I’m not sure what the rules are today but in the mid 90’s if you included any words considered swear words you were rated PG, especially if you were animated. In the beginning Toy Story had the swears because they wanted to appeal to teens and adults. There was other adult themes and tones considered for Toy Story too and you can see some of the Ultimate Toy Box DVD set.
Personally, I’m glad they opted not to put the adult language in the film. I am VERY offended when any film marketed to children contains content not suitable for children. It’s why I have a problem with Shrek. Although I liked the story, that film contained a lot of adult themes, language, and undertones not appropriate for children. Naysayers try to tell me that kids won’t pick up on it but kids are smarter than people think. You go on a playground and see how many know what Shrek and Donkey were really talking about when they say “Farquadd is compensating for something” and you’ll see just how many got it. Others will gripe animation isn’t just for kids and that is true but Shrek is marketed to children and if the movie isn’t for children then why should they be targeted? There is no valid reason why you need this stuff in there because people of all ages went to see the early 90’s Disney films and they go see Pixar movies.
Has anyone ever noticed this about the original Toy Story?
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Widdi
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Again, if you can talk to your kids I don't see what the big deal is. Communication is key to things like this. You said kids arn't as dumb as we think, and that is completly true. As longs as the parent teaches them right from wrong and explains things to them, like why they shouldn't use bad language or hurt someone else, as well as why some people choose to do these things, they will listen and they will understand. And frankly I'd rather my daughter say words like "damn" when she's frustrated or angry than take out her anger physically on another person or objectUncleEd wrote: Personally, I’m glad they opted not to put the adult language in the film. I am VERY offended when any film marketed to children contains content not suitable for children. It’s why I have a problem with Shrek. Although I liked the story, that film contained a lot of adult themes, language, and undertones not appropriate for children. Naysayers try to tell me that kids won’t pick up on it but kids are smarter than people think. You go on a playground and see how many know what Shrek and Donkey were really talking about when they say “Farquadd is compensating for something” and you’ll see just how many got it. Others will gripe animation isn’t just for kids and that is true but Shrek is marketed to children and if the movie isn’t for children then why should they be targeted? There is no valid reason why you need this stuff in there because people of all ages went to see the early 90’s Disney films and they go see Pixar movies.
People get all worked up over words like "damn" and other so called "bad words", and yet they allow their children to watch films and television filled with violence. I'm not saying that childrens television should be filled with foul language, but I'd rather see words like damn and ass on tv than more shows centered around violent characters.
It astounds me to think that children's films that show violent imagery are given 'G' ratings and yet a movie in which a character would use the word damn to describe a situation or feeling, not directed at somebody, would be given a "PG" rating because of this.
Yes adults can enjoy movies without swearing like the early 90s films, and we can enjoy them on a completly different level than our kids because they are filled with things the adult mind understands. For example when Ursala is telling Ariel how she can win Eric's affections without the use of her voice and she says "And don't underestimate the power of body language!" I as a kid never understood what she meant, but as an adult I do. You can't say that isn't a sexual inuendo, because it most obviously is. All Disney movies (for the most part) contain little jokes like that that we as adults understand and enjoy.
Getting worked up over this kind of thing, and altering pieces of artwork because of it is rather stupid in my opinion. Mostly because kids are going to hear it anyways, be it from other forms of media or (most likley) from their parents themselves. As longs as you take the time to talk to your kids and teach them things, and not expect tv and movies to do it for you, your kids will be fine; even if Buzz Lightyear has the mouth of a sailor.
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UncleEd
Telling children about a taboo subject in graphic detail and then telling them is not going to get them to not do it. Its going to make them want to do it all the more because it's forbidden. Proof of point, when sex education was introduced in the US in an effort to lower teen pregnancy rates the results were the exact opposite. They started to rise. I don't have any numbers since 2000 but from the 1970's on it rose every year. Now by this logic of telling them about something and telling them not to do it shouldn't the exact opposite have occured? I think children talk dirtier todat than they have in years and I blame the content of so called all age family films.
I don't like extreme violence in family/all age films but fairy tale violence doesn't bother me, like the Beast and the wolves attack. And you don't need violence to be scary. One of my most vivid memories was seeing Sleeping Beauty for the first time at Fort Wilderness and when Malifacent arrived I screamed my head off. I think I was 4.
I never took Ursual's "Body Language" to be sexual. I took it to be pantomime. You can read anything into anything that's not too on the nose so I feel it's better to not be on the nose if you're going to incliude something like that rather than be in your face with it. This way people who want to see one way will and others who want to see it another way will also. That said, I'm against this editing out of supposed dirty things in the recent animated films. They were just glitches and not there to begin with and by editing them out it just strengthens the accusations that they were there to begin with. Disney isn't too good at that are they?
I don't like extreme violence in family/all age films but fairy tale violence doesn't bother me, like the Beast and the wolves attack. And you don't need violence to be scary. One of my most vivid memories was seeing Sleeping Beauty for the first time at Fort Wilderness and when Malifacent arrived I screamed my head off. I think I was 4.
I never took Ursual's "Body Language" to be sexual. I took it to be pantomime. You can read anything into anything that's not too on the nose so I feel it's better to not be on the nose if you're going to incliude something like that rather than be in your face with it. This way people who want to see one way will and others who want to see it another way will also. That said, I'm against this editing out of supposed dirty things in the recent animated films. They were just glitches and not there to begin with and by editing them out it just strengthens the accusations that they were there to begin with. Disney isn't too good at that are they?