Disney's darkest kids' movie?Sure, Pinocchio himself is as tame, sweet and unthreatening as a cartoon character can get. No wonder kids hate that movie nowadays! He's everything kids make fun of in others, and everything parents want their kids to be. Plus, seriously, could you have a more horribly moralistic movie, where the punishment for being gullible, naive, adventurous and prone to blame-removing but otherwise unmalicious and harmless lying is misery piled up over more misery?
Ahem, but I'm straying off the topic. Pinocchio is Disney's darkest movie because of its villains. Look at them! Each and every one of them is a child abductor and exploiter! Enslaving children and threatening to chop them up or worse. And getting away with it!
By far the most disturbing part has got to be Pleasure Island. Look for the scenes where the kid turns into a donkey, and where the other kids are being corralled. They'd NEVER make that movie nowadays! Lampwick's transformation is honestly chilling. I mean, when his fists close up and turn into hooves... and both he and Pinocchio realize he WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO USE HIS HANDS AGAIN! I mean... wow!
And what does Pinocchio do when he discovers the truth? If that movie was made today, he would have almost certainly stayed to rescue the other kids from being sent to the salt mines (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!), and somehow broken the magic spell to get them back to normal and whatnot. Instead, in true horror movie fashion, he does the only sensible thing to do in that situation: HE MAKES A BEELINE FOR THE F***ING OCEAN AND SWIMS 'TILL HIS LUNGS EXPLODE OR HE REACHES THE OPPOSITE SHORE WHICHEVER COMES FIRST!
Also, Monstro is awesome.
So what do you think? Are there any other contenders that you can think of for darkest Disney kiddy movie?
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Too frickin true. X3
Would the ending fight scene for Tarzan with Clayton blasting both Kerchak and our hero with a likely illegal firearm and doing the hangman's dance in the shadows count?
Or Cruella and her brilliant idea of skinning ninety nine dalmatians puppies for a fur coat and trying to run the truck they were hiding in off a high riverside?
The bodies of Tarzan's parents in that treehouse brought chills to me even though it was a fairly simple scene.
And Lion King 2?
Persecution, Brainwashing, Double-Dealing, Homicide, Anarchy, Deception, Hatred, Unrestricted violence in the ending fight (hear Zira screaming at her hoardes to maim the helll out of the opposition).
Come to think of it, why are kids being allowed to watch this again?
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