Comments on: Top Ten Worst Animated Movies For Kids

By: Neil Dunsmore

Neil Dunsmore — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:36:29 +0000

Okay, I think a lot of people here are misinterpreting what this list is about, and heck, maybe I’m the one who’s wrong here. I don’t see this as a list bashing these films so much as it’s saying they’re inappropriate for children but could still be enjoyed by adults without the need for kids as an excuse to watch it. Anyway, here are my thoughts on each:

10) This whole thing was just one big oil bath. It had to be on here.
9) This was also Bluth’s most well-written (And yet American Tail’s my favorite, fancy that) and I often like to think it was made for adults as opposed to young kids. I think the only reason it was rated G was because any movie that had no inappropriate language our drug references around that time had to be given a G rating.
It was rated PG for a reason folks. I still consider this one of Disney’s most underrated.
7) Honestly, this one wasn’t all that inappropriate. Sure, it had spirits and the devil, but to be honest, I didn’t find any of them all that creepy.
6) Disney’s most underrated hands-down! I love this film as it takes its audience very seriously, and while the ending does get across a rather bad moral about appearances, I like how different it is. It’s not often that you don’t see the main character end up with the girl. Also, it gets across one good message: That you don’t need a wife to enjoy life to its fullest. I’m not saying people shouldn’t fall in love. Heck, it’s part of the reason we exist, but not everyone in the world needs it.
5) Yeah, it shouldn’t be a mystery to anyone that anything by Ralph was intended for adults.
4) Ah yes, this one’s far more controversial than NIMH and that’s why I love it so much.
3) A work of art if I say so myself. Also, I’ve never considered this a kid’s movie, but the fact that PG-13 didn’t exist back then can be misleading.
2) Again, obvious.
1) I wanna see this one so badly!

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:48:44 +0000

You are a tasteless moron! These are some of the greatest animated films of all time! Just because your mom dropped you on your head as a baby doesn’t give you the right to trash great art and our childhood!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:46:19 +0000

I don’t know, some family friends showed me and my sister “The Brave Little Toaster”…Not sure which was worse, the cars getting crushed to death as they reminisce about their glory days, or the appliance store owner who laughs evilly as he wields dripping forceps over our helpless alarm clock friend.I didn’t sleep for weeks after that.

By: Ally

Ally — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:29:22 +0000

What about When the Wind Blows?
It details the effects of a neuclear attack on an elderly couple in a humorous yet disturbing way.

By: Britney Stairs

Britney Stairs — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:57:08 +0000

Okay, i am so freakin tired of people saying that the Hunchback of Notre Dame is a bad movie 4 kids!!! its my fave movie of all time, and my 8 year old sis loves it too. Plus, if your kid is sad about the ending, get the dang sequel! He gets a girl named Madeline, played by the marvelous jennifer love hewitt. though the sequel is not as good as the first, it is great! And most kids dont get the song that frollo sings anyway.

By: Sophie

Sophie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:34:21 +0000

I love watership down. Its a bit traumatizing but i <3 bigwig.

By: Karma_Is_A_Bitch

Karma_Is_A_Bitch — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:13:30 +0000

Transformers: the Movie was the first time an animated film freaked me out. It wasn’t just the killing of my favorite characters (damn near ALL of them, for those who haven’t seen it) but the fact that it happened in the first half hour or less. It was like the decepticons, who were noted for accuracy-of-fire somewhat worse than the A-Team, decided that the new plan would be “Aim.” The scene where Ratchet’s eyes turn red and the smoke starts pouring from his mouth like robotic blood was just brutal when I was a kid, and Optimus’s death was the first movie death to affect me. Seriously, watch a few old episodes, then switch to the movie, and understand how brutal this was to a kid who’d grown to love these characters… which is also why this movie is so classic to me. Cheers!

By: Mel. Star

Mel. Star — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:13:37 +0000

I guess the moral of the story is - some kids can handle some issues better than others. There seems to be a common theme of death in these 10 movies. It makes some kids uncomfortable. Other kids, like me, didn’t really give it a second thought. They stabbed Meleficent in the heart with a sword in Sleeping Beauty and I didn’t bat an eye. They crushed the evil queen in Snow White with a 20 ton rock after she fell off of a cliff. Next.

There were other kids who were crying.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame came out when I was 10, and I loved it (not because it kept well with the book, because we all know it did not) but because it was different and in a lot of ways went against the tired Disney formula. It’s still one of my favorite Disney movies.

I also watched All Dogs go to Heaven when I was six and wasn’t effected one way or the other. I’ve grown out of and away from the movie, but I remember really liking it.

I think parents/adults see something is animated and automatically think it’s aimed at kids, regardless of the rating (i.e. 95% of Japanese anime). Then they just unleash it on their kids.

This never ends well.

By: Mara

Mara — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:32:43 +0000

Well… the thing is you have to let kids deal with issues like death. Most of these movies were based on books that are reading level third or fourth grade.

If you want to shelter your kids from tough realities; fine.

But that doesn’t make these “bad” films.

A “bad” film is Battlefield Earth.

Maybe if you called this the Top Ten Traumatizing Nostalgia Cartoons?

Maybe. I see your point, but that’s like not letting your kid read Ender’s Game, or Charlotte’s Web.

Shit happens. Kids have to learn to deal with it.

By: ladymerelda

ladymerelda — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:10:18 +0000

the movie the Bear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_(1988_film)
that is the WEIRDEST movie for kids. I watched it constantly (along with BeastMaster ha thats a whole nother weird story tho)
anyways.
the Bear has almost no speaking parts, it starts out following a young grizzly bear after a GIANT rock falls on his mother’s head and KILLS her. He then wanders along, befriends an older male grizzly that hunters are after, and so the fun begins.

favorite part in the movie is where the little bear eats a “magic” mushroom and trips out.

that movie for sure messed me up! =)

you MUST WATCH IT! its amazing!