Disney Plus premieres a new 'Lady and the Tramp.' Maybe it helps to hate the 'Dumbo,' 'Aladdin' and 'Lion King' remakes, but I kind of liked it.

The peculiar new "Lady and the Tramp" is fine with me, as long as it succeeds in getting younger Disney Plus subscribers to check out the 1955 original sometime, especially now that it has been deemed potentially offensive. The streaming behemoth has slapped a cautionary label on that earlier film, along with several other Disney movies which "may contain outdated cultural depictions."

For the record: Those five words apply to the overwhelming majority of films (and songs, and advertising, and everything we buy and sell in this country) ever made in this country. That includes half the movies opening in theaters this week.

That's history for you: inconvenient, triggering, provoking us into new, uneasy relationships with things we grew up loving,