That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

To be fair to Indy, that was a “well, you could come out to the movies with us or we can get you a sitter if you’d rather stay home” situation where she was choosing not to have a sitter more than actively wanting to see the movie.

Well, now that you mention it:

I guess I’ll take it under her authority that this movie exists.  You should have her do an annual best-of list.

I’m particularly aware of this movie because not only did I review it, my grade-schooler daughter thought it was one of the best movies of the year!

That does sound like a great essay, albeit a little on the short side. 

“Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken”

I loved the original Despicable Me because it felt like they were trying to show that a single dad with non-biological children could be just as loving as a married parent with biological children— and because they were the focus, not the Minions, who I’ve always been ambivalent-to-negative about.

I have a similar love…

That would be only a single decade before. It would be more like you performing pop songs from the ‘20s and dancing the Charleston.

yeah and the beatles would have been, like, still quite popular! kidz bop is a different thing.

See, now this really does feel like the AV Club of yore. An article where the writer has clearly had to suffer, significantly, for many many hours, in order to put together a retrospective that’s so much more insightful than the relative crap it’s covering deserves that the contrast is staggering.

I was noting to my nephniecews that the degree to which they’ve been familiarized with songs from forty years ago is like if we grew up loving “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B”. Stuff like that did indeed filter down to us through cartoons, but not to the point where we knew all the words or anything.

There were a lot of Beatles songs that ended up like this, although they got sung in Kindergartens and daycares. I think Raffi did Octopus’s Garden.

it’s one thing to have a parent show you a song as a kid, it’s another to have your association with that song be that it was a song sung by a cgi creature, is more my point. like, that song now becomes a kids song to them.

In some ways, it’s kind of cool. Why on earth does “kids music” exist, generally? Is there really a shortage of regular music that kids can safely listen to? It’s like if there were dozens of G and PG movies out every year that weren’t explicitly about kids, so someone then decided they had to make dozens more movies…

My daughter thinks the minions are creepy and wants nothing to do with them.

Taron Egerton sang an Elton John song as an animated gorilla and then played a live action Elton in the bio-pic.

I’m not sure what this adds to the discussion, but I find it so incredibly bizarre I’m shoehorning it in.

See also the "Now That's What I Call Music" genre 

I mean, a person just going “Buuuuuuuuhhhhhh...” while staring at the camera for 90 minutes would be funnier than Garfield. 

“That would be the Sing series, which tries to turn the studio’s basic-ass music taste into some kind of guiding principle of insincere uplift, all while inching them closer to the platonic ideal of that 100-minute dance-party ending.”