Fontaine's Film Wipe

My metric for judging children's movies is simple: they should appeal to children. This seems like an easy standard, but I've noticed in recent children's films an unfortunate tendency to veer into storylines that are too complicated for a 42 year-old, let alone a grade schooler. Such is the case with Disney's latest animated fiasco, "Strange World," a film so overladen with political and eco-conscious themes that even the most hardened D.C. lobbyist would blanche at watching it. I won't summarize the storyline of this one, simply because I couldn't follow it. It has something to do with a family discovering an unlikely form of bioelectrical energy, which mysteriously loses its usefulness and needs a replacement. The adventure that follows is similar to Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, from which Disney's source material is taken. Nothing wrong with that in principle, but "Strange World" abuses Verne's 1864 scienc