Please- be kind to people with special needs!

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2016)

My 4 year old daughter loved this movie. She loves fish, and she knew all the characters' names before watching it. My daughter has autism, and hyperactivity disorder, but she was able to sit through most of this movie, which makes the movie a success in my book! The only thing that disturbed me and may keep me from buying this movie on blue ray is the way Gerald the seal is treated by the other two other seals. They refused to share their rock with him, even when he was sad about it. They tricked him several times, yelled at him, and treated Becky the loony loon better than they treated him. They could have made fun of the fat seal, but that would have been mean,yes? So to get laughs, which the children in the audience did, they zeroed in on the seal who was not the same as them. In a time where society is more aware of bullying and trying to take measures against it, where the affect of bullying is being splashed across every media outlet, and where more children than ever are being diagnosed with special needs, I feel that movies do not need to generate laughs by having characters be cruel to each other. There is never a reason to treat another cruelly, and Pixar needs to find another way to create a funny scene.