"The trick there is to honour these characters that are beloved, but in a movie that feels entertaining for the kids who we might bring to the movie – and humorous for those parents who bring their kids.
The audience also feels entertained by the film for the first thirty minutes or so.
"Do you feel entertained?" he asks, half gladiator, half joking after a round of emotionally testing videos.
He lacks the verbal flair of, say, Dennis Miller or Chris Rock, and, watching him, you rarely felt entertained or enlightened — you felt as if you were being poked in the sternum by a brainy bully.
Even though people feel entertained, even relaxed, when they multitask while exercising, or pass a moment at the bus stop by catching a quick video clip, they might be taxing their brains, scientists say.
Love them or hate them, they're entertaining, perhaps because it feels like gawking at a terrible road accident... or hoping something will go wrong (like Miss Carolina's infamous answer in 2007 about Americans and maps).
Fewer and fewer people believe it, feel informed or entertained by it, or find themselves compelled to seek it out.
Richardson said it felt good to entertain the women and take their minds off the reality of incarceration for a few hours.
"I watched a film called Earthlings years ago and it helped to upset me into veganism, so I thought what I could do was direct a film that was funny about the same subject so that people could watch it and feel wildly entertained as well as feeling mildly upset," Amstell laughs again.
But calling it entertaining feels cheap.
