Can confirm rabbits bite to kill. I work in a vet clinic and in the last 3-4 years no one has had to go to the hospital because cats or dogs biting. One girl had to go, though, because a rabbit literally bit through her finger. Biting is part of the normal language between cats and dogs; it's a way for them to tell you to piss the fuck off. Rabbits only really bite when they're in mortal danger. Hence you get the warning bites from cats and dogs before you get the serious ones. You don't get those nice warnings from rabbits.
I once had 2 hamsters, they were both female and reached maturity... then they competed over a nonexistent male and one at the other one and had temporary coronary heart failure and obesity 😄 I have a good life...
I think films like this and "The Plague Dogs" were never really made for children, I think animation was used because they had no other way to tell the story in a video setting. I hope that at some point the general public will realize that animation is not something only children can enjoy.
Watership down is meant for childern and really anyone. Plague dogs is not. I think dark films are only meant for adults is just has bad has animation only being for childern.cuase it's ok to show kids dark stuff every now and then with proper guidance so they can better understand the world we live and become well rounded.
And what about Felidea? I literally watched 3 seconds of the review from the same person and I bet theres no other film even in the whole history of the world so sick. I thought Watership Down and most of all the Plague Dogs can ruin your childhood and can mess with your mind and bring you sleepless nights, but Felidea bring it to the absolute top. God, those man who animated it and most of all the person who ever could THINK of this?!?!!!! Those guys belong in a fucking psychiatric and have some serious issues, I swear! Fucking cats who are cut open and stitched back and god nows what more and than that fucking psychopath! What the hell is wrong with those guys what we're they thinking!? Most of all, a sick and sadistic movie that can give anyone sleepless nights and can totally fuck up your mind. Great.
And I hope one day people who make these comments will realize what the term "family programming / film" means, that children's media having more serious themes is nothing new, and back in the good ol' days films that were made as family films did indeed have blood, dark themes, serious tones, and/or the use of swears, and that these things were there as a way to subtly introduce these things to children while also entertaining the adults watching with them, as they were films aimed at FAMILIES. I hope that at some point the general public will realize that children are capable of understanding serious themes and that these aren't adult-only things.
《Raftid 》 Only Felidae isn't a kids film, it was never intended to be one. Chill out, violence is always in live action films yet nobody bats an eye to that.
According to my old kindergarten teacher that I saw in the supermarket, I DID see this movie... the whole thing... I was 4... the teacher walked in at the last violent scene in the movie and then realized that she has just messed up the next generation
Shayna Barnhard Yeah well the issue is that rather than the government or sensors neuter everything because they’re too lazy to check out the movie for their selves They have ratings for a reason
4:38 Easy - no-one on the ratings board actually sat down and watched this thing. They just saw that it was a cartoon with some pretty grass and cute bunny rabbits on the cover and they just slapped a U rating on it. Because, you know, cartoons can only be for kids.
Indeed. I have a movie poster for it, with that quote across the middle, and I love it. It instantly takes me back to when I first watched Watership Down. Awesome stuff.
So funny story, when I was 8, my dad went to the library and rented a VHS movie about fluffy bunnies for me and my 2-year old brother to watch. Needless to say, I was scarred for life after watching Watership Down.
I remember my mom sat me down when i was little to watch this. She left me in my room to watch this "cute bunny movie" while she went about her day. I was 5.
Lps GoreWolf666 I know, suffocation is one of the worst ways to go in my opinion. At least in water you have something to inhale. Not sure that’s better since I fear both, but I don’t like how long it takes.
@@eadlynjune i heard when you drown it feels like your lungs are burning but on the other hand to me the easiest to watch out of burning alive, buried alive, and drowning it would drowning and i'm talking animation wise because all it has to be is a little struggle then sinking down with air bubbles leaving the mouth.
Kitala Laris yea I didn’t think about freezing and here is a fun fact for everyone in the movie felidae (a movie about cat murder) it has a blind cat named felicity while my name is felicity but she gets decapitated
pickledegg1989 Yeah, Kids do just love throwing around swears on the playground and I remember doing so myself but I think it's purely due to this film being a U rating that he's surprised 'piss off' got passed the censors. I'm surprised his film got his rating at all, a PG at least
my mom works with kids, and there are many of them who straight out tell the grown ups and teachers to "piss off" or "fuck off" or call them "fuckface" and other much worse things and they do very well know what these words mean and that they're offensive, it's really not uncommon for kids to be assholes at all
Just because kids know the words doesn't mean it's appropriate for them. As a young kid, I knew what sex was but that doesn't mean it would be appropriate for a sex scene to appear on a film rated U
@@123Nightcloud But we're not talking about sex. You are. We're talking about a very mild swear word referring to wee. Hardly something to dedicate a ten minute video to.
