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?

The advice in the past when writing children's novels, was first get rid of the parents. And it was so children could have adventures without parents intervening. The only other option in most adventure type stories is have parents around who are deeply neglectful and allow their children to go places they should not.

GiGi is about a girl being groomed to be a courtesan/prostitute though, which makes “Thank heavens for little girls” superlatively wrong.

Watch the 2003 live action version. Peter is still a dick and it's got some iffy moments with Wendy but you get Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook.

Annie I had never seen before but my daughter wanted to watch it a while ago. It didn't stay on long but unless I missed something it's about a rich man taking his pick of the little girls from the local orphanage

Fame.

I remembered it as kids jumping around on cars and singing.

It is so much darker than that

1st rule of writing children's fiction - kill the parents. Frees the kids up to have adventures.

I watched Grease with DD when she was about 11 or 12 - sime of that is not appropriate! And Fame i made her watch and she thought it was really boring

Susiesue61, I loved Grease when I first saw it, then when I was older I realised that Sandy had to become a racy tart to get his attention. Horrible movie.

Never really liked grease. But hate the ending now as an adult. Such a bad message.

Talking of having to completely change your image to get a boy reminds me of “she’s all that” with Freddie prince junior. It’s loosely based on my fair lady but at high school. A jock takes a glasses wearing geek and gives her a make over to be prom queen for a bet. This includes ditching her glasses, obviously. As a glasses wearer it reinforced to teenage me that I was ugly and would never get a boyfriend. Which I felt , because of movies like that, was the only way I could be valued as a person.