I just want to say that I feel bad for creating an environment where people are maybe getting distracted from processing stuff that’s happening around them, and maybe to people they know. I can sometimes dig into the wrong thing at inappropriate times, that’s a me problem. Here’s a meme, and sorry if you’re going through something awful right now.
As a child I was watching ANIMALYMPICS I think I probably will recover any day now.
Can confirm, my memories of Rock a Doodle are incredibly fever dreamy. I remember watching We’re Back as well, but I think I remember the story beats well enough to not feel so weird about it.
All I remember about Rock a Doodle is like, “I’m pretty sure the word was on the brink of total destruction and Chicken Elvis somehow saved it.”I want a hug.
Raggedy Ann was a movie meant to advertise dolls that somehow turned into an acid fueled mindfuck.
For me this was The Phantom Tollbooth, but that’s a 70s film, so muc older. Actually, the year I watched it on midday television after school was closer to 1970 than to the present.
I miss this kind of artwork style and design for posters of children’s movies. The colourful and detailed imagery is really inviting and tells you that you’re in it for something magical. I have no problem with posters these days, but today’s counterparts pare minimalist and less uninviting if I’m a child.
This one is 2000s, but I remember my family renting a Red Riding Hood movie from blockbuster. It was extremely weird and creepy, and I always struggled to find details of the movie online. I recently found it again and watched it, and it’s still weird and creepy (though that makes it fun to drink and watch as an adult.) I then learned Henry Cavill and Joey Fatone were in the movie, which didn’t sit well as an adult.
The fuck is the associated text? Just shit on us dude
Missing Fern Gully, but a pretty good list nonetheless.
Also what about games?
I still vividly remember some old poor graphics racing game that featured (Gary the Snail or Turbo?), but there were other characters as well. The race had twists and turns, there were rocks around. I swear that was not a weird child dream!
Okay now what was the one where the kid can step into the art on a stamp and get mailed around the world? I watched it around the same time as Explorers, which is also a fever dream.
That was a trip to remember. I actually thought it was a cartoon from my memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tricker_and_the_Stamp_Traveller
Thank you! I wonder if it holds up. There’s no way it holds up.
Also I am now aware that there is a sequel. I don’t know what to do with this information.
All Dogs Go To Heaven. That shouldn’t be a kid’s movie.
If you know the lore about the voice actors and you still feel that way I’ll just go fuck myself, but the fact that it has so much emotional impact comes directly from a very painful tragedy, and I think we’d have to be fools to let the work be cast aside.
Kids used to be raised on far more terrible stuff, Grimm’s fairy tales and all. I tend to agree with Don Bluth that you can show kids a lot of ghastly stuff and they’ll enjoy it, so long as you give them a happy ending.
RIP Judith Barsi.
His films are classics and still fondly remembered for a good reason, he didn’t shy away from the hard life lessons. Sure, we don’t always get a happy ending, but kids deal with death, sickness, loss and bad people all the time. They need media that shows they’re not alone.
Kids are human people, and can experience the feeling of catharsis through art.
Controversial I know, but there you have it.
I only remember that I always wanted to watch it but never did.
I watched it as a kid but don’t remember it at all.
The Brave Little Toaster would probably be at the top of my list. I can still hear that Jon Lovitz radio.
That movie is gold. The themes are kinda heavy and much more than relatable to adults. The air-conditioner meltdown and the toasters clown/bathtub nightmare scene always freaked me out but I still watched it over and over when I was a kid.
Is The Brave Little Toaster that unknown? I know it’s no Disney film or Anastasia but I thought it was more beloved (and known) than all the others listed here.
For some reason the part with the meadow/pond really freaked me out as a kid. Especially when it gets all quiet with the flower that falls in love with the reflection in the toaster and then dies when the toaster leaves.
Brave little toaster, and We’re back. As well as those Disney Live Action movies that slapped.
That was my child hood.
It had way more fear inducement than any ‘children’s movie’ had a right to.
That movie is actually incredibly depressing at times.
That scene with the cars in the junkyard doing a whole ass musical number (“Worthless”) about how they were going to die freaked me out as a kid.
Gather round, children, it’s time to learn about existential dread!
If I remember correctly, I think the reason is that it wasn’t originally meant to be a children’s movie but for adults.
Rover Dangerfield was just “What if Rodney Dangerfield was a dog?” and as I kid I loved it. I had a vague idea of who Rodney was so this was the perfect transition film for a kid. Arguably I watched his career in reverse, but because of this film I watched it.
To see the reviews on this film and that it did so poorly, no respect at all.
I thought I was gonna be playin’ god. Turns out I read it backwards, I’m playin a dog! I tell ya, no respect.
I’ve only not seen Once Upon a Forest.
Let me tell you, you are missing out.
Pair it with Ferngully for a 90s-environmentalism double-feature.
