No review is a replacement for actually watching with your kids, but it's getting harder and harder for parents to avoid the trap that has all parents in the house working and the tv filling in as babysitter, so ...Recent movies that seemed relatively indoctrination-free and were fun:
Despicable Me 2 (very funny)
Monsters U
Wreck-It RalphHotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Recent movies that are heavily liberalized:
Escape From Earth
Para-Norman
Fun Size (not really appropriate for kids or pre-teens at all, but is marketed and billed as a kids' movie)
Beautiful Creatures (again, more for older teens, but marketed to the Twilight age-group)
A fun movie that I've had mixed feelings about is The Croods, not because it is overtly liberalized but because I think that the cautious conservatism of the namesake family is meant as a caricature of conservatism. Your kids are more likely to get out of it a celebration of individual innovation, but the filmmakers seem to mean it as an allegory of "coming around," "evolving" views, and getting over conservative "phobias" and prejudices.
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