20 Kids Movies That Were Obviously Not for Kids

Making children’s movies is a delicate balancing act between giving kids the age-appropriate stimulation they want and not making the adults charged with policing their media consumption want to throw themselves out the window in boredom. Make it all gentle, formless lights and sounds, and you’ve got feature-length Teletubbies, and nobody wants that. Go too far in the other direction, however, and you’ve got, well, most of the children’s media of the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Even these days, you never know when you walk into a weekday matinee whether you’re going to have a wholesome good time or have to spend the car ride home explaining exactly why that lemur liked the other lemur’s bottom so much. So when user FighterAtHeart24 asked r/AskReddit, “What kids movie made you think ‘This is NOT for kids’?” Reddit had a whole lot of childhood trauma and parenthood frustration to get off its collective chest.