History WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids / FIlm

* The upcoming movie ''Film/{{Ted}}'' seems like a family movie about a teddy bear and a man who have lived together for 20 years by the nice man who brought us ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', doesn't it? No! It's rated R! Just so they would know, Universal made a [[http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/ted-movie-theater-standee.jpg standee for the film]] that featured the eponymous bear holding up the R rating and what it's rated R for.

* ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' is about Jesus and it's from Literature/TheBible, so it must be okay, right? Leaving aside that anyone who has read the Bible should recognize a difference between the real thing and "Bible Stories for Children," some parents still ignored the R rating and [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,600221,00.html took their tykes to theaters for this one]]. {{Gorn}} to the point of {{squick}} not withstanding. Hopefully, they learned their lesson and didn't make the same mistake when ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'' came out.

* The various ''{{Batman}}'' [[Film/{{Batman}} films]] from 1989 on have been prone to controversy over their appropriateness for kids. All have had PG-13 ratings, but they were not all created equal in terms of violence and intensity. JoelSchumacher's films were intentionally LighterAndSofter than Creator/TimBurton's in part because of complaints (unfortunately, they were also "not so good"). Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' reboot is adult.

*** ''Film/BatmanReturns'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_XVcIME7Q got]] [[McDonalds Happy Meal toys]]. Look, the Batmobile! [[MisaimedMarketing Follow it dad, before the Penguin kidnaps and drowns all the first-born sons in Gotham!]]

** Similarly, the animated shorts collection ''Gotham Knight'' features horrific violence - and unlike the live-action version, it isn't bloodless. The usually more conscientious commonsensemedia.org thinks Gotham Knight is appropriate for ''eleven-year-old children'' (in comparison, they unanimously thought otherwise for ''Film/TheDarkKnight''). Because it's animated, and it's about Batman, right? Thank God none of the shorts featured SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, there would be kids in therapy.

* ''WatershipDown'': The page discussing the AnimationAgeGhetto could contain a picture of the ''Watership Down'' film poster and nothing more. Parents, grandparents and babysitters across the Western world continue coaxing catatonic children from behind sofas, the lesson that sometimes [[EverythingsBetterWithBunnies bunnies]] + animation are not all sunshines and rainbows.\\

* Parents, just because a film is a musical doesn't mean that it's kid-friendly. ''RepoTheGeneticOpera'', ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and Uncut'' and ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' come to mind. Musicals, yes they are. Kid friendly, far from it.

** Also Kidzbop had some of the music from "film/RockyHorrorPictureShow" on one of their [=CDs=]. It featured the edited Time warp, cutting out everything perverse (and funny) from it.

** ''ItsAWonderfulLife'', as inspirational as it is as a holiday film, still has a man trying to kill himself.

** ''TheRedShoes''. It's based on a fairy tale! And ballet! High culture! Never mind the ballet-within-a-film is avant-garde expressionist NightmareFuel where (''just like the story'') the heroine dances herself to death in the red shoes, and that's before the real-world framing story ends [[spoiler: with the heroine, torn between her love for her husband and her love for ballet, commits suicide by leaping off a balcony [[NoKillLikeOverkill in front of a train.]]]]

* ''[[Film/{{Avatar}} James Cameron's Avatar]]'' is PG-13 rated and by no means for kids, but due to [[MisaimedMarketing the [=McDonald=]'s Happy Meal promotion and other toys being made]], parents still took their kids to go see it... Because [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Na']][[ManiacMonkeys vi]] are just like [[LiloAndStitch Stitch]]!

* The ''AustinPowers'' films, despite being filled to the brim with sexual innuendo and whose second film has the word ''shag'' right in the title, seems to suffer from this greatly. Not only that, the third movie actually won an award for Favorite Movie at the 2003 Kids' Choice Awards.

