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I have never seen any of this, so you will know.
Kazaam- was it because it was so bad?
Baby:legend of the lost( it might be a take on b-monster movies, but it as the word baby in the name)
My science project

GhostHost wrote:I have never seen any of this, so you will know.
Kazaam- was it because it was so bad?
Baby:legend of the lost( it might be a take on b-monster movies, but it as the word baby in the name)
My science project

Kazaam was MPAA rated PG for action violence and language. Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend and My Science Project were also rated PG in the US. One angry IMDB user said that Baby "contains a scene in the jungle with several topless Indian women...but I guess otherwise, it was alright". The last bit cracked me up.

I'm no expert, but at the time, Disney wouldn't release a PG film. (Since then, we've had Pirates and so forth). The freshly created Touchstone - fresh for the mid-1980s anyways - was an ideal home for these misfits.

Either that or Disney wanted to distance themselves as much as possible from Kazaam

Actually, in the early-to-mid 1980s, Disney was pretty open to PG films (which was obviously not the case pre-1979's <i>Black Hole</i>). They released <i>Return to Oz</i>, <i>Something Wicked This Way Comes</i>, <i>The Watcher in the Woods</i>, <i>Tex</i>, <i>Flight of the Navigator</i>, <i>The Journey of Natty Gann</i> and so on. <i>Baby</i> and <i>My Science Project</i> were Touchstone's second and third releases (<i>Splash</i> being first) and all three probably could have been issued under Disney (<i>Never Cry Wolf</i> had the white buttocks of Charles Martin Smith), but they just weren't.

Disney was easing into the Touchstone label and probably had some reluctancy to jump into R-rated fare (which they would do in great numbers and warm reception the following year, 1986). There have been a number of PG-rated films to come from Touchstone (or Hollywood) in subsequent years that could have easily been simply Disney, but the studio either doesn't want the Disney connotation attached to them (that seems to be the case for <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> which bounced back and forth), hopes to have successes under other labels (also could have inspired <i>Hitchhiker's</i> ending up Touchstone), or they just want to have a semi-even distribution. One of my favorite comedies, <i>Houseguest</i>, was PG-rated and came through Hollywood Pictures.

Howdy!

Since we're on the verge of talking about Touchstone, does anyone know what the first PG-13 movie Buena Vista released? I'm not talking about Pirates; I'm talking about Touchstone, Hollywood, Miramax, those companies.

And, Kazaam? My favorite part (and only part) was when the kid wished it would rain junk food "from here to the sky!" BTW, y'all should check out the IMDb's Bottom 100 list; it's quite entertaining! Be sure to read the forums, if any of y'all are members, and contribute to those "500 Things To Do" lists!

sethn172

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Part of the reason why Touchstone was created, was because the Disney name was so tightly connected with KIDS films. Teenagers back then wouldn't be caught dead at a Disney film.
It wasn't really until The Three Musketters and Cool Runnings in the early 90's that older audiences started to except Disney as "just another studio."