Saturday, December 15, 2007

Cherub Wings: Vol. 8: Oops! Sorry (2002)

Cherub Wings is syrupy sweet and perky but Christian tykes will love the cherubs' creative evangelical encouragement about forgiveness. As I said in my review for Vol. 6, Cherub Wings will be scary to some adults. (Take grownups' natural aversion to Barney the Dinosaur and then imagine turning Barney into two angelically sweet if preachy babies. Saccharine in stereo -- on wings!) Young children do respond to such outright emotional ingenuousness, however. Cherub Wings is not for the uninitiated: Children of evangelical parents are the target demographic here -- esp. those who attend congregations that sing praise and worship songs. Parents who do not attend church or who attend a mainline denomination where saying "Praise the Lord!" does not feel second nature will, of course, feel like fish out of water and fail to be parentally supportive of the message presented here. It's truly child-centric and should be refreshing to children under age 7. 3 stars.

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