Finally, a movie that is Ava-appropriate!

From what I have read about children and TV viewing (which is not that much), children before the age of two cannot process the images they see on a show into a logical story sequence. To them the images are just that, images. I would beg to differ, maybe, at least in Ava's case. For Christmas, Ava's great-grandmother gave Ava "The Seventh Brother," a movie about a dog that gets left by his family by accident in the woods, and is adopted by a family of rabbits. We let her watch it one day, and the moment the dog gets left and tries to get the attention of his owners by barking, whimpering, and then crying, Ava burst into inconsolible tears. We thought that it maybe was the sad music.
Then it happened again, at a babysitter's house. Ava joined other children in watching "Hephalumps and Woozles," a Winnie the Pooh movie. I guess there is a part where the parents get trapped in a cage and are calling for help or something? Ava stopped crying only when the situation in the movie was resolved, from what I was told. "March of the Penguins" also put her in tears, and Josh and I were ready to give up on finding any movies that we would watch while Ava was awake.
However, Josh gave me "The Happiest Millionaire" for my birthday. (Hopefully all of you have seen this intriguing musical) Sooo....NO TEARS! Only happiness and dancing:0) So if you are at a loss of appropriate movies for your family, make sure to avoid "The Seventh Brother," "Hephalumps and Woozles," and "March of the Penguins," and instead reach for movies about opinionated, boxing millionares on chocolate cake diets, whose pet crocodiles freeze and daughters elope.