It's hard to find kids movies without hidden woke bullshit. Here's a list of good movies we've found that aren't infused with DEI and subversive themes. I'd like to hear your suggestions too.
**Frozen** - No mud skins. The girls are feminine, and the men masculine. It's a princess story that ISN'T about the princess becoming a girl-boss. Prince charming ends up being a villain, but the actual good guy is also white. Comic relief character and some side characters have jewish vibes.
**How to Train Your Dragon** - Extremely good, with no DEI or jewish culture that I can detect. A coming of age / hero's-journey type story.
**Cars** - No politics or DEI. Story of a natural winner getting knocked down to earth and learning to be a better person. There is one part where some groupie girl cars flash their "headlights" at MC which I found a bit distasteful. There's a related series called "Cars on the Road" which is equally good.
**Planes** - Like cars. Good kids movie, no hidden woke politics. It's a story about starting at the bottom and fighting relentlessly for success. A few of the planes are foreign, but not used to push a DEI message.
**The Iron Giant** - Story of boyhood adventure and discovery. Good story overall. Negatives: MC has a single mother. The bad guy has Irish ancestry, "detective" archtype. The good guy, father figure is a younger "hip" artist. the kind that wears cloth robes with a ying yang symbol on them. There is a "weapons are bad" theme. But soldiers and their general are not depicted as evil. They fight the giant but then stop when they realize he's not a threat.
**Wreck it Ralph** - More weird themes than the other ones. The main little girl is Sara Silverman, and the main villain is also jewish. But the 2 main guys Ralph and Felix are white with white values. A little off, but I found it acceptable overall and the kids like it.
**Wall-E** - Anti-consumption is the theme. It's like a kids introduction to dystopian sci-fi. The fat helpless humans are various races but the movie doesn't focus on it. Negatives: The "female" robot is feminine in appearance, but not in her actions. The MC Wall-e is physically weak and cowardly, but he does try to save the girl, and ultimately sacrifices himself to try to save humanity.
**Inside-Out** - It's about emotional development and dealing with hard times as a kid. A lot of comedy. No DEI really. MCs imaginary friend is jewish but there aren't any off themes. Edit: just remembered, several times when the mom is mad at the dad she fantasizes about some Brazilian helicopter pilot she could have been with instead. Don't love that.
Favorite movies as a kid (up through 12 or so):
- Treasure Planet: Holds up to rewatching, no jews or muds, sounds like a hokey treasure hunt but is a giant future space battle with cool 'believable' tech, good for inspiring young smart minds. Coolest arc IMO is the main villain 'adopts' the MC, becoming an ally by movies end (and there are tons of movie details where he 'intentionally' keeps the MC alive etc.
- Titan AE: Doesn't hold up as well on rewatch, but was super cool as a kid. No jews or muds, cool space battles with 'believable' future tech, another 'inspiring' young future engineer's imagination. Themes of betrayal with redemption.
- Star Wars: My father rented this from Blockbuster one day on a whim on a random school night. After the movie, he says 'What'd you think?' to which I responded with an explosion of excitement at how awesome it was. He thought I might have been too young to enjoy it - give it a shot!
- Stealth: Such an unassuming movie but it rocks. Rogue AI warplane wreaks havok in ME, then takes damage, and must team up with MC (who was in the process of being assassinated due to a coverup of the AI plane program) to save them both. No 'real' depth, no social commentaries, just a good sci-fi movie with no jews or muds. MC does have the stereotypical 'black best friend who dies 1/3 of the way into the movie'. Plot is followable for 10 year olds etc.
Non sci-fi childhood favorites:
- Lion King: This movie, like star wars, has excellent examples of strong male role models, and shows 1) the impact of the positive 'leadership shadow', and 2) how you can still be undermined even if you 'do everything correctly'. Loved it as a kid for the plot, loved it as an adult for the incredibly rich themes and generally because everything about it is great.