* There was also the live action versions of Dr. Seuss' HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas and TheCatInTheHat, with the latter film being the worst use of the trope of all. How worse, did you ask? Well, before TheCatInTheHat, there were plans for an adapted version of its sequel. After the release of TheCatInTheHat, thanks to complaints from viewers, fans, and the Seuss estate on the graphically kid-unfriendly content in the film, there would be [[FranchiseKiller no Dr. Seuss films]] released until HortonHearsAWho in 2008, and even then, it had to be done in CGI because the Seuss estate forbade any studio from making it in Live Action specifically because of what Universal did with TheCatInTheHat.

* The various ''{{Batman}}'' [[Film/{{Batman}} films]] from 1989 on have been prone to controversy over their appropriateness for kids. All have had PG-13 ratings, but they were not all created equal in terms of violence and intensity. JoelSchumacher's films were intentionally LighterAndSofter than TimBurton's in part because of complaints (unfortunately, they were also "not so good"). ChristopherNolan's ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' reboot is adult.

** This troper couldn't help but {{facepalm}} upon seeing an advert for ''TheDarkKnightRises'' action figures for kids that must be at least five or six years old. You know, ''The Dark Knight Rises''? That [[SarcasmMode delightfully family-friendly movie outing]] featuring such delights as a [[spoiler: graphic blood transfusion]] ''in the opening scenes'', multiple shootings, one resulting in a hospitalisation, [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne having his back broken]] ''[[spoiler:and]]'' [[spoiler:[[NauseaFuel with the appropriate sound effects]], several other people having bones crushed and necks broken by Bane, including one who has his skull crushed,]] and of course, realistically-presented bombings up the ass - and that's not spoilered because ''YOU SEE IT IN THE FUCKING TRAILER.'' It's PG-13/12A '''''FOR A REASON'''''!

** In the original novel, ''WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'', [[spoiler: Roger]] is brutally machine-gunned to death near the beginning of the novel. The rest of the novel investigates his grizzly death.

** Similarly, the animated shorts collection ''Gotham Knight'' features horrific violence - and unlike the live-action version, it isn't bloodless. The usually more conscientious commonsensemedia.org thinks Gotham Knight is appropriate for ''eleven-year-old children'' (in comparison, they unanimously thought otherwise for ''Film/TheDarkKnight''). Because it's animated, and it's about Batman, right? Thank God none of the shorts featured TheJoker, there would be kids in therapy.
** This troper couldn't help but {{facepalm}} upon seeing an advert for ''TheDarkKnightRises'' action figures for kids that must be at least five or six years old. You know, ''The Dark Knight Rises''? That [[SarcasmMode delightfully family-friendly movie outing]] featuring such delights as a [[spoiler: graphic blood transfusion]] ''in the opening scenes'', multiple shootings, one resulting in a hospitalisation, [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne having his back broken]] ''[[spoiler:and]]'' [[spoiler:[[NauseaFuel with the appropriate sound effects]], several other people having bones crushed and necks broken by Bane, including one who has his skull crushed,]] and of course, realistically-presented bombings up the ass - and that's not spoilered because ''YOU SEE IT IN THE FUCKING TRAILER.'' It's PG-13/12A '''''FOR A REASON'''''!

** Also Kidzbop had some of the music from "film/RockyHorrorPictureShow" on one of their CDs. It featured the edited Time warp, cutting out everything perverse (and funny) from it.

* ''{{Film/Cloverfield}}'' may look like another ''{{Franchise/Godzilla}}'', but it isn't for kids, unless they like blood sucking parasites [[spoiler:whose bite [[LudicrousGibs eventually causes the victim to explode]]]], subplots about unfaithfulness, wreckage evocative of 9/11, a woman impaled on a metal spike, the monster eating [[spoiler:Hud the cameraman]], and [[spoiler:all of New York being bombed, with no survivors.]]
* A commenter on [[http://slumz.boxden.com/f5/oct-21-teacher-fired-showing-simpsons-movie-992506/ this article]] about TheSimpsonsMovie told that in 4th grade, their class watched ''{{Film/Candyman}}'' just because they thought it was about candy, when it was actually about [[spoiler: an artist and son of a slave who was murdered and had his hand replaced with a hook.]]
* ''Film/{{Drop Dead Fred}}'' seems to be harmless, a movie about a woman reunited with her imaginary friend from childhood. Many people remember watching this as kids. However, there's a lot of blatant adult (PG-13) humor, including sex jokes, and a cruel character is nicknamed "Mega-bitch."

