Editorial: Animated films appropriate for children are those that are innocently whimsical, mischievous perhaps, but not threatening.
Evidence (Since)
Animated films appropriate for children are not threatening.
New animated films aimed at adults have dark themes such as poverty and despair.
Conclusion
Such films cannot be considered appropriate for children.
Evaluate
Huh. I was going to watch an episode of Love, Death & Robots with my niece. I guess we'll watch Shrek instead.
There isn't a conclusion indicator in this argument, but the final sentence follows a common form:
Premise Indicator - Premise - Comma - Conclusion
The premise indicator "since" is followed by a premise. That premise is followed by a comma, which is followed by the argument's conclusion.
If we just look at this premise and the conclusion, we can see a missing link. The premise describes new animated films aimed at adults, but doesn't make any claims about them being appropriate or inappropriate for anyone. The conclusion jumps to a claim about these films not being appropriate for children. "Not appropriate for children" is a new idea in the conclusion.
The conclusion would follow logically if we connect the information in the premise to the new idea in the conclusion with an assumption like this:
However, there's a second assumption to consider. The first sentence in the stimulus connects directly to the conclusion: it's about films being appropriate for children. Because it connects directly to the conclusion, we can treat it as a premise. This sentence states that animated films appropriate for children are not threatening. That's a conditional statement:
appropriate for kids → ~threatening
The contrapositive of this is that threatening films are not appropriate for children.
threatening → ~appropriate for kids
We already know that new animated films aimed at adults have dark themes. If we assume that "dark themes are threatening," and combine this with the two existing premises, that would also allow the conclusion to follow logically:
New animated films aimed at adults have dark themes such as poverty and despair. Dark themes are threatening. Threatening films are not appropriate for children. Therefore, new animated films aimed at adults are not appropriate for children.
Goal
Look for an answer which states that dark themes are not appropriate for children or that dark themes are threatening. Beware of answers that are illegal reversals or illegal negations of one of these assumptions.