Imagination

I hate Milo and Otis.

It is the worst and most boring and full-of-animal-cruelty movie I've ever seen.

When I watched it and Milo was fighting a little crab that actually grabbed on to his mouth, I thought "That's mean, making a cat fight a pinching little crab,"
But by the end I was thinking,

"That's mean making that little dog actually fight that BEAR. That's mean making that cat actually go DOWN A WATERFALL in a wooden box. That's mean tricking these animals into hurting themselves constantly and fighting with bigger animals."

Then I moved on to "That's mean making us watch a cat give birth and now, oh HOLY CRAP! Watching that DOG give birth. And why do children love this movie where animals are fighting and a dry British SUPER boring man is narrating and doing all the voices of different animals?"

This movie was similar, I believe to The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. This is a book that all children believe that they love. But if you ask a child what the book is about they will say "A little boy and girl run away and hide in a museum."
Just like if you ask a child what Milo and Otis is about they will say "A puppy and kitty go on an adventure."
When in fact those are terrible descriptions of what happens in either. Kids like the imagination they personally have but must, I'm sure, hate the dry stupid adult narrating and they must hate The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and they must hate Milo and Otis.

At least they would if they knew what was happening.
And adults would hate them if they rewatched/read them instead of relying on their fond and incorrect childhood memories.

p.s. Every single person who worked on Milo and Otis, except maybe the narrator, was Japanese... I wonder what we can learn from that...