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No fuck that I don't care if it's a kids' film or story or fucking tv series or anything. Being targeted at kids is NEVER an excuse for a sloppy piece of shit for a story, or being completely incoherent or campy or overall horrible.

If you're producing a story or film or game or anything targeted at kids, and it's nothing but garbage, you're conditioning them to like garbage and they will always like garbage and then the rest of us have to deal with the evolution of this garbage. Saying 'oh well it's for kids therefore it doesn't matter' is the absolute laziest and dismissive excuse you can pull out of the book regarding any form of media.

Also, that's not even a good example. They even make fun of the underwater fires in the show. The entire point for a lot of the nonsensical stuff in Spongebob is there specifically to be nonsensical and zany, and that was there from the get go. There's reasons why the things that happen in Spongebob happen. And for the things that flat out don't make a damn bit of sense, it's pointed out and mocked throughout the show.

It's about believability within the world presented. Spongebob gives us an idea of what to expect and how things work in the first handful of episodes alone, and sticks to these general rules. When things don't make sense in-universe, it's picked fun at.

James and the Giant Peach doesn't do this. It kind of gives you somewhat of an idea of how things kind of work not really then doesn't abide by any in universe laws and the story is all over the place. It takes itself very seriously. Everything's presented in a way that makes it seem like it knows what it's doing. Not to mention, it's not even that light hearted of a movie. It's pretty damn dark, which only makes this whole thing worse.

I hate plot holes so large they bust a hole in the fabric of time and space and that's pretty much what came out of this movie/story/whatever.

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