Great quote from Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) in his favorable 1971 review of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory':

"Nine out of ten children's movies are stupid, witless, and display contempt for their audiences, and that's why kids hate them. Is that all parents want from kids' movies? That they not have anything bad in them? Shouldn't they have something good in them -- some life, imagination, fantasy, inventiveness, something to tickle the imagination?

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