Heh heh. I remember my mom taking me to see the care bears movie in theatres in the 80s (i think?) when I was a kid, I'm embarrassed to admit. Still, it was a lot of fun. I was a very sensitive kid. That one takes me back. It's okay to watch cute sentimental stuff every once in a while IMO. I don't feel that way as much now, but when I was a kid that's how I felt emotionally. And about the one guy imagining ripping the stuffing out of the bears. That's like something one of the neighborhood punk kids at my middle school and high school growing up used to say. I hate you.
The way I see it, Pokemon and Spongebob are the closest thing we have in terms of comparing them to something as innocent and kind and colorful as stuff like the Care Bears and the Last Unicorn. I'm sure there's a whole generation of kids with big hearts and kind demeaners who are still in school, just like people like many of us were when we were that age, who will feel the same way about Spongebob, Winx Club, Totally Spies, and Pokemon and Naruto or Avatar (etc.) 20 or 30 years from now the same way my generation feels about stuff like the Care Bears, The Last Unicorn, the Neverending Story, Short Circuit, (and for the tougher kids back then, Karate Kid, He Man, GI Joe) etc., right this very moment now, looking back on the 80s, what with 20-somethings. People like me may sound tough online, but that's not how it always is.
Some things don't change over generations, as the obvious cliche goes.