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** The reviewer who said it was too dark does have a point; the movie was the third entry in a series with a large child audience that was otherwise completely right for them. The dark elements were downplayed seriously in the trailers, and nearly nobody expected the absolute [[Tear Jerker]] the movie turned out to be. However, while it is a good point to mention in a review, it isn't a good reason to give the movie a negative review.
*** Sure, the first two movies were for kids... except that they were made 15 and 11 years before the third one. Many viewers got the definite impression that ''Toy Story 3'''s intended audience was all the people who had seen and loved the first two ''Toy Story'' movies as children -- and who have later grown up to about college age.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929011231/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rant-You-Are-Not-Too-Cool-For-Tangled-21914.html This article] about ''[[Tangled]]'' pretty much sums up the entire concept of the trope by categorizing viewers into four mindsets: "Cartoons are gay and for little kids", "That's pretty good... for a cartoon", "Movies come in all ranges of quality and whether it's animated or live-action shouldn't make a difference in how it's viewed", and "OMG PRINCESSES" (that one being exclusively filled by girls between the ages of 2 and 12). Odds are, if you're reading this page, you probably fall into category 3, and good for you.
* A segment on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' on February 24, 2011 discussed how no animated movie has ever won an Academy Award, on the basis that the Academy thinks that animated movies are always just for kids and only for kids, despite knowing that Oscar-winning actors and actresses have contributed to these films as far back as Disney's ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', which even earned Walt Disney an Honorary Oscar. Despite being largely for kids overall, some films today have more adult themes and issues that kids wouldn't recognize, but the Academy refuses to see things that way.
* Currently, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111020032208/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/smoke-free-org-targeting-rango.html SmokeFree.org is targeting recent animated films] for... having characters that smoke in them. The fear is that the very young and presumably witless audience will immediately want to smoke or do drugs upon seeing a fictional character (regardless of [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking|alignment]]) do so. The specific films include ''[[Deranged Animation|Rango]]'' and ''[[Tear Jerker|The Illusionist]]''. Even In at least one report, the clips they used were of the Bowler Hat Guy from ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]''. You know, the villain of the movie who never even smokes over the course of the film. Yeah...
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