posted 2017-11-04 09:38:02

I remember Fern Gully as a movie about trees and a pretty fairy that saves them. I never owned it as a kid, but one one of my friends did and we’d watch it often together. It was odd, looking back, in that at my house the only movies we owned were The Disney ones and this friend of mine owned a whole mess of other animated movies and I remember even then silently judging her taste. Like I could tell they weren’t as good, cinematically.

But I always sorta like Fern Gully because the fairy was pretty and I had the hots for the blond human guy.

Anyway this morning the middle child isn’t feeling good and on those occasions she just wants to snuggle and watch tv so when I saw FG as an option on the Netflix I thought, oh, she’ll love this !

They all did, but I’m pretty disappointed. Krista is a rip off of Tinkerbell and Ariel, there’s a fat white male fairy that looks exactly like the Sultan from Aladdin, and the blonde animated hottie is basically Prince Eric in a wig. I was surprised to hear Robin Williams voice as some sort of bat though.

My oldest boy is pretty enchanted with Krista and I can’t decide if it’s because she’s half nude or if it’s because he wants to pretend to be a fairy. Which is a whole other story.