As you well know, I am a third grade teacher. Third grade= 8/9 year olds. Eight and Nine year olds whose favorite tv show is family guy and whose favorite movie is Alien vs. Predator. What is up with all the crap parents are letting their children watch? I'm thankful for Hannah and the other Disney shows, but this is not enough for these kids. This I blame on the parents and I will tell you why.
Have you ever seen the movie "Milo and Otis"? It left a lasting impact on me from Elementary School. Ms. Ironmonger, my first grade teacher, first showed me this video and it changed my life. It's a live action movie with a cat and a pug dog voiced by one rambunctious English narrator. Milo and Otis leave the farm, find each other again, and give live birth to puppies and kittens. Along the way, the English narrator voices many other animals such as a sea turtle and bear in the exact same voice as Milo and Otis. A low budget, G rated, touching film. When I saw this available for purchase I knew at once I had to own it. I would be the teacher to change a childs life! But would they like it? Had the youth of America become too corrupt? Oh no friends. Oh no. They laughed, gasped, and shouted advice in unison! They hoped for rain so they could have the opportunity to finish this cinematic treat during further indoor recess. Kids and animals folks. I implore the movie machine to pump out a few more movies like Milo and Otis and a few less inappropriate but attractive to children cartoons.
Please enjoy this especially bad part where the narrator uses awful dialogue (that the children loved) to portray a conversation between a pug and a sea turtle.
This experience lifted a layer of bitterness from my cold teachers heart and gave me a big warm fuzzy.
1 comment:
few things...first, glad to know I'm not the only one to snag that out of the $5 movie bin. Second, I don't remember it being as low budget as that clip showed (which is only further proof that kids & movies of today are FAR more advance). Third, (and this might be the adult in me analyzing too much), how on earth did they get that pug to stand on a rock in the middle of the water and then ride on a sea turtle's back!?
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