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Soul-Scarring Kiddie Cartoons of My Youth
Dec. 18th, 2011 02:12 pmI was looking up the "Dot" movies earlier this week, 'cause I always did like the score to Dot and the Bunny. This trip down memory lane reminded me that many, many movies aimed at kids were, in the 1970s and 1980s, pretty damn bizarre. Yeah, Bambi upset people because the mom got shot, but adults knew this and warned kids my age about it when the Disney Channel played re-runs.
Nobody warned me about any of these:
#1) Watership Down: Utterly terrifying. Thank goodness I never saw The Plague Dogs.
#2) The Brave Little Toaster: Junkyard scene, man.
#3) Dot and the Kangaroo: The adaptation-appropriate 1890s setting gives this a creepier feel than the 1970s sequels, and the Bunyip scene just terrified me. For years. I mean, "hide under the blankets and scream" terrified.
#4) The Hobbit: My introduction to Middle Earth was a cute little play adaptation performed for us at school. On this basis of that, I wanted to see this. Bad idea.
#5) The Mouse and His Child: Not nearly as scary as the book, actually. But still pretty scary, especially whenever the rats came into things. Plus, I'd read the book and knew what "really" happened.
(Honorable Mention) The Rescuers. I could not handle the scene with the skull. Turns out the scene in the book that the film is somewhat based upon is even worse, as it features Miss Bianca sitting on a "bench" made from a shin-bone of a murdered child. Yay, Disney.
Nobody warned me about any of these:
#1) Watership Down: Utterly terrifying. Thank goodness I never saw The Plague Dogs.
#2) The Brave Little Toaster: Junkyard scene, man.
#3) Dot and the Kangaroo: The adaptation-appropriate 1890s setting gives this a creepier feel than the 1970s sequels, and the Bunyip scene just terrified me. For years. I mean, "hide under the blankets and scream" terrified.
#4) The Hobbit: My introduction to Middle Earth was a cute little play adaptation performed for us at school. On this basis of that, I wanted to see this. Bad idea.
#5) The Mouse and His Child: Not nearly as scary as the book, actually. But still pretty scary, especially whenever the rats came into things. Plus, I'd read the book and knew what "really" happened.
(Honorable Mention) The Rescuers. I could not handle the scene with the skull. Turns out the scene in the book that the film is somewhat based upon is even worse, as it features Miss Bianca sitting on a "bench" made from a shin-bone of a murdered child. Yay, Disney.
