| Overall: | B |
|---|---|
| Violence: | B- |
| Sexual Content: | A |
| Language: | A |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C+ |
| Run Time: | 96 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 15 Oct 2012 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
Ella Enchanted clearly demonstrates why being perfectly obedient can be a problem. However, being perfectly disobedient would be just as bad-perhaps even worse. When someone asks you to do something, how can you know if obeying their request will be in the best interest of both people?
Ella had preconceived ideas of what type of person Prince Charmont was, based upon how other members of his family acted. Have you ever had an opinion about one person that was based on similar falsehoods?
While at the market, Ella’s stepsisters command her to steal. How can falling under the spell of peer-pressure causes us to make poor decisions?
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About the Reviewer: Rod Gustafson
Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
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