Targeted at a Younger Audience, but Not Really for Them

[The Burgomaster]

When I was a kid (late 1960s early 1970s), childrens movies were, for the most part, really aimed at children.  Of course, you had the sleazy distributors like K. Gordon Murray who would scour the earth for cheap kiddie movies and then release them in dubbed versions year after year amidst cheesy saturation advertising campaigns.  Back then, many theaters had "kiddie matinees" on Saturdays and Sundays . . . you'd pay about 50 cents to see one of these foreign imports.  These days, I think most "childrens" features need to appeal to adult audiences so parents won't feel so bad about shelling out big money to bring 3 or 4 kids to the movies.  Imagine paying for a full price ticket to see something like this?  (By the way, I just ordered this on DVD-R from Something Weird - - I saw it in the theater with my mother when I was about 6 years old).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRn723ACAYY