Wow! Peter Pan is awful to watch as an adult!

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My DD recently watched the CBeebies Peter Pan and loved it. So I thought as a Father’s Day treat i’d stick a movie on and let her dad sleep. So rented Disney’s Peter Pan. I last saw it as a kid so barely remember it.

I’m taken a back at how racist it is! Appalling! Also at what a utter bitches tinkerbell and the mermaids are. And how awful Peter Pan himself is. I’m kind of rooting for Captain Hook.

What kids films have you watched as an adult and realised are terrible and should be consigned to the history books?

16 candles is awful as an adult

Yep, 16 Candles is a shocker when you re-watch it. Don't think I've ever seen Peter Pan.

Ooo never seen 16 candles. Off to look it up.

I watched Joseph and The Technicolour Dreamcoat recently, having not seen it since I was under 10. It's fairly inappropriate with female dancers in nude illusion costumes and a very sexy dance between one of Jacob's sons and an apache dancer (who then leaves with Jacob, alluding to sex/prostitution). I didn't notice any of that as a kid and I love the songs, so still a good musical just poor choices!

Pinocchio is one that doesn't sit right with me. The whole "Pleasure Island" bit makes me think of grooming.

Yeah Joseph is weird as an adult.

I cannot understand Peter Pan! Does Wendy dream it all? How come the parents all get to keep the lost boys at the end?? I’m utterly confused whenever I watch it. Not sure whether it’s all meant to be some wild dream or just a very far fetched story.

@SlimGin

My dd found Joseph on Netflix and we literally are 5 minutes into it......

The Aristocats - the depiction of the East Asian cat made me want to crawl up my own arse. Dreadful racial stereotyping.

Yes the aristocats. I loved that as a child but of full of stereotypes. The Siamese cats are particularly cringe inducing now.

I didn’t like Pinocchio as a child so can’t remember that bit.

DD is only three so only seen a couple of Disney movies. But this has put me off showing my kids all old school Disney movies.

Short circuit

The King and I

Watership Down. I had nightmares about it as a child, I don't think I can bring myself to relive it

Yes, the native American bits are particularly offensive.

My dc's school showed it on the last day before Easter and I was very unimpressed!

Bugsy Malone. Creepy as fuuuuck.

Also Peter Pan. I watched a kids performance of it while I was pregnant and howled from start to finish.

But 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' is absolutely superb.

Big! Adult woman... Child boy.
Most 80's kids movies were based on the premise that adults were totally absent from their children's lives. Not sure whether it reflected a norm due to American work culture and lack of affordable childcare... Or whether it was a device to allow for kids adventures but all of my favourite films involved the premise there were no adults around.

Pretty much all Disney covered stories involve a dead parent (usually mothers) which is a bit grim really.

I am instructing lawyers. Never smile at a lawyer.

Peter.

Is that the one with Julia Roberts woefully miscast as tinker bell?

Dreadful film.

Pretty much all kids stories are about orphans, from Cinderella to Harry Potter.

Big is so wrong watching it now!
St Elmo’s fire I loved when I was younger but now it’s like they are playing dress up pretending to be grown ups.
I love dirty dancing I really to but Patrick way too too old for her!
Also Pretty Women i can enjoy as an adult but I have to not question any of it.

Woman!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is deeply creepy. Watched it last week and was shocked! The Child Catcher is terrifying and there is that weird "cootchie cootchie" scene between the Vulgarian King and Queen which has strong sexual/BDSM undertones. I also find the gurning Grandpa extremely creepy. I loved it as a child! But now

Big. Small boy and grown woman. Not ok.

Meanwhile, sur le continent, Maurice Chevalier is cruising the Bois de Boulogne looking for leeetel gurlz to take home and get drunk....

Peter Pan is racist, sexist etc but the original book/play is also utterly heartbreaking to watch as an adult. It’s about child death and loss of course. Setting aside the parts that are now politically unacceptable, this in itself makes it hard to get through.