Films that you loved as a child but view slightly differently now! (Light hearted)

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Was watching Mrs Doubtfire a film I've always loved with my dcs the other day and looking at it now it's pretty creepy. Maybe I'm just looking into it to much.

I also never realised that grease was about teenage pregnancy ect.

woooah, hang on....the boy in big has sex? I thought he just got 'big' and this woman fancied him but it never came to anything...

I have yet to come across a Disney film that doesn't kill the parents off, have one already dead, kid gets kidnapped so doesn't know parents.

I'm running out of excuses for dd of where all these parents go!!

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - nice rape story line.

Also not a kids film but I loved Kramer Vs Kramer. It was clearly written by a men's rights activist

Watership Down. So scary!

YY to Ghostbusters. The Bill Murray character is a total creep and won't leave Sigourney Weaver alone. Apparently that counted as "winning her over" in the 80s but it just looks like harassment when you re-watch.

Not to mention the fact that he goes on a date with her and brings sedatives!

elspethmcgillicuddy - that's what I LIKED about Mama Mia. She was young and single, so it's not like she did anything wrong, and I think it's lovely how no-one reproaches her for having had a sex life.

The book of Mrs Doubtfire, Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine is actually a lot more interesting than the film. It's definitely implied that the dad is a very very weird guy for doing what he does - and beforehand.

But then I lurve Anne Fine.

And yes to Seven Brides - we watched it at a family occasion a few years ago and it was like a "Who can look more gobsmacked?" competition

Saw Peter Pan with my 5yo recently then had to have a reeeeally fun conversation about why it's not ok to hunt actual people, or to call Native Americans "redskins".

Or "savages". I left out the but about why it's not ok to call black people "cannibals" as that was just written on the map of Neverland and she can't read yet (there's a drawing of a black person in a loin cloth at "Cannibals Cove").

Being bored just googled and found rape in Latin means to abduct. The Roman men used to abduct Sabine women to be their wives.

Yeah, but rape probably means what it means today because after abducting the women, they'd routinely rape them.
Euphemisms tend to become the normal word for the thing they're most often used for.

*I have yet to come across a Disney film that doesn't kill the parents off, have one already dead, kid gets kidnapped so doesn't know parents.

I'm running out of excuses for dd of where all these parents go!!*

Well yeah, stories wouldn't be very interesting if loving doting parents were around to sort everything out. There would be no adventures at all!

Sleeping Beauty. The 'Prince' is actually breaking and entering with a weapon and follows this up with a bit of non-consensual sexual contact.

mrsantithetic Brave has both parents around and the child with them. Of course, the mother turns into a bear for most of the film but I guess you can't have everything. I love Brave.

I never watched The Rescuers as a child, but DD1 loves it (because it's like Paw Patrol, apparently). I find it really horrible how Penny is used by Madam Medusa to get the gem so never watch it with DD.

Sound of music, in particular '16 going on 17'

men that I meet, they tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe.

Most of the Disney princesses were really young:

1937 - Snow White Age-14 ; Prince Florian Age-17/18
1950 - Cinderella Age-19; Prince Henry Age-early 20s
1959 - Aurora Age-15/16; Prince Phillip - earlyl 20s
1989 - Ariel Age-16 ; Prince Eric-18
1991 - Belle Age-17 ; Prince Adam Age-20
1992 - Jasmine Age-15 ; Aladdin Age-18
1995 - Pocahontas Age-18 ; John Smith Age-27
1998 - Mulan - 16;Li Shang - Age-early 20s
2009 - Tiana Age-19; Naveen Age-20
2010 - Rapunzel Age-18 (20 when marries); Prince Eugene/Flynn Rider Age-26 (28 when marries)
2012 - Merida Age-16
2013 - Anna Age-18 ; Kristoff Age-21; Elsa Age-21; Hans Age-23

So a fair few are somewhat odd when you watch them with that on mind!

Thinking back to beauty and the beast .. Prince gaston ( or however it's spelt ) was really creepy trying to force belle into marriage !

Not prince lol. He wasn't a prince !!

Oddly, Bedknob and Broomstick is one that I think actually stands the grown up viewer test quite well. I mean, it's bonkers, but not creepy. It's not particularly sexist, the love story is between two mature and consenting adults, and ok the cartoon island is deeply random and doesn't bear a postcolonial reading, but it's at least not explicitly racist...

(On the Sabine women thing - abducting women to force them into marriage and childbearing, that's definitely rape, that is. Raping women having forcibly married them isn't less rape than just raping them! That's why it's translated as 'the rape of the Sabine women'. 'rape' combines the senses of 'snatch', 'seize', and 'force into sex'.)

I am so glad that I am not the only one who thinks that the lyrics in Grease Lightning (and I quote from the original) - 'you are supreme, the chicks will cream' - are a bit dubious!!
And it's so often done as a school production!!

I was really upset by the horse dying in Neverending Story as a child :)

All Dogs Go To Heaven - sheesh! My mum rented it from the video shop as a treat for me one Friday night when she was going out. Returned to two cowering children

What struck me when I watched Grease as an adult was that we were told that Jan (I think her name was - one of the pink ladies) was fat! She's bloody tiny!

Watershio Down for me as well I'm afraid. It gave me nightmares as a small child and my cousins (who actually bred rabbits for showing) used to watch it CONSTANTLY. The black rabbit used to chase me in my dreams for years. I've since found out it's all about Mixamitosis (possibly spelt wrong but it's late and I'm tired) and is altogether a horrible concept for anyone to come up with, especially someone who's supposedly writing stories for children. I still won't watch it now.

This is a very comforting thread because with one, dire, exception, all the ones people are quoting are films I hated as a child. I found them really scary and/or cruel. Dumbo, death of mum. And the dream. Snow White, lost in the forest. Pinocchio, loss of mum and gets lost. Bambi, death of mum. Mary Poppins, though I loved the books, scary with vile dick van dyke. Thank god I didn't see lady and the tramp until an adult. Nor 101 Dalmatians. No wonder I hate the genre.

The one exception is 7 brides. Which I didn't see until around puberty, accepted as pure escapism, and only as a result of this thread think " whew, dead dodgy". But I still take my hat off to Millie.

Lion King is horrible. I put it on for 3yo DS, went to kitchen, came back to see the horrible uncle murder Simba's daddy then tell Simba it's his fault. DS: "What's wrong with this daddy?" It just gets worse from there with all the Nazi like hyenas marching :O

meringue my DD (who's is almost 3) watched The Lion King for the first time a few weeks ago - my heart almost broke when she looked at me and said "Daddy wake up now?"