Children learn effectively from observing others. Watchinganimated movies can have a strong influence on children. In fact,animated movies can be one of education s most powerful tools.However, because children will often internalize and imitate a cartooncharacter s behaviors, the animated movies can play a major rolein influencing the religious and values education of a child. Thepresent research studies the animated movie Caillou. Although thismovie has entertained millions of audiences in Turkey and around theworld, it has also influenced children s religious and values education.Research confirms that the movie does not include physical or verbalviolence or sexuality. In fact, the movie has many positive verbal andvisual messages promoting values with no subliminal messages orsubtext. Furthermore, the hero of Caillou serves as a model leavinga positive influence on the audience. However, Caillou also projectssome areas justifying reasonable concern for the parents. The movie sportrayal of a family is framed from a negative feminist s perspectivewith a reversal of gender roles. This reversal of the gender roles has anegative impact on the audience, and can cause confusion for childrenwho are still trying to form their normal gender roles.