# Parents: worst kids' movie you have sat through (in the theater) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-worst-kids-movie-you-have-sat-through-in-the-theater/109506 "2002-05-17T06:10:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-worst-kids-movie-you-have-sat-through-in-the-theater/109506/41 "2002-05-20T21:38:40Z")
> [@](#): > > it’s this attitude of the american public: > (Stuff criticizing _Matilda_) > that results in movie producers making this sort of movie: > (Reference to _The Care Bears Movie_ ::Warming up for a rousing rendition of “Blame Canada”:: _The Care Bears Movie_ was produced in Canada. So there. For what it’s worth (probably not much), _Matilda_ was consistently advertised as light-hearted, hilarious fun in the tradition of children outsmarting and one-upping their elders. The actual movie, while there were certainly funny elements, also contained quite a bit of abysmal parenting, child neglect, verbal and emotional abuse… it was very bleak in may ways. Kids **notice** that sort of thing. Kids who have never known their parents to willfully hurt them, and to whom the idea that parents can be mean to children is foreign, can find that sort of thing really frightening. Stuff like that would literally make my much-younger cousins sick to their stomachs. So yeah, while American movies for kids maybe quite treacly, I’d rather endure that than freak out youngsters who only know loving adults. They’ve got plenty of time to figure out that they’re lucky. ---
**Author:** ![popokis5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@popokis5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/popokis5)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-worst-kids-movie-you-have-sat-through-in-the-theater/109506/42 "2002-05-20T21:51:31Z")
It was soooo bad I don’t (want to) remember the name of it-it was the story of a pug dog and a cat that were friends and had adventures. It was made in Japan-the animals were terrified a lot of the time among other things too yucky to say- it was totally gross. I hated it. Intensely. Thank goodness the target audience couldn’t see past the Incredible Journey-type plot. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-worst-kids-movie-you-have-sat-through-in-the-theater/109506/43 "2002-05-20T22:37:30Z")
That would be "Milo and Otis **popokis5**. I thought it was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-worst-kids-movie-you-have-sat-through-in-the-theater/109506/44 "2002-05-20T22:48:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lucki Chaarms \* > **Hmm, not a movie, but the other day I was in a pizza-serving establishment that had a large TV playing a cartoon show called “Hey Arnold”.** I hate that show. I’m glad my son doesn’t watch it anymore. I don’t even care about the storylines–the animation style is just beyond horrid. I can’t even look at it. And the Hey, Arnold movie is coming out this summer. God save us. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-worst-kids-movie-you-have-sat-through-in-the-theater/109506/45 "2002-05-20T22:51:49Z")
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097050](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097050) Milo & Otis. I agree it was horrible. Seeing them shivering, walking through the snow, or falling into ocean surf… you know that those poor animals had a horrible, horrible time filming that movie ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-worst-kids-movie-you-have-sat-through-in-the-theater/109506.md?page=2)