Watching your childhood clash with your adulthood on the big screen is a very strange feeling.
Growing up in the early 2000s meant growing up with live-action films based on cartoons and shows from the decades of my parents and grandparents that were considered classics. While my knowledge about these characters or the world they inhabited was limited to the TV Land channel and Boomerang, there was joy in the beautifully absurd yet grounded worlds of Cat in the Hat, the live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and 1992’s Beverly Hillbillies.
In an era of gritty remakes and reboots becoming the Hollywood standard, what seems to be the lack of creativity has some reflecting on a time when remakes and reboots were bright, satirical, and campy.
Kinder camp, a genre difficult to define yet undeniably recognizable, emphasized the importance of set design while the film’s messages were clever critiques on society easy enough for all ages to understand, according to ModernGurlz. Her video breaks down the characteristics of kinder camp during its rise and fall in cinema.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
