Anonymous
Post 12/24/2021 11:58     Subject: Re:S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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.



Anonymous
Post 12/24/2021 11:01     Subject: Re:S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/24/2021 10:42     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/24/2021 10:41     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
The Moms are so often dead already or killed off early.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2021 10:40     Subject: Re:S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/24/2021 10:39     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
- 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
Post 12/24/2021 09:44     Subject: Re:S/O Things you hate about kids movies
+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
Post 12/24/2021 09:34     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/24/2021 09:32     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/24/2021 09:07     Subject: Re:S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/23/2021 22:23     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
Talking puppies are the cringiest.
Anonymous
Post 12/23/2021 22:04     Subject: Re:S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/23/2021 19:00     Subject: Re:S/O Things you hate about kids movies
I agree about the adoption thing. I've had to debunk so many stupid stereotypes people have on adoption because of Juno.
Anonymous
Post 12/23/2021 16:42     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
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
Post 12/23/2021 16:39     Subject: S/O Things you hate about kids movies
I love the book thread.

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