I wish I could look back at what I wrote and say that I was being too harsh, that the movie is actually better than I give it credit for being.

But the more I think about it, the less I like it. Mickey Mouse Wars truly is as bad as I thought it would be, and then some.

Your white-knight friends love it because the Mary Sue at the heart of it all is what they've been brainwashed all their lives into thinking a woman should be. Men like you and me hate it because that is precisely the kind of woman that no man in his right mind would touch with a ten-foot barge pole.

I've been asked to see it tomorrow with a friend. I do so dread it now. I fear most of the ride home I shan't speak much.

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This is the best part of your post. I realized long ago, most of the thousands of movies released every year I never will see. Signal to noise ratio. Pre-release date, on this movie, I noticed the large number of TV ad's for this film. This use to be a reliable indicator of a movie's depth of quality, plot, story line and overall measure of weather it was good. If the critics loved it, and lots of TV ad's, this was a real stinker. When I found out that this movie is like 90 % of network TV, aimed at women, designed to appeal to women and offend men like me, noise. TV ratings are dropping. I continue to hear that a new hit show is on such and such network.

"Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Psalms ch37-36."

After the present generation has died out, in the distant future, NetFlix, Hulu and a dozen other streaming services will have a choice of thousands of great movies. In the mix will be the several episodes of of "Star Wars". In the future, a farther will sit down with his son and remember his own youth and that he must guide his son on the path of what it is to be a man. The farther will remember episode 4. He will pick 4. The farther will remember this scene.

Aunt Beru: Where are you going?

Luke: Looks like I'm going nowhere… I'm gonna finish cleaning those 'droids.

Aunt Beru: [after Luke leaves] Owen, he can't stay here forever, most of his friends have gone. It means so much to him.

Uncle Owen: Well, I'll make it up to him next year, I promise.

Aunt Beru: Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him.

Uncle Owen: That's what I'm afraid of.

At the end of the movie, the son will have a lot of questions. We all dream of a son that will succeed us. We all dream of a son. I personally think 7 will be on the streaming movie list for a very long time. A generation or two. But, Homer, Shakespeare's Cesar, Henry V, Napoleon and dare I say Luke Skywalker, time less.