* ''Film/{{Drop Dead Fred}}'' seems to be harmless, a movie about a woman reunited with her imaginary friend from childhood. Many people remember watching this as kids. However, there's a lot of blatant adult (PG-13) humor, including sex jokes and a cruel character is nicknamed "Mega-bitch"

* ''Film/{{Drop Dead Fred}}'' seems to be harmless, a movie about a little girl's manic imaginary friend coming back to wreak havoc on the now-adult girl. Until you realize there's a lot of sex humor and profanity.

* A commenter on [[http://slumz.boxden.com/f5/oct-21-teacher-fired-showing-simpsons-movie-992506/ this article]] about TheSimpsonsMovie told that in 4th grade, their class watched ''{{Film/Candyman}}'' just because they thought it was about candy, when it was actually about [[spoiler: an artist and son of a slave who was murdered and had his hand replaced with a hook.]]

* {{Cloverfield}} may look like another {{Godzilla}}, but it isn't for kids.

* A commenter on [[http://slumz.boxden.com/f5/oct-21-teacher-fired-showing-simpsons-movie-992506/ this article]] about TheSimpsonsMovie told that in 4th grade, their class watched ''Film/Candyman'' just because they thought it was about candy, when it was actually about [[Spoiler: an artist and son of a slave who was murdered and had his hand replaced with a hook.]]

* TheGoodSon starred adorable little Macaulay Culkin, known and loved by children at the time for his HomeAlone series. In this new film he played a serial killer who [[spoiler: fell to his death, while screaming rather like he did in HomeAlone]]. Sweet dreams, kiddos!

* {{Cloverfield}} may look like another {{Godzilla}}, but it isn't for kids.

* The 2005 adaptation of TheProducers: Don't let your kids be fooled when they hear [[HeyItsThatVoice Max Bialystock's]] [[Disney/TheLionKing voice that sounds an awful lot like Timon]], Leo Bloom's role being done by the same person who did Simba, and also Will Ferrell as the writer of the play Max and Leo want to turn into a musical who has cute birds! This movie is rated PG-13 for a lot of sexual content.

* The upcoming movie ''{{Ted}}'' seems like a family movie about a teddy bear and a man who have lived together for 20 years by the nice man who brought us ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', doesn't it? No! It's rated R! Just so they would know, Universal made a [[http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/ted-movie-theater-standee.jpg standee for the film]] that featured the eponymous bear holding up the R rating and what it's rated R for.

** Played with in the corresponding episode of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', where Mike and the bots read other books supposedly related to the film. All of them have titles like "Santa's Workshop of Shimmering Delights", but are horrific {{Gorn}} fests -- except for the lighthearted "Dr. Blood's Orgy of Gore".

* Parents, just because a film is a musical doesn't mean that it's kid-friendly. ''RepoTheGeneticOpera'', ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', ''SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and Uncut'' and ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' come to mind. Musicals, yes they are. Kid friendly, far from it.

** ''KingKong''. This was lampshaded in ''DunstonChecksIn'' when the kid's dad turns on the TV to calm him down and says, "Ah, a nice old black and white movie. You'll be out in no time." Meanwhile Kong has escaped and is about to abduct the heroine, sending the kid straight into nightmare land.

* ''Film/JurassicPark'' and its sequels. "[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs This dinosaur movie]] is so cool, look there's a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' and... HE'S EATING PEOPLE! MOMMY! I'M SCAAAARREEED!" Nonetheless, it was still pretty heavily marketed towards kids, with plenty of toys, coloring books, video games, etc. for kids. It was a funny sort of {{defictionalization}} of the Jurassic Park merchandise from the park.

