[mikester]

Cartoons these days are more about licensing product (character themed toys, games, clothes, furniture, condoms, whatever) than entertainment. Business is good apparently.

We have really enjoyed the Pixar movies including Toy Story. The toys have not been terribly popular with my kids but they love the characters. Both the 20 month old and the 5 year old saw the 3rd movie and it was intense towards the end. The 20 month old probably just didn't get it (he was sort of dozing by then) and the 5 year old got it but was handling it okay. I was surprised - the 5 year old is kind of a chicken $#%! with scary situations. He'll run out of the room from the TV he it is something he even thinks is remotely scary. One of our DVDs has a 'chub chubs' short on it and the title screen came up at one point and he ran out of the room screaming. The wife and I didn't know what to make of it at the time (he was probably 2 or 3).