To wonder why the bloody hell Watership Down (the film) is rated U?

[TheCunnyFunt]

There is no way in hell I would ever allow my 4 year old to watch it! It is brutal

tuiles I love this film! Where is the real watership down?! Hoe do I not know this place exists!!!

Learn something every day. There you are cupcake... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down,_Hampshire

Link didnt work... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down,_Hampshire

Sorry not working. Google real watership down and comesup with it. Its in Hampshire. Something i didnt know so thank you cupcake. www.worldreviewer.com/travel-guides/literary/the-real-watership-down/15517/

I loved, loved, loved the book. I read it several times aged 8 or 9.
I must have seen the film aged about 10? Wasn't overly disturbed - except for the scene where Blackavar(?)'s ears are torn -, but cutesy it ain't. Won't be showing it to mine any time soon, and they are 8 and 10.

I had that glossy book too. Stills from the film on black pages.

YANBU. I would rather my 4 yo played Grand Theft Auto

It's a horrible film. I developed a brief case of religion as a child after watching it! Seriously, my father used to go to church on a Sunday night, but my mum and I weren't religious, but after seeing the film on a Sunday afternoon I suddenly decided to go with him and see if a spot of praying would make me forget the dead rabbits

We also had a book with pictures from the film and I was so traumatised by the whole experience that I hid it down a gap between the bookshelf and the wall, where it was found many years later when we moved.

It's scarred me for life!

I do love the song though!

my awful, narcissistic mother took me to see this when it came out. i was 6. i remember wondering why all the rabbits were flying around when mother leaned in and stage-whispered 'THEY'RE ALL DEAD, YOU KNOW'.

i had nightmares for weeks.

I've never seen Watership Down, but I am assured by DH that it's absolutely traumatising.
Sounds like he's not the only one that thinks it's brutal!
I only need to hum the Bright Eyes song for him to block his ears evil
For me, the most traumatising film was Return To Oz. What kind of child hating weirdo ever thought that was suitable for kids?!

This was one of my favourite books as a child. I loved the film. There's a lot more in the book though that they left out of the film. I can't watch it now though without crying.

I watched it at school when I was 8 - I was in floods :(

Its definitely not a U...I have a love hate relationship with this film made me sooo sad I cried everytime even when I got older and my daughters cried when they saw it...but somehow I still like it

I've never seen it all the way through. It's too brutal for this delicate flower. Oddly I loved the children tv series Animals of Farthing Wood (equally chilling lesson on how nature really works) but at least there are some heart-warming bits in there too.

I would say same of Bambi too, shoudl be x rated.

return to oz, yes equally as odd.

I sobbed through this at the cinema too. When did it come out - I'm not sure how old I was?

I've seen 15 certificate films less violent and bloody than Watership Down, and it's certainly worse than the 12 certificate Harry Potters. How that much blood can be in a U is beyond me, although it was the vision of the rabbits piling up and suffocating in the bottom of the burrow that always haunted me.

The film fits with the tendancy of the era to casually traumatise kids. I saw this public safety film at school when I was about 7, from then on whenever I saw a screen and projector being set up I broke out into a cold sweat in case it was that film again. I am not joking.

It's a U??
I remember seeing it at primary school and found it really scary. U should be for things like Peppa Pig.

R0nJ0n

I can remember films like that at school. There was one about playing on farms. One kid fell on a plough that had great big spikes, and another fell under the wheels of a tractor. I'm sure there were others about the dangers of playing on building sites and near slurry pits etc.

Scarred for life.

This is the farm one, it's called Apaches. I agree, it's bloody terrifying too. There's also one about not playing near water called, I think, Dark Water.

The book of Plague Dogs traumatised me as an adult. Dogs with holes in their skulls running around with their brains poking out...ugh.

Tarka the Otter....Fox & the Hound ... so many tears

Oh god yes.. I cried for days after Tarka the Otter.. And Greystoke.. And the Fox and the Hound.. And Where the Red Heather Grows (or whatever it was called)., pain pain pain

Happy I think it's Where the red fern grows. I saw it many years ago.