I was in the movie store with my dad,(I was about five) I saw this movie with cute little bunnies. I asked my dad about it, he said he saw the movie when he was a kid. He said it was too sad so I kept looking. Good call dad.good Parenting. now I see what he meant..
@@gavinbunting7354 Yeah, CGI is shit. There's no love or effort put in to it like there was with hand-drawn animations. Edit: Also, mate, it's "hater," not "hatter" you actual fucking moron.
Absolutely same!!! I watched this movie because of the controversy to see what the big deal was (at 15) and I love gore bc I'm a horror fan. I had nightmares about the suffocation scene alone!
@Your Fellow Queenie All unicorns are killed by a red bull (not the drink, an actual red bull) except one. A wizard and a thief girl want to help the Unicorn and in order to hide it the wizard turns the Unicorn into a woman. Along the way they meet an evil witch, a three titted harpy, bandits and an evil king. They try to find a way to beat the red bull and in the meantime the transformed unicorn and the son of the evil king (who is not evil) fall in love. I won't spoil the ending here. But aside from the bull, the witch and the harpy the movie isn't really that scary
I'm about halfway through the book and it didn't seem too dark just yet, so I'm gonna watch this and see just what makes people associate nightmares with this Edit: oh. Another edit: holy shit the suffocation scene is much worse than I imagined
@@BigBeerus Richard Adams actually wrote at the beginning of the book that "...Watership Down was never intended to be some sort of allegory or parable. It is simply the story about rabbits made up and told in the car."
The moment that scarred me watching this as a child was the scene where Bright Eyes plays and the rabbit silhouettes dance then contort and die.I was deathly scared the Black Rabbit was coming to get me!
Beautifully made movie , but brutal too because its true to life . It shows what rabbits actually have to go through . They live on the edge of survival most of the time .
Well... They don't actually maul each other to that degree. Violent conflict is rare, mostly related to looking for a mate and even then, rabbits usually don't use their teeth for that but rather have a fight reminiscent of a boxing or wredtling match, jumping on their back legs and using their paws (not claws) for attacking. In that regard the movie is very much over the top.
@@darthplagueis13 maybe the rabbit on rabbit violence is over the top. Would you prefer there to be more death by foxes and cats instead like in real life?
yeah like me when I read this book cause my mom was trafficking me during my childhood while I attended Junior High. I called her General Woundwort to her face and thought of our apartment where she brought the pedophiles to rape me as a type of Nazi prison camp for me because I realized Gen. Woundwort was meant to represent Hitler. We were studying WW2 in school. I called myself Hazel-rah or Fiver and I dreamed of a day when I would find a place of safety :) and now I found it woohooo! :) Thank you Richard Adams for writing such a wonderful book. :)
Personal experience: My mother was a movie critic, and thus I was invited (or rather, she was, but she was allowed to bring me) to a viewing of Watership Down before it premiered in Sweden. I was so shook up by Fiver's vision that the movie company got worried, and they later sent me a "goodie box" full of Watership Down stuff and a "we really hope you're fine now" card. Very kind of them. This also caused Sweden to start using new age limits (those being: Suitable for any age, 7, 7 with an adult as company, and 11) and to take animated movies seriously instead of just thinking that they're always okay for small children. I think WD was deemed "7 with an adult, 11 if alone". On a side note, the reason I got so upset was that I used to have visions much like Fivers. That made that scene unbearably scary to me.
I’m sorry if this comes across as insensitive but I think that’s really kwl. You were a huge reason for a serious change happening in your country. A change that still hasn’t properly happened in a lot of other countries.
Yo I’m also from Sweden and I didn’t even know we had those special age ratings, that’s pretty interesting. I know this comment is very old, but I hope you have a great day!
Great review! I was about 8 yrs old when this movie came out and as much as it kind of messed with my head it became my favorite animated movie and book (besides The Hobbit). Although I really see this movie geared more for young adults than little children. The book however, is a classic and so well written, I think it would benefit any child to read it.
@@Kill-It-Skin-It-Wear-It I had a rabbit named E.B and we had to.....take him out so to say and this just hit to hard for me cause he was a pretty clever snowball but I get what u r saying so don't get offended :D
@Star Shadows they are cute in their own unique way to rabbit owners and rabbit lovers like myself but I get wat u r saying so please I'm not trying to offend :D
@Star Shadows yeh I just don't understand beauty breeding or whatever they call it but at least it's not breeding like a puglike rabbit or something XD hopefully not
The Netflix adaption is actually really good. While the animation could have been a little better, everything else is perfect. Some intense scenes, but not an unnecessary amount of gore and violence. And the two songs! They're beautiful.
