S/O Things you hate about kids movies

[Anonymous]

I love the book thread.

Here are some things I hate about kids movies:
- too many dead parents
- the way adoption is portrayed

[Anonymous]

I hate how elementary school is portrayed. Kids are sitting in rows. Teacher is 100 years old. Looks nothing like what an elementary classroom looks like today.

[Anonymous]

I agree about the adoption thing. I've had to debunk so many stupid stereotypes people have on adoption because of Juno.

[Anonymous]

1). When the refined female falls for the scruffy, rough male (Lady and the Tramp, Aristocats, Anastasia, etc).

2) When they straighten curly hair for the big make over moment.

[Anonymous]

Talking puppies are the cringiest.

[Anonymous]

He how old are kid themes and precocious behaviors are targeted to small kids. Such as clicks, promiscuity and meanness is the way to assert yourself in school. It really influences the minds young minds negatively.

[Anonymous]

I hate the Disney-kid/Broadway actor characters; precocious and rude, disrespectful and smug. Unfortunately, I see this behavior emulated in real life and it’s anything but cute; absolutely obnoxious.

Also, what’s with the weird bowl haircuts on child actors in the 80s?

Molly Ringwald/Brian Bonsall are examples.

[Anonymous]

Oh! And the bookish/smart female character wears glasses. Plot point is ditches the glasses and transforms herself into a beauty/popular/non-nerd.

- English major with glasses (and contacts)

[Anonymous]

+1 about the obnoxious Disney characters. Growing up, I remember watching Disney channel shows like The Edison Twins (teen scientists solving mysteries). I was shocked when I saw current offerings at how smug and smart-alecky the kids were from a company long associated with wholesome, quality, family entertainment.

I also hate it when, for no obvious reason than to be edgy, they throw in gratuitous cursing, violence, or suggestive content.

[Anonymous]

- Always a dead parent. My son always comments on this, too.

- Running away. SO MUCH running away.

- Getting lost in "the big city" and encountering lovable & helpful homeless people or thieves whose lives are changed by the chance experience with a precocious kid OR crazy people trying to capture them for some random reason

- Nonstop snark

- "nerds" with glasses. This is one my son and I both hate, as I have worn glasses for 40 years. He always says, "But, Mom, you're not a nerd!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1). When the refined female falls for the scruffy, rough male (Lady and the Tramp, Aristocats, Anastasia, etc).

2) When they straighten curly hair for the big make over moment.

YES! As a curly-headed person who looks like crap with straight hair, I greatly appreciate this being noted.

[Anonymous]

The Moms are so often dead already or killed off early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- Always a dead parent. My son always comments on this, too.

- Running away. SO MUCH running away.

- Getting lost in "the big city" and encountering lovable & helpful homeless people or thieves whose lives are changed by the chance experience with a precocious kid OR crazy people trying to capture them for some random reason

- Nonstop snark

- "nerds" with glasses. This is one my son and I both hate, as I have worn glasses for 40 years. He always says, "But, Mom, you're not a nerd!"

Lol, I loved the movie Adventures in Babysitting when I was a kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1). When the refined female falls for the scruffy, rough male (Lady and the Tramp, Aristocats, Anastasia, etc).

2) When they straighten curly hair for the big make over moment.

As someone with crazy curly hair, I can't stand this one!

[Anonymous]

It has bothered me since I was probably 8 or 9 that parents in children’s movies tend to be dead/die at an alarming rate. Whenever a movie featured just one parent, why was the other parent always dead? Why not just divorced/not in the picture?

The hair straightening also bothers me, but that’s more recent.