Happy Feet movie has an environmental message!

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I am so cross I could scream....

My FIL manages to 'procure' films before they are released on DVD - or at the cinema, and so got 'Happy Feet'

However he amd MIL watched it and gave it a crap rating because "the story is all about the enviroment, and there's not much dancing"

1. This thread is not about pirate films
2. This is not about IL bashing - although I struggle with this point
3. It is about the attitdue of my DC's grandparents towards our planet.

They think my efforts at living a greener lifestyle are futile. They laugh at my composting, recycling, the reasons I want to use washabe nappies "thngs are much easier now with disposables", and at my efforts to use more environmentally friendly products and they dont like my low energy light bulbs.

When I pointed out that they may not be here much longer but GC would be my FIL replied basically saying that countries in the East will never give a damn, so why should he.

I personally feel any film aimed at young children, which has an underlying message about the environment is a good thing - but they are so bloodyminded they can't see past it not having much fecking dancing!

It combines with the "it doesn't matter what I do - I am only once person of millions" attitude that people have

I know - like voting for Lib Dems!

However I digress - because of what they saw they decided to give the film back rather than let the GC watch it - which is fine with me as I am also anti-piracy (unless Johnny Depp) But what goves them the right to decided whether my DC's should learn about the planet. As soon as that movie is out to buy (legally) I will be buying it out of sheer provocation towards them!

Shameless Bumping as I wont to hear others point of view!

I also get silly comments about it all being a waste of time, nobody else bothers so why should you etc. I live in Italy where very few people are even vaguely environmentally minded (unless you go to the Austrian bit)and they all think I'm a freak. Everyone without exception is shocked that I'm vegetarian and so is my DD, I keep getting offered an array of products with a worringly radioactive aspect to clean my bathroom/kitchen floors etc and people are awed into silence by the fact I use cloth nappies and refused to use soap or other products on my baby until after 6 months. The trouble with the Italians is that they're at times excessively house proud and will use the most awful purple glowing toxic products to give them that oh so shiny floor that they see on TV and never mind what goe down the drain. Most of my friends were horrified that I let my baby crawl on a floor that hadn't been first scrubbed with antibacterial disinfectant first (better a few germs than a lorryload of chemicals in my view). Oh dear, I probably sound really manky and smelly. I'm not, honest!

Lol about the in-laws, mine are much the same but they don't dare make too many comments as I just blind them with science.

Oh goodness, I've just gone off on a complete tangent!

What I really wanted to say is that yes, I think it's important that children start getting bombarded with environmental messages as early as possible. I certainly see no harm in it, certainly no more than the "family values" messages present in so many of the earlier Disney films and no one ever criticised those...