I actually prefer the Netflix adaptation because I think the old movie... Wait for it... Appears too childish. Yes, I mean it. Among the gore and blood and slightly unsettling suffocation scene (the one with the Sandleford rabbits underground), there are just some odd scenes that I dunno, feel like they really were intended for kids. It feels weird to have this mix of mature and kid-friendly themes. At least Netflix knew which side Watership Down was on. 13+, it says. Bigwig in the snare for example, felt more sad and impactful in the mini series.
My dad loved this movie. I remember finding it among our video collection when I was young and asking to watch it- both parents immediately told me I'd have to wait until I was older. I asked why and they explained it was too violent. I had trouble wrapping my head around that because the cover was so cute and I just wanted to see it more! Felt like a right of passage when they finally deemed me old enough.
I agree. The film is fine for appropriate audiences, but the rating system needed to catch the disturbing imagery. Here in the USA it was PG. This is a solid PG-13 at least.
Honestly, watching this film as a young child was horrible. I'm kind of sad I didn't get to enjoy it (can't really get past that childhood trauma lol) as I can see now that it's much more than the violence and could be a good watch. However, being a rabbit owner and having two that I love very much, I'd rather not watch a ton of rabbits die.
Cmdr_Johnpooky84 I agree with ya there. Classic Disney over modern any day. Also no, I’ve seen reviews on The Brave Little Toaster, but never have watched it.
@@LonelyHermit08 oh, that was my go-to movie as a kid. I think I watched it at least once a week. More, if I was sick. I highly recommend it (though avoid the sequels [Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue, and Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars] like the Plague, because they're AWFUL).
Hello? I need to schedule an appointment with my therapist. 4 P.m? Yes, that will be fine. Thank you. Oh, I saw a review of Water Ship Down, that's why I need an appointment.
traumatized as a child at the part where Holly is describing the horror of what happened back at the old burrow - still can't stop watching it because of just how horrifying it was - this whole movie is a visual masterpiece? and the part where Fiver goes to find his injured brother and follows the Black Rabbit to do so? MMM-! thats the tea
@Ron Maimon Because that's what he said??????? Yeah, I get it. He might have said it wrong but that's just what he said so we all took it as that. You didn't have to get annoyed. You could have just said so.
I watched at 6 years old in the 80's us in the 80 are made of tough stuff. Did I cry yes? Did I cry when bambi got shot when I watched it at 4? Yes. Did it scar me for life? Traumatize me? No. People today are such fucking pussies.
Warrior Cats doesn't have extreme gore, just blood and wounds and battles, along with cat birth, but it isn't grossly over-described. It mostly mentions the blood, and claws raking through skin and stuff. Nothing too bad. Not really for every kid out there, but people overreact when they say Warriors is extremely violent and gorey and stuff. That doesn't mean it's only for kids however, adults are fully allowed to enjoy it. I can't speak for Wings of Fire however, as I am only on book one. And Watership Down, the book, so far is quite alright too. I am on part 3 - Efrafa. Nothing too violent yet. Maybe it's just me that's not so easily disturbed but, Bigwig in the snare and captain Holly's escape just didn't really bother me too much? Sure, it's sad and must be awful to go through, but I didn't feel fear.
@@biancabianca2617 Of course, I've read the series up to Omen of the Stars' sixth book, and also the "Rise of Scourge" manga. I'm not sure if I wanna get more books, at least not the main series, since I can basically follow the recent story by watching videos about it and I don't like Dovewing nor Tigerheart anyway. I would want some of the super editions though, like Bluestar's Prophecy. I can read those at the same time as I read Wings of Fire (I usually read two books at a time, if they aren't related).
It is in the U.S. - or at least it was. 'Piss' was one of the seven dirty words that couldn't be said on tv. Don't know if that still applies for the big networks during late night.
PepsimanEnemyofCrime98 4ever Its not considered a curse word. Piss off in general is a very rude word to tell that person to mind their own business in a aggressive tone
When I was an older child I was told that piss was a bad word, but not technically a curse word. Before that I was told absolutely that it was a curse word. Like I remember when damn and hell were considered actual curse words and it seems like no one really counts them as ones anymore.