* The Japanese 1957 classic film, ''The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty'', whose graphic murder scene was definitely not for children. ''{{MOTHER}}'' series creator ShigesatoItoi, however, [[MisaimedFandom was some accidental exception]] for the scene that he saw as a little boy (as he thought he was seeing a rape scene at the time), and that scene, along with the actress in it, would later inspire [[NightmareFuel the last battle scene]] with Giygas in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''.

* Most people think of original ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' film as a family movie, and why shouldn't they? There was numerous merchandise target towards children, it spawned of the popular cartoon, it's been shown on the Disney Channel several times, and even been released on home video as part of Columbia/TriStar's family collection. But the truth is, the film was mainly targeted for adults. There's blatant sexual references and language throughout the entire film, particularly one brief scene during the montage that played during the theme song that actually went so far as to feature a ghost giving Ray a blow job.

* The upcoming movie ''{{Ted}}'' seems like a family movie about a teddy bear and a man who have lived together for 20 years by the nice man who brought us ''FamilyGuy'', doesn't it? No! It's rated R! Just so they would know, Universal made a [[http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/ted-movie-theater-standee.jpg standee for the film]] that featured the eponymous bear holding up the R rating and what it's rated R for.
** To give you a hint as to why the movie deserves an "R"-rating, the eponymous teddy bear's personality basically was perverted and addicted to drugs, as well as being very lewd and a slacker, and [[ActorAllusion in a manner similar to]] ''FamilyGuy'', at least one promotional spot has Ted barfing all over a tile for the Walk of Fame. Ted's also voiced by SethMacFarlane, the aforementioned creator of ''FamilyGuy''.

* At first, ''TheFisherKing'' looks like the type of RobinWilliams comedy that might be targeted at families. But it has outbursts of profanity, some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, and subplots involving suicide and a mad gunman.

* ''PansLabyrinth''. Seriously, some mothers take little children to see it. Some theaters actually had signs that read "This film is rated R" at the ticket boxes just in case. On paper, the movie does read as vaguely kid-friendly; it's got CG fairies, and the protagonist is an imaginative girl who becomes a heroine. But that, of course, leaves out most of the crucial details. Alas for that theory, the [[TheFairFolk fairies]] del Toro depicts are ''not'' like [[DisneyFairies Tinker Bell]]. [[NeverTrustATrailer The marketing may have been partly to blame.]]
** A very important detail that's often left out when someone is giving a synopsis is that its a drama set in the SPANISH CIVIL WAR. Fairies that range from slightly disturbing to [[NightmareFuel absolutely horrifying]] aside, this movie still centers on the actions and motivations of people in violent struggle.

* The various ''{{Batman}}'' [[Film/{{Batman}} films]] from 1989 on have been prone to controversy over their appropriateness for kids. All have had PG-13 ratings, but they were not all created equal in terms of violence and intensity. JoelSchumacher's films were intentionally LighterAndSofter than TimBurton's in part because of complaints (unfortunately, they were also "not so good"). ChristopherNolan's ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga Dark Knight Trilogy]]'' reboot is adult.
** In Argentina, [[MisaimedMarketing they heavily marketed]] ''The Dark Knight'' to children, including coloring books, sticker albums, and action figures based on the movie.
*** It's like that in North America, too. There are children's toys and Fruit Roll-Ups themed after ''The Dark Knight'' (wouldn't be surprised if the stuff you mentioned is also sold here). There were even ''The Dark Knight'' happy meal toys!

** Similarly, the animated shorts collection ''Gotham Knight'' features horrific violence - and unlike the live-action version, it isn't bloodless. The usually more conscientious commonsensemedia.org thinks Gotham Knight is appropriate for ''eleven-year-old children'' (in comparison, they unanimously thought otherwise for ''The Dark Knight''). Because it's animated, and it's about Batman, right? Thank God none of the shorts featured TheJoker, there would be kids in therapy.