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- MasonStormchild, on 11/06/2007, -0/+70Hi. I'm the writer of this article, so I guess I'll field any questions.
The answer to that last one is that this article is about toons that are actually intended for kids that will mess them up. South Park doesn't really fit that criteria. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+64A cracked top 10 list all on one page!!
- mltvcocktail, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42Finally someone articulated the insanity that is Cars. Who creates them for god sake?!?!
- dagnabbit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37I realize that the list is more tongue-in-cheek, but I'm surprised that Secret of NIMH didn't make the list. From what I recall, that movie was pretty freakin' dark for a kids' flick.
- SwingCorey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33Nobody would assume that the South Park movie is for kids in the first place. Movies like "The Transformers", "Watership Down" (about bunny rabbits), and ANY Pixar/Disney movie are usually, and sometimes unwisely, viewed as being geared towards kids.
But a movie billed as "Bigger, Longer, Uncut" is obviously NOT geared toward kids (although some stupid parents still let their 10-year-olds watch it). - Ekwoya, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29Yeah i was really pissed off as a kid when Quasimodo didnt get the girl ...and what the hell is that testicle-racoon movie???
- jimsf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25Where the hell is Bambi? Opening sequence with Bambi's mom being killed.... if thats not traumatic I don't know what is. Dumbo also has a traumatic sequence with Dumbo's mother being taken away. My sister had to stop showing Dumbo to her kids at some point because they started to get that part of the movie.
- fluidfoundation, on 10/18/2007, -3/+27A giant spaghetti monster.
RAmen. - eleven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24lol - when was little the drunk scene in Dumbo freaked me out. Dark Crystal was also a bit terrifying.
- MasonStormchild, on 11/06/2007, -0/+21You saw the wrong Transformers movie.
BOW YOUR HEAD IN SHAME! - PlayWithFire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Actually, Pom Poko is pretty awesome. I highly recommend it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_Poko - MasonStormchild, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20There were some movies that didn't make the cut for no other reason than my jokes weren't funny. These include Nihm, Bambi, Finding Nemo, and every Japanese anime ever.
- mattdanis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Judge Doom used to scare the ***** out of me in Who Framed Roger Rabbit when I was a kid. He killed that poor cartoon shoe!
- drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Just because something is animated doesn't mean it's for kids. Honestly though, I would much rather children watch this kind of stuff than cutesy CRAP that studios like to turn out. The world is not a happy happy fluffy world where good always wins and everyone gets a hug. Sometimes the bad guy wins. The hero doesn't always get the girl. Sometimes a great sacrifice is needed to achieve the ultimate goal. These are lessons that children are better off learning in the subtle manner of animation sooner than later.
It's the crap like pokemon, barny, teletubbies, and the power rangers that ***** up our youth. - standalonematt, on 11/06/2007, -2/+18The biggest oversight is Grave of the Fireflies - that movie traumatizes you nomatter what age you are. Everyone should watch the film at least once though.
- netcowboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16That was funny - Optimus Prime as stepdad for a generation of latchkey kids, Lion King as Hamlet with lions, the writer's over-identification with the Quasimodo character, rabid bunnies! This was the funniest thing I've read in a while.
- ShooterMcGavin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15When I saw the headline I immediately thought of Watership Down. That absolutely scarred me for life when I saw that as a little kid. To this day, I refuse to watch it again.
- sucraloser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I kept expecting to see The Secret of NIMH. I mean, seriously. Lab rats being injected with chemicals, trapped in cages, blood everywhere, creepy underground rats, the Great Owl?
I miss that film. : ( - Durinthal, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13There are people on dialup?
- logicalnoise, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Best cracked list so far. At first I thought spirited away was a shoe in but in reality I realized it does treat it's charectars well and other than slavery it's free of a lot of these terrible thoughts.
- thebenchase, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12the nightmare before christmas, anyone? ***** scared the hell out of me when i was five.
- godmode, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I must commend Cracked for once. They actually put a Top 10 list on one page, instead of the obligatory 10!
- glucoseboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Dugg for #2 Watership Down. I saw that in the theater when I was a kid. Scared the bejuzzus out of me. Rabbits with claws and fangs dripping blood? General Woundwort took on a dog head to head for goodness sake!!!!
- MasonStormchild, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11That still counts as animated.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Shifty2, Ninja Scroll is clearly rated for adults, not kids. That is why there is literally some pussy stroking action in it. Just because its animated doesn't mean its for kids. Obviously Shifty2 is not Japanese otherwise he'd have known that very well. To the Japanese, illustration and animation is just another medium of expression on film.
PomPoko Wars was a great movie, featuring the Tanuki's, which can be found in half if not more of the real Japanese (not Chinese run Japanese restaurants) in the world. They are the transforming raccoon dogs of Japanese lore that also happen to be the god of restaurateurs and booze. The Tanuki's do play tricks on humans, are commonly protrayed as holding a bottle of booze, and fake credit slips on the other. They have large testicles which serve various purposes. Most look more like Racoons than the actual raccoon dogs that they are based on. The construction workers aren't portrayed as definitely evil, and the movie is a social commentary about how urban sprawl is encroaching upon the environment, of which much of Japanese lore comes from (9 tailed fox, etc etc).
