Barbara Lippert's Critique: Prehistoric Power

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So the Super Bowl is over, and wasn’t that a slap upside the head! (Or a rock in the eye. Or a rip of the chest hair.)

In an especially violent year, I think the reason that the Blockbuster mouse and the Bud Dalmatian did so well in consumer polls is that the animals were, well, warm and fuzzy. In the midst of all the hitting and cynicism, viewers were desperate to connect, to feel something.

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