by Courtney Sell

So here's the thing. The main ingredients (pun very much intended) in this specific "family" film are seemingly harmless, high-fructose free and most likely would have been Andy Rooney-approved in the later years of his delusional senility. Yet, below the tasty, gooey surface, a harrowing nightmare exists chock-ful of imagery depicting child slavery, torment, humiliation, ghostly phenomenon, and subtle incestuous overtones. If this is beginning to read like a description of a Pasolini film, you wouldn't be wrong in believing so. However, it is not. Instead of clogging the arteries of children across the globe with sugary breakfast cereals, Twinkies and Girl Scout Cookies, a film touted by the Disney Channel in the late 80's and early 90's as being "fun for the whole family" decided to go another route in child abuse. In my best Rod Sterling impersonation I give you "The curious tale of...The Peanut Butter Solution.