To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

[Picklepower]

DD is 6 and we watch quite a few films together, mixture of old and new. Last Halloween I was so excited to watch a film from my childhood, decided against hocus pocus but went with Casper. Well, turns out not once but TWICE Eric idle's character shouts BITCH at Carrigan. (She's is tbf but a bit much for a Pg film).

Just sat down to watch Charlie and the chocolate factory (from 2005!) and mike teevee says 'even a retard could figure it out'. What the hell!

Any other corkers you've come across watching back your childhood films?

The Princess Bride? As long as you don't mind R.O.U.S.... Or a little bit of sword fighting... or the weird albino that sucks the life out of the man in black...

When we did a production of Grease at my convent school, that lyric was discreetly rewritten as 'She's a really pretty wagon!'

'Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee' was omitted entirely, and I don't think our music teacher figured out what the 'putting up a fight' and 'she was good, you know what I mean' bits of 'Summer Nights' were actually about.

I will say my Rizzo was spectacular, despite a few omissions -- I think I had to sing 'Say I like them when we dance' instead of 'Press against them when we dance'.

And the girl playing Kenickie had a brief fling with the girl playing Frenchie.

I put on Ace Ventura for my kids, and swiftly turned it off, forgot about the sex scenes and then all the trans stuff. Don't know what I was thinking 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

I think it was Back to the Future that I was shocked to realise there were so many ‘shit!’ yells in it.

Such a good film though.

Why were you watching Grease at age 5 ?

OMG not B word!!!

I grew up watching horror movies and still love them. Am now 54 and never traumatized. My kids grew up with all Disney movies and Simpsons , sadly for me don't like horrors. I don't remember any movie in childhood where I was shocked with language. Us 54 year olds are hardcore because we were raised in the 70s 👍

Not a kiddie film, but Ace Ventura hasn't aged well. I loved it as a teen, but watched it a while ago and thought the end was quite shocking - Ace (& the entire police force) vomiting and crying at the thought of kissing a man!

I've watched most of the oldies with my kids and the only one that stood out was Ghost busters but I think that's a PG anyway. have a pretty relaxed attitude to swearing, it's more violence, sex and scary crap that I watch out for. I had totally forgotten the scary bits in Ghost busters, don't ask me how!!

One of his clients gives him a blowy at the start of the first film, and he gets caught shagging the tribe princess in when nature calls!

Agreed, and we wonder why some people have no resilience if they're upset watching Home Alone....

Yup can’t got wrong with The Princess Bride.

Well, unless you have a speech impediment.

It was a joke 🤣 🤣 I love home alone but I don't like people standing on nails, makes me cringe. Jesus Christ. Feel free to contribute something interesting to the thread

Pretty sure it used to be a U rating, it's Pg now but this was the 90s. I also had an older sister very in to musicals

Well horrible characters use horrible words. That’s how characterisation works.

I am in my 60’s now. When I was in secondary school we had a weekly film club. It was 20p to get in. We watched Hammer horrors,Vincent Price in the Dr Phibes films, James Bond, Zulu and Ice Station Zebra are some that come to mind. I used to watch all sorts with my Nan she loved a bodice ripper and the old King Kong films. She used to make us homemade toffee which we sucked on watching them. Happy memories.

TV but Grange Hill was bloody shocking back in the day with the kids throwing racist insults at each other, at shopkeepers etc.

To be honest the woke sanitised dumbed down kids films of 2025 are more cringe than a bit of home alone violence. This thread is ridiculous

Fat shaming in the goonies? I forgot about that bit and the whole wierd kissing thing 😳

Flight of the navigator was a hit when the kids were younger for months my middle son used to say why are you leaking and find it hilarious (he was 3)

Jack with Robin Williams where he’s a 10,year old but looks like a grown man. A where a large part of the movie focused on him buying porn magazines for his friends and they all read it - They were supposed to be 10 year olds in the movie. Really creepy and sickening if you ask me!

In lady and the tramp, there’s a lot of pearl clutching over the “racist” Siamese cat song, but why? Is it because the cats sing in Asian voices?

Good grief, some of you really are utterly humourless. What woke sanitised dumbed down films have you been watching?

And btw, I never said I had a problem with any of these films. We still watch them. It is a point of discussion on a discussion forum, feel free to contribute some memories

We watched Honey I shrank the Kids. Pretty sure the rating was U as I always check.
The teenagers were properly kissing and flirting throughout.
And the neighbour dad was berating his child all the time.

Absolutely love HA, me and ds wince at some of injuries particularly the nail, iron and the heated door handle😂

I wonder what rating, "When The Wind Blows" had in the UK? Google is not being very helpful. That could have turned into a very distressing evening for those who tuned in or rented it from the video shop thinking it was similar to, "The Snowman."