession that keeps young adults returning to childhood for comfort. It reminds me a lot of the rise of…

But why the attachment to that feeling of being a child? It's become normalized and intensified recently. Everyone seems to want to be stuck in childhood, and I'm not entirely sure it's healthy. I'm not saying that the people commenting on this article are women/men-children, but there are an increasing amount of…

And all the men talking about their wives' clits in graphic detail need to go.

If you're a kid at heart who loves animation, I highly recommend Only Yesterday. One of the most underrated Ghibli films, in my opinion. ;)

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with Disney movies having a lot of nuance (though maybe I'm just prejudiced as I didn't grow up with them). I'd say Pixar, or Ghibli movies have at least five times as much the soul of Disney movies, which always feel to me as secondary to the merchandise they'll inevitably…

That's fair. I like animated films too to an extent (super excited to see The Wind Rises). I briefly studied animation, and I really love it as an art form. I'm just really curious why so many childless adult women I know absolutely love kids' stuff. It seems to be a recent trend, and I am really curious what exactly…

Uhhhhh, there was no need to be so passive-aggressive when I asked a simple question about what draws people to this movie. And I specified childless adults for a reason, because of course people with kids will be consuming children's media. There are plenty of adult films that feature excellent storytelling,…

I don't really follow MTV stars, but I remember a few years ago that Farrah was one of the few girls on that show who ended up doing relatively well. Didn't she graduate culinary school, and was trying to produce a line of hot sauces, or something to that effect? It's such a shame.

Agreed. They need to massively rework their image, but the clothes are great. I don't get how people can say the clothes are ugly when 90% of what I see in their stores is super basic.

I don't want to sound rude, but what appeal do children's movies like this have to childless adults? I just don't understand the coverage of this movie on this site.

Why does Jezebel like to shit all over young women? This whole article boils down to, "Look at this 21-year-old who thinks she's decorating according to her own taste! Poor little thing's baby brain doesn't know what she's even doing!" I'm sorry you're a slob compared to this young woman. I'm the same age, and my…