Maleficent: Men are bad!

Maleficent.  Frozen.  Watch out, girls.  Men are bad!

I'm not that cynical to think Disney intends that message, but if you look at both movies they sure do seems to crack on men.

In Frozen, Hans sweeps Anna off her feet and gets her to enthusiastically agree to marry him, only to later find out that he planned to kill her off all along and get the throne.

In Maleficent, it gets worse.  With the exception of the crow every man (human at least) in the story is either evil or useless.  Maleficent's childhood crush turns into a bloodthirsty, insane killer and Aurora's Prince Charming turns out to be a hormone-driven waste of time.

In both movies, other women save the day; Elsa in Frozen, and in Maleficent, her fairy godmothers, and Maleficent herself.

There are good men out there.  Certainly Kristoff is an example.  Even Prince Charming seems to have some hope of being worth his screen time when he is shown with Aurora at the end of the film.
But there is a message worth catching: classic dating is worth it.

What do I mean by classic dating?  I mean the way I hear it was before my time.  Yes, before the 1980s. Actually, I don't know when it changed, but there was a time when you could be dating someone, but that didn't mean you were an "item."  It wasn't uncommon for people to be dating several others at a time.  It meant you were interested and going on dates, but not "steady" as the old term goes.  My point is that we need to get to know people better before we get too involved.  Heck, yeah, he wants to kiss you.  You're pretty and it's a great feeling to have someone of the opposite sex notice!  But, like Prince Charming, that may be all there is inside of him.  It goes the other way too.  A girl may seem like the prettiest thing on the face of the earth and you might assume that means she's sweet too.  Yet, you might find out that she's vindictive and unforgiving.

Dating is different now, I know.  But it's worth getting to know someone more before you get too far in.  You may not end up with killers like Hans or Stefan, but there are plenty of other emotionally dangerous traits out there that can wreak just as much havoc.