History WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids / Film

* It's really suprising when Illumination made ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing2}}'' more darker compared to the original film. Yes, it's still family friendly and has the original film's humor but it's still considered to be one of Illumination's darker films all because of Jimmy Crystal as he attempted to kill Buster Moon twice (and you think Illumination was gonna sugar coat it as in making a jarring ''Looney Tunes'' like joke albeit out of context). Sure, a slightly similar scene in ''Minions: The Rise of Gru'' had one scene of a young Gru almost getting killed by falling down the surface but that was played for laughs. Jimmy Crystal is a no-nonsense villain in this movie. Jimmy isn't the only culprit as there is a different scene of an animal character singing "Bury a Friend" in a freaky way despite being played for laughs.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' has the villain's {{Mooks}} cheerfully singing about [[MoralEventHorizon murdering widows and orphans]] (by drowning them, no less), a 19th-century version of a ''[[BestKnownForTheFanservice striptease]]'', and the villain going AxCrazy when his EvilScheme falls through, and he straight up tries to kill the hero with his bare [[FunnyAnimal paws]].

* The 2009 adaptation of ''A Christmas Carol'' happens to be an animated Disney film with the collaboration of Disney and ImageMovers (the same guys behind ''The Polar Express'') so maybe this should be a good watch with the kids especially since the trailers made it look like a typical comedic Jim Carrey film mixed with a classic tale. Well then, wait until you see the entire film which is very faithful with the story to the point of having nightmare fuel and we mean a lot such as Ignorance and Want, Jacob's corpse, The Ghost of Christmas Future, the death of the Ghost of Christmas Present, the list goes on! Boy how is that for a kids movie?

* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' undoubtedly has to be Creator/DonBluth's darkest film (with the possible exception of ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''), with relatively small "kid-friendly" scenes in between the controversial themes of gambling, first degree murder, theft, drinking, terrifying images of {{Hell}} and {{Satan}}, and the real clincher, [[spoiler:the killing of the main protagonist at the end]], something unheard of in Western animation for children. Thankfully, the sequels and television series are notably much lighter and softer in tone, embracing sci-fi elements and slapstick humor.

* Guillermo Del Toro's ''Pinocchio'' is still a family-friendly adaptation of the timeless fairy tale just as Del Toro wanted it to be. However, this version of Pinocchio talks about Fascism, had Gappetto getting drunk at one point, and had a tragic death scene albeit no blood anyways but still. Heck, you can tell that Del Toro stated that animation is not a genre for kids and his movie proves it. Del Toro does not consider his version of ''Pinocchio'' a babysitter film.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Soul'' doesn't have anything inappropriate and it's still a family-friendly kid's film but the theme is very mature as it talks about the meaning of life albeit in a more serious yet cartoonish way without having to be jarring. And then there is the part where [[spoiler:22 mutates into a lost soul at one point]].

* The Pixar movie ''WesternAnimation/Soul'' doesn't have anything inappropriate and it's still a family-friendly kid's film but the theme is very mature as it talks about the meaning of life albeit in a more serious yet cartoonish way without having to be jarring. And then there is the part where ||22 mutates into a lost soul at one point||.

* Film/ErnestGoesToCamp'' the scene where TheDragon beats up Ernest is a but too brutal for an''Ernest P. Worrell'' movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'', despite being based on the comics by Creator/{{Herge}} and being rated PG by the MPAA, is itself very mature and violent, featuring swearing, drunkenness, smoking, gun violence, and onscreen death. The animation can fall into the UnintentionalUncannyValley due to the almost realistic faces of Tintin and Sakharine in contrast to the other characters, who retain their cartoonish faces from the comics.

* WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} may seem like a fun, lighthearted animated film at first, but it gets a lot darker as it goes on, with Pinocchio being forced to work for a cruel puppeteer who locks him in a cage and threatens to chop him into firewood if he can no longer perform. And he's later lured over to an island with hundreds of other boys, which is seemingly paradise but is actually a trap where they eventually transform into donkeys and are shipped off for labor for profit, with possibly no way to reverse it. Pinocchio is the only one to escape with the help of his conscience Jiminy Cricket, but the Coachman, the mastermind behind the operation, gets away with it scott free, something that normally never happens in a Disney film.

