to ask what is wrong with Disney movies?

[bubbleymummy]

A lot of people have mentioned hating them on recent threads and I'm just wondering why.

I think they are lovely, why would you hate them ?

YABU lol I like Disney

I think it's the whole merchandising tie-ins that people hate rather than the films themselves? I like the traditional fairytale ones but not sure about the American teen ones

I haven't seen the threads you're talking about, but I'm not keen on any organisation or job that trades on their good image.

In that I mean like clowns/ice cream vans etc who are presumed to be above reproach because of what they do.

I see Disney/Mcdonalds in this way for some reason.

It might be wrong as they're just commercial enterprises, but it's what I think.

They're sickly sweet crap. And anyone who goes to Disneyland is insane and gullible. Why would you want to spend £5k chasing a bloke in a mouse suit round a theme park for four days? I'd rather hack off my head.

mmsmum - so do I! :) Have just seen lots of people saying that they didn't.

Hate them.

Children being separated from their parents/parents dying/families going against each other.

Dumbo's mum being locked up has never left me, messed me up for life. Think the nations issue with gingerness may also stem from that film.

I like new Disney, Pirates of the Carribean, etc but NOT the 'classics'. They're horrific, nasty sories.

And a happy ending doesn't make up for the trauma. Like putting a plster on a severed leg.

I actually don't like the idea of Disneyland tbh and I don't really get caught up in the merchandise - I just like the movies! I'm glad I'm not alone. I thought I was in fruit shoot territory! :)

The classics are a bit horrific and the songs are bloody awful. Sleeping Beauty is terrible and the witch is petrifying.

I hate what Disney represents. It goes deep into a post modernists' theory.

I actually do know what you mean about the earlier movies MoonGirl. I still get choked up when Bambi's mum dies and when Dumbo's mummy gets locked up - although they do live happily ever after at the end! :) Also, the singing in Snow White really gets to me....

Some people don't like the messages it sends out to girls. These short videos are decent illustrations of this.

The witch in Snow White is pretty scary too....hmmm. I do like most of them though!

They're fiiiine. Noones ever died because of a Disney movie...

We just get too worked up about absolute pish in this country...there are more important things y'know?

i'm glad my two dcs didn't buy into all that americanized crud

But Dumbo's mum is NEVER realeased.

And he goes to her as a baby and she cradles him with her trunk through the bars. :(

All of us are mums. Imagine being locked up away from your baby.

Why would anyone create such a horrid film.

Why???

Hmm Msrisotto - I'm not sure I agree. Surely the idea with Beauty and the Beast is that it is what matters on the inside that counts - not what you look like. Isn't that a good message?

I like Disney, the newer films particularly.

Yes she is! At the end she is sitting on the train and Dumbo flies down and she wraps him up in her truck and he gives her lots of kisses! :)

I hate the fact that they romanticised and sanitized some incredible stories-and put a copyright on them.

They ought to be shot at dawn.

I love Disney films. Can't wait for the new Cars to come out in the summer. I am sad.

I like Disney films but have started trying to get DD to watch them (age 2.5) and they always set her off into floods of tears at the sad bits (which then sets me off too). She has been traumatised by some of them, talks about them weeks later.

But in spite of minimal exposure to Disney, she is still very aware of Mickey Mouse, Nemo, Buzz Lightyear, etc.

I don't like the Disney TV channels for the merchandising aspects and Americanisms. I think a film/DVD is different because it's not an everyday thing (or at least not whilst I can put the remote control high enough for her not to reach it).

We will probably do the Disney thing (Disneyland, etc) when DD is older, because DH and his family did it and he wants her to have the same.

Love everything disney

Took (disney hater) DP to Disneyland paris recently (he comes out in hives at the mere thought of dancing doll) but even he has even said that he had a good time and would go again given the chance. He has converted

Some of the more recent films have good messages. Mulan is pretty cool, and Rapunzel comes across well, as does Pocahontas. I would definitely put money on Rapunzel if she were to be in a fight with Snow White, but you have to look at them in the context of the time they were made.

GwendolineMary - we did Disneyland last year. It was AMAZING. Definitely better than hacking your own head off.