Imagine the kind of child who tears through a store, or a restaraunt, or any other place where they should be behaving and while everybody else is staring at them in horror, their parents are smiling fondly and saying "oh, isn't that cute." Imagine having to watch a full-length movie about a group of children who act like that for the entire length of the movie. Imagine how you would react if these monsters were real? Probably not too happily, but as an audience, I think people are actually expected to be more like the type who would go "oh, isn't that cute?" No!
I'm not a child hater. I even work with children, kindergarteners as a matter of fact, which I believe are around the age of what these children are supposed to be. Except the film versions don't act like real children. Instead, they run around like misguided...I don't even know whats, spouting lines written by adults who probably haven't been children for about thirty years and therefore have no idea how they can really behave "cutely" while still acting semi-appealing. They don't even seem to realize that two six-year-olds(or whatever) would not know how to use a rowboat, much less be peacefully gliding in the middle of the lake singing "You Are So Beautiful," which kids really wouldn't know, or if they did, they probably wouldn't like. Children also wouldn't know how to build a clubhouse and its in really poor taste they their parents never ever seem to be around. In fact, if the little rascals were real, they would probably be thrown in foster homes, due to the utter lack of supervision provided to them. But in movie-land they're not. They just go on happily, torn between hating girls or loving them, fueding with the new rich kid(Blake Ewing, who is assumingly supposed to be their age but looks about 14) and being in some go-cart race, as if those really exist today. They also get into lots of mischief, like the other boys sabotaging Alfalfa(Bug Hall) and his girlfriend's lunch, and again terrorizing the girlfriend's ballet recital which had very very slapsticky results. And not getting punished. Who would punish such "cute" kids as these? Ugh.
A complete waste of time