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Revisiting Childhood Favorites

1990s
10.7k votersClassic '90s Kids Movies You Forgot Are Actually Super Messed UpKids from the '90s love to remember the fun movies of their childhood, but looking back on them with an adult perspective almost i...
Total Nerd
645 votersChildren's Movies That Only Adults LikeFor parents, there's a tricky balance to strike on movie nights where you have to entertain the little ones and try to find kids' ...
Total Nerd
8.5k votersMovies From Your Childhood That Taught You Bad LessonsKids' movies are typically supposed to promote wholesome values. Perhaps more importantly, movies are also supposed to make lots a...
Nostalgia
1.8k voters15 Underrated Kids Shows That We'd Watch A Reboot Of In A HeartbeatIf you grew up in the '90s, chances are you have a serious case of nostalgia for the old childhood shows you used to watch on Cart...
Film Trivia
3.5k votersDisturbing Deleted Scenes That Were Wisely Cut From Kids MoviesWhile most kids movies are made and catered specifically to their demographic, that doesn't mean that the older creative members b...
1990s
39.1k votersMovies You Loved As A Child That Just Don't Hold UpMovies are an integral part of childhood. We can all remember the first movie we saw in the theater, the first one we tried to wat...
Nostalgia
4.6k votersThe Most Gruesome Deaths That Have Happened In Animated Kids FilmsDeath is a normal part of life that's important for kids to learn about eventually, so it's no surprise it would appear so often i...
Total Nerd
2.9k voters"Good" Parents From Kids' Movies Who Don't Deserve To Keep Their ChildrenAs there are obviously terrible parents in real life, it makes sense that there are bad parents in tv and movies as well. More pro...
Matilda (1996)
1.1k votersMessed Up Moments From 'Matilda' That Make It Way Darker Than We RememberMatilda is a film that inspires warm childhood memories for countless '90s kids. Directed by Danny DeVito and starring Mara Wilson...
Entertainment
206 votersMain Characters In Children's Movies Who Absolutely Deserve To Be GroundedSome characters in movies seem to get away with everything, even if they're just kids who should be reprimanded and taught the dif...
The Goonies
529.3k viewsThings You Have To Ignore In Order To Enjoy Watching 'The Goonies'Fat shaming and bullying. Racial stereotyping. Drug and sex abuse references. Assault, theft, and attempted murder. And that's jus...
The Mighty Ducks
6.7k voters14 Odd Things You Never Really Noticed About The 'Mighty Ducks' MoviesWhile phenomenally popular with audiences in the early-to-mid '90s, the Mighty Ducks franchise didn't receive much love from criti...
The Land Before Time
1.4k voters‘The Land Before Time’ Is One Of The Most Traumatic Cartoons Ever MadeUpon its release in 1988, The original Land Before Time movie was both lauded and criticized for its simultaneous beauty and darkn...
The Chronicles of Narnia Franchise
12.1k voters13 Ways The Narnia Universe Is Incredibly DisturbingC. S. Lewis's world of Narnia is one of the most enchanting fictional places in existence, but it's also super, duper messed up. T...
Graveyard Shift
2.2k votersCreepiest Episodes Of Your Favorite Kids' CartoonsDespite being intended for developing minds, some children's shows are remarkably unsettling. There are plenty of cartoon episodes...
Roald Dahl
3.2m viewsStrange Stories From Behind The Scenes Of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate FactoryA movie about a candy factory where anything is possible is definitely crazy, but some of the strange Willy Wonka And The Chocolat...
Entertainment
3.5k votersBeloved All-Ages Movies That Are Super-InappropriateIt's easy to wax nostalgic about films from your childhood. You might remember them as funny and heart-warming, but if you take a ...
Total Nerd
1.5k votersMovies That Weren't Supposed To Be Scary But Terrified You As A KidFrom Gremlins to The Witches, from The Nightmare Before Christmas to Goosebumps, there are plenty of children's movies that have d...
Family Entertainment
5.7m viewsStrange Things You Definitely Didn't Know About 'The Wizard of Oz'Since the release of The Wizard of Oz in 1939, audiences have been entertained by the film and the bizarre behind-the-scenes circu...
Home Alone
2.2k votersHome Alone Is Way, Way More Messed Up Than You RememberSince its release in 1990, Home Alone has been a holiday classic. Macaulay Culkin worked his way into America's heart with his end...