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Check out the following comments from readers who saw
It's Tough to Be a Bug!
at Walt
Disney World. First, from a mother of two from Mobile, Alabama:
It's Tough to Be a Bug!
wastoointenseforanykid.Ourboysare5and7[years
old], and they were scared to death. They love bugs, and they hated this movie.
All of the kids in the theater were screaming and crying. I felt like a terrible
mother for taking them into this movie. It is billed as a bug movie for kids, but
nothing about it is for kids.
But a Williamsville, New York, woman had it even worse:
We almost lost the girls to any further Disney magic due to the 3-D movie
It's
Tough to Be a Bug!
It was their first Disney experience, and almost their last.
The story line was nebulous and difficult to follow—all they were aware of
was the torture of sitting in a darkened theater being overrun with bugs. Total
chaos, the likes of which I've never experienced, was breaking out around us.
The11-year-oldrefusedtotalkfor20minutesafterthefiasco,andthe3½-year-
old wanted to go home—not back to the hotel, but home.
Most readers, however, loved the movie
,
including this mom from Brentwood, Ten-
nessee:
It's intense like
Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
but mostly funny. The bugs are
cartoonlike instead of realistic and icky, so I can't understand what all the fuss
is about. Disney has conditioned us to think of rodents as cute, so kids think
nothing of walking up to a mouse the size of a portable toilet but go nuts over
some cartoon bugs. Get a grip!
PARADISE PIER
WRAPPED AROUND THE SOUTHERN SHORE
of the kidney-shaped lake, Paradise Pier is
Disney's version of a seaside amusement park from the Victoria era. It covers about
one-third of Disney California Adventure and contains almost one-third of the attrac-
tions.
Paradise Pier was the focal point during the early phases of the refurbishment
activity recently completed at DCA. The biggest addition was Disney's
World of Co-
lor Nighttime Spectacular,
an evening show complete with more than a thousand wa-
ter fountains shooting water hundreds of feet into the sky, synchronized to music and
Disney film clips. A new Little Mermaid-themed dark ride, as well as the removal or
retheming of several existing attractions and restaurants, rounded out the rehabilita-
tion of an area that was once widely considered an eyesore.
