To think that a lot of kids' films are in unbelievably sad??

[KittyMcAllister]

Just sat here watching 'Dumbo' thinking how tragic it is - a mocked, bullied child, whose mother is imprisoned for trying to protect him? And don't get me started on 'Up', 'Bambi', 'Finding Nemo'.... They're all sob fests. So many kids' films are based on abandoned children.

Btw I know this is isn't the most important AIBU...

I went to see 'Brave' the new Pixar the other night. I cried like a baby!

Got to add The Lion King to the sad film list

I saw UP at the cinema, with a friend, no kids with us and I sobbed my heart out at the begining of it, so bloody sad!

UP is a killer i swear i was doing the sobbing noise disney films have orphan children horrible step sisters murdered parents
its just a bundle of laughs but they do come out on top in the end don't they , I still can't watch bambi

YANBU

They are AWFULLY sad, most of them make me cry.

Xpost fruitysummer i watched up at home though even DH had 'something in his eye'

DD1 (4) won't watch films - they are always scary/too sad for her. I blame Toy Storey 3, her first film, which was quite terrifying.

She has watched Rapunzel on DVD once. Loves the doll/hair/dressing up etc - won't watch DVD again. Too scary.

She quite like the Smurfs and thought Rango was excellent - Rango to me was quite disgusting (but brilliant), but it didn't have the terror/sadness aspect & so she loved it.

I wonder how long it will take her to get over this - when I suggest watching a film she says no thanks! too scary.

Oh yes Lion King - boy's uncle murders his father but blames boy so he flees into exile, meanwhile everything goes to rack & ruin?? But hakuna matata eh!!

Toy Story 3 is like a horror film for children.

Bridge to Terabithia ... had me blubbing (albeit discreetly) at the weekend.

Still haven't watched Bambi, and won't watch Watership Down.

yes annoys me alot! that's why i like ponyo and studio whatsit films. they're just mad!

A very long time ago I watched The Bear - god that was sad. Don't even get me started on the psychological damage Watership Down did to me as a child!

Ponyo, when the mum leaves the kids/fish to rescue the old people from the tsunami... The only time I have ever heard someone actually sobbing, not just weeping in the cinema.

I agree Finding Nemo is terribly sad :(

I sobbed and snuffled quietly in the cinema at the Princess and the Frog when the firefly was killed DD1 looked at me like this .
However I defy anyone not to weep at Jessie's Song in Toy Story 2

'when she belonged to me' sniff sniff

Not sure about the Lion King actually. Simba is really sad, panick, runs away, is found by two "comical characters" who get him to start singing and he's right as rain after about two verses. Hakuna Matada! I'd like to think that if I had just seen my Dad trampled to death by a herd of stampeding wildebeest I would stay upset for a bit longer.

A slight theme in Disney films though. Mowgli feels utterly betrayed and abandoned (wrongly though, the ungrateful little bugger) and this is soon turned around by some singing vultures, and everything is totally OK again!

Anyone who tried to cheer me up out of bereavement/abandonment by encouraging me to join them in a jolly rousing chorus might discover my fist in their gob

yeh that's be panics

watership isnt really a kids film though
but my mum thought it was a film about fluffy bunnies

Just remembered 'Charlotte's Web' as well. Profoundly upset me as a child!

I always cry at Jessie's song too, and the DCs look at me as if I am something peculiarly odd. They can't stop watching me. Heartless the lot of them!

When I went to Disney donkey's years ago, there was a 'history of disney' film. In that film it said Walt Disney had said 'you can't have the sugar without the salt' when asked about all the sadness in his films. It then went on to show all the sad bits in their films (this was in 1990)....I was emotionally crushed by the end of it

I cried at UP and I also recall blinking very rapidly at ET to stop sobbing.