Also the Japanese don't have as much of an aversion towards testicles and the vagina as Americans do. Its much more socially okay to make jokes about that or caricatures that have that. Also Japanese kids do something called the Kancho, which would totally not be okay in the USA. - bffoley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Haha, that's exactly the movie I was thinking of when I saw the title to this article.
- godmode, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Not really a question, but when i read #1, i rememered an episode of Batman:TAS where Bruce Wayne makes out(and maybe bones) Raz Al Ghul's daughter, only to later find out that it's Raz himself.
- zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Truly. You never hear about how the seven dwarves were actually hardened ex-mercenaries who slaughtered the previous human inhabitants of their mines, or how the supposedly evil Maleficent was actually oppressed by the fairy godmother-worshiping kingdom's religious intolerance.
Wait, what? - spam4jan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Not too crazy but Grave of the Fireflies was definitely traumatizing.
- TCFrancis, on 11/06/2007, -1/+10If you can watch Grave of the Fireflies and not cry, you have no soul. Animated or not, that's one of the most powerful movies I've ever seen.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Hell the Secert of NIMH was very scary...anybody wanna argue it wasn't
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH
and it wasn't a movie but i found AstroBoy and Robotech very Traumatizing as it had alot of adult situations and feelings of death and stuff - drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Anyone ever notice that the cover to Secret of N.I.M.H is more than a bit misleading.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=3534 ...
Somehow that cover just doesnt communicate the dark nature of that movie. - Azuroth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The last 2, literally made me laugh so hard I was crying in my cubicle. Now I have to explain this to my boss....thanks ;)
- bnorman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7No The Last Unicorn? That movie is messed UP. Check it out sometime.
- alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8In my local video store they had the South Park movie under the kids section for almost a year. Brilliant thinking on their side.
- SuperFluke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Hey now, if it weren't for Optimus I might have turned out worse than I did.
- employeeno5, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I'm assuming the writer and most people here have not seen "The Last Unicorn". I'm not being critical of the list at all, but if you haven't seen this animated film please check it out at your earliest convenience. It's flabbergasting that this movie was made and exists. If you get the special edition DVD be sure to watch all the extras. Their almost as astounding as the film.
- Sophren, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7That was seriously the most horrifically depressing movie I've ever seen. Powerful, though.
"Nii-chan..." - MasonStormchild, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I know that. I just thought that this would be a funny article. I'm not calling for censorship.
That said, don't take your kids to see Pom Poko. - otakushark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Err...that was R-rated under the old system. I guess her Mom didn't pay much attention to the packaging...
- tradwolley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Dugg for that reason alone.
And the movies, mainly #1 and #2. Wow, glad I missed those as a kid. - blackmage439, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"MAGICAL. RACCOON. TESTICLES!!!1!1!!!" I cried with laughter when I read this...
Seriously though, I am a huge fan of Pixar movies. And, while I agree that it can be logically concluded (but not proven) that people are seriously dying in The Incredibles, while the movie and [good] characters maintain a comical personality, the writer's use of Cars in the list is just stupid. There is NOTHING emotionally scarring about this movie, unless you realize what Doctor of Internal Combustion refers to... Watching the borderline-psychotic Sid strap a G.I.Joe to a rocket and blow it the ***** up in Toy Story is more damaging than anything in Cars. Hell, as another Digger noted, no one actually DIES in Cars, which is far more than I can say about Bambi and Finding Nemo. What kid wouldn't be the slightest traumatized after seeing a ***** deer get shot?!
Other than that, fantastic list. :-D - employeeno5, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Shame on me for mis-typing "They're" as "Their".
Oh yeah, and ironrex, if you haven't seen The Last Unicorn since you were a kid, rent it sometime. The movie is a like being blown over by a breeze of crazy. Not only do you get to relive a part of your childhood, I'm sure you'll also find a bevy of new things to love about this film. - MasonStormchild, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Where the hell did you see those cartoons? I was actively looking for scary cartoons, and I'd never heard of those two.
Don't bash the cracked editors for my ignorance. The list is mine, as are any omissions. - Nysul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The reason I am so messed up now is because my mom rented Watership Down for me when I was 6.
- EntropyGun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Fantastic Planet is a good one for traumatizing adults.
- fluidfoundation, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I know its not animated, but the light beings at the end of Dark Crystal scared the ***** out of me as a kid.
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Hey, Pokemon is all about fighting... ***** the rest of those, though.
- fluidfoundation, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7To me it seems most any Disney movie is a bad one for kids, usually due to the incredibly made up history lessons they get in them.
- humperdeath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Dang, just got cut off on my DIALUP, but finally back online. So, I was saying, it's mostly ok, and chea
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