I love the vibe and wouldn’t have this movie any other way. I feel like it does what Bambi does but in a darker way. It captures the fleetingness of life a rabbit would feel and just feels very raw and hauntingly beautiful. The book wasn’t some allegory or personified symbol for anything. It was a story about rabbits and nature
Watership Down is a very HUMAN film. I loved it, even as a kid of 8-9. I cared about the characters. I remember we got a cat, a very big cat prone to eating a lot, and I wanted to name it "The General" because of it's size. My sisters voted it be called Mikey, and I was outnumbered. I'm reading through the book now, and the book is just great writing! This movie could be suitable for kids IF they are supervised by a caring adult who cares to explain the hard facts of life to their children. In an age of snowflakes and political correctness, I am appreciating this film more and more, and the book by Mr. Adams. By the way, in the intro to the book, Adams claims the story began as a way to entertain his own children during long trips. Children DO need exposure to the hard facts of life, and seeing those things happen to bunnies, not humans, might be a way to distance them enough, and lessen the trauma.
Dude, even if caring parents are there to explain the hard facts of life, the movie still can have a negative effect on some kids. It has a lot of traumatizing imaginary. The parents can give there kids talks on heavy subject matters like death, without the need to traumatize them. Also "Snowflakes" refers to people who can't handle other peoples' opinion, or who overact when someone insults them. But someone who might be sensitive to violence doesn't mean they're a snowflake.
If youre sensitive to violence or sensitive to anything at all youre weak. From weakness comes frustration and not a long way down that road comes grevious self expression. This translates itself to the "being a snowflake" term in the full pejorative meaning of it. Dont be weak. Dont traumatize your kids with gore withouth giving them contex though.
@@andrewabate2570 You use the other arrow bracket, like so: < It's the one over the top of your comma: this , = this < when you hold shift, then you type 3 as normal.
The Book is a masterpiece. Richard Adams made up stories to tell his children when he was walking them to school. These stories became the book eventually.
I remember I loved this film as a kid. I could never get through all of it, at some point I always got scared and shut off the TV. To this day, I have never finished this movie. But despite that, I always found it so incredibly fascinating because it was so different from any other animated movie I'd seen.
This was my favourite film as a kid. I watched a lot of nature programs so death and stuff didn't bother me and I preferred more realistic films like this over Disney. I also loved AOFW for the same reason
@@RYMAN1321 He refers to the Animals Of Farthing Wood, which is another very dark animated series based around nature and wildlife. Both Watership Down and AOFW are as tragic as you could imagine.
@@rodrigofranco6334 Sadly for some reason they decided to tone down drastically the violence in the latest seasons for no reason at all,really decreasing the entire point of watching the serie imo.
Mew 2 you Standards were different back then. Today a PG rated animated movie would never have such bloody violence in it like Watership Down which was rated PG but was made in 1978.
MultiSuperguy101 Right, right. Animated movies used to be much inappriote in the past for younger audience Luckily I saw Watership Down when I was thirteen 😥 So it didn't have much of effect on myself despite some shocking scenes what could scar for life 😨 But anyway, thank you pointing out your news 😁
This was actually out there for an animated movie. Most movies that were animated were seen as kids movies at the time. The reason it probably got such a low rating was because, I imagined, they assumed it was for children and didn’t watch it.
**Warning, Strong violent scenes with a hint of strong language** *watches part of video, and sees the "Censorship, protecting you from reality" board on the screen and hears a few bleeps* YOU FUCKING LIED TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought you were gonna show it all!!
What I really love is that the story was originally car-journey stories told by Adams to his daughters, who then helped him shape it into a more coherent tale and was quite adamant about some points in the story. So when people say it's not for kids...well...yes and no. That said, reading it is probably easier than watching it. Probably.
@Oggatha Christie I think you're the first one to ever ask about the name. Thank you. :) Given that it's a nick I've had for...oh, 13 years at this point, I had to go back to the book to make sure what I remembered was right, and actually, Fu Inlé means 'after moonrise' (first line in chapter four), so it'd be Moonrise Badger, actually. Corny, yes, but at the time, it worked. :)
I used Watership Down as a way to describe to my kids to brutality of warfare (because games like Fortnite made the eldest think that shooting was cool) and chatted about it afterwards. Out of an 8, 5, 4 and 3 year old it was the 5 and 4 year olds who simply 'got it' by saying "They fight to have a new home". It was the same when I showed them and talked about an animated video for the song "Mariners Revenge" by the Decemberists. IMO it all depends on how we approve Watership Down to children how it can actually be beneficial to them. Plus it's backing lore is fantastic!
This was one of my favourite films when I was little. Then I read the book in middle school, then rewatched the film. It scared the heck out of 6th grade me.
So true lol. As a kid I had literal nightmares about this movie. Now as an adult it sticks in the back of my mind from sheer raw