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''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTheAmericanRabbit'', aside from some of the violence, is rather tame, although the political attire the film points out would probably confuse kids about its message.

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The 2009 adaptation of ''A Christmas Carol'' happens to be an animated Disney film with the collaboration of Disney and ImageMovers (the same guys behind ''The Polar Express'') so maybe this should be a good watch with the kids especially since the trailers made it look like a typical comedic Jim Carrey film mixed with a classic tale. Well then, wait until you see the entire film which is very faithful with the story to the point of having nightmare fuel and we mean a lot such as Ignorance and Want, Jacob's corpse, The Ghost of Christmas Future, the death of the Ghost of Christmas Present, the list goes on! Boy how is that for a kids movie?

''WesternAnimation/AChristmas Carol(2009)'' happens to be an animated Disney film with the collaboration of Disney and ImageMovers (the same guys behind ''The Polar Express'') so maybe this should be a good watch with the kids especially since the trailers made it look like a typical comedic Jim Carrey film mixed with a classic tale. Well then, wait until you see the entire film which is very faithful with the story to the point of having nightmare fuel and we mean a lot such as Ignorance and Want, Jacob's corpse, The Ghost of Christmas Future, the death of the Ghost of Christmas Present, the list goes on! Boy how is that for a kids movie?

''WesternAnimation/A Christmas Carol(2009)'' happens to be an animated Disney film with the collaboration of Disney and ImageMovers (the same guys behind ''The Polar Express'') so maybe this should be a good watch with the kids especially since the trailers made it look like a typical comedic Jim Carrey film mixed with a classic tale. Well then, wait until you see the entire film which is very faithful with the story to the point of having nightmare fuel and we mean a lot such as Ignorance and Want, Jacob's corpse, The Ghost of Christmas Future, the death of the Ghost of Christmas Present, the list goes on! Boy how is that for a kids movie?

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTheAmericanRabbit'', aside from some of the violence, is rather tame, although the political attire the film points out would probably confuse kids about its message.

* Though still a fun family-friendly kids' movie, ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'' had characters being placed in a bootlegging fiasco that causes the fictional characters to be altered into some cartoonist abominations regardless if they look weird or funny yet even then the film's lore is horrific once you learn about the bootlegging process. And who could not forget the time when Sweet Pete turned into a chimera monster of various toons with a voice that alternates a lot to the point of feeling like a demon? Granted there's nothing too bad but still.

* ''Animation/ElArca'' is a Spanish animated film loosely based on [[Literature/TheBible Noah's Ark]] that mostly focuses on the [[FunnyAnimal animals on Noah's Ark]]. The film contains a sex scene (not an implied one at that), a strip club, a [[{{Gainaxing}} big breasted]] panther named [[MsFanservice Panthy]], and a fight scene which at one point [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence shows visible blood]] (only a little, but still). This was a kid's film.

* The 1991 sequel ''Film/ReturnToTheBlueLagoon'' was a bizarre case of marketing creating confusion as the original home video release of the film was promoted as being "family entertainment" despite the film having sex scenes and nudity (not to mention being a sequel/remake of one of the most controversial films of the 1970s, controversial for the exact same reasons).

** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' features, among other things, [[KillEmAll almost every major heroic character]] dying, most of them onscreen, and a beloved hero [[WouldHurtAChild murdering children]] and [[MoralEventHorizon strangling his pregnant wife nearly to death]]. Not to mention a prolonged scene of a character screaming in agony as he almost burns to death in a scene that can be hard to watch even for adults. While it earned a PG-13 rating in America, that didn't exactly stop the film from being marketed towards kids under 13. Despite the more graphic and adult elements, the film is generally pretty well received among children.

* ''Animation/SheepAndWolves'' starts off like a comedic animated movie with an [[IdiotHero foolish wolf]] who [[BalefulPolymorph gets turned into a sheep]], but it gets darker later on, [[spoiler:with [[TheBigBad its antagonist]] ''[[MoralEventHorizon intentionally]]'' [[TheUsurper killing his ailing leader to take his position]]]]. And the female wolves, ''including'' the main characters' LoveInterest, are [[MsFanservice heavily sexualized]].

* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' was given the equivalent of a G rating in Japan despite being the most violent and darkest of Creator/StudioGhibli's films, but netted a PG-13 rating in the US and a 14A rating in Canada.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'', despite being based on the comics by Creator/{{Herge}} and being rated PG by the MPAA, is itself very mature and violent, featuring swearing, drunkenness, smoking, gun violence, and onscreen death. The animation can fall into the UncannyValley due to the almost realistic faces of Tintin and Sakharine in contrast to the other characters, who retain their cartoonish faces from the comics.

* The movie adaptation of the musical ''Film/{{Cats}}'', despite carrying a PG rating, has a [[Main/FetishRetardant strange current of eroticism]], between the weirdly sensual way the cats move and rub against each other and the fact that they look like naked humans covered in fur, which isn't helped at all by the constant presence of the UncannyValley.

* ''Film/TronLegacy''. Considering that the 2010 sequel has a DarkerAndEdgier plot and [[LudicrousGibs much more brutal]] [[NeverSayDie deresolutions]] than the [[Film/{{Tron}} 1982 original]][[note]]Many of the arena deaths, for example, dismemberment and splatter easily compare with similar scenes in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', possibly being a nod to Scott's epic, only swapping dissolving luminescent cubes for real blood and gore.[[/note]], one could easily be shocked that this film was intended for kids. This can't possibly be stressed enough. The movie is about as close to {{Gorn}} as you can get without showing any blood, the villain is essentially [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Hitler]] (and [[UncannyValley really]] terrifying at that), and somehow it still managed to get a PG rating, with Creator/{{Disney}} somehow not realizing that their movie was '''very''' kid-unfriendly and [[MisaimedMarketing marketing it to young children]]. Its promotions on Creator/DisneyChannel, as well as its [[http://www.shopadidas.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=10869167&f=PAD%2FGender%2FKids Adidas apparel line]], and its [[http://www.disneystore.com/tron/vehicles-and-rc-toys/mn/1000056+1000268/ large]] [[http://www.disneystore.com/tron/action-figures/mn/1000056+1000255/ collection]] of toys, all of which are made and meant for children.

-->'''Servo''': ''(as the kid)'' No, Grandpa [[Creator/ErnestBorgnine Borgnine]], leave light and hope for me! Please!
-->'''Crow''': ''(as Grandpa Borgnine)'' Get out from behind that cushion, Billy! It gets worse!

* The 2007 Indian film ''Like Stars on Earth'' is about a dyslexic boy who has problems with his school life, so he then has an art teacher tutoring him, so it's a kids film, right? Well wrong, first off, the film has by far, the most creepiest scenes in kids film history, such as the opening scene having distorted letters and being accompanied by horrific music, the infamously disturbing Bheja Kum scene which has spiders that are shaped in the form of letters and numbers and a snake jumpscare in the end of said scene that happens out of nowhere, the film also tackles on parental abuse and Dyslexia, which is depicted as an extremely serious problem, the fact that Disney of all companies distributed the film internationally and was rated PG didn't help matters.

* The original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' got this reaction when we get to meet Sid, who tortures and mutilates toys, but that's nothing compared to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. Lots of kids were frightened and often even left when the CymbalBangingMonkey appeared (a few theorized that the 11-year SequelGap resulted in Pixar aiming for a DarkerAndEdgier route).

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', while still kid-friendly, is more overt about puberty and tween sexuality than you might expect, even from Creator/{{Pixar}}. An early plot point has Mei excitedly doodling shirtless drawings of a seventeen-year-old clerk working at the local convenience store, which her mother discovers and misinterprets as a sign of said teenager having [[MistakenForPedophile taken advantage of her]]. The film also notably averts the idea of NoPeriodsPeriod, where not only does Mei's mom assume Mei is menstruating (with the UnusualEuphemism of "the red peony blooming") and bring her maxi pads, but she also mentions that Mei should "clean" her "petals" regularly. There's also brief references to drugs and "stripper music," both of which are surprisingly explicit for a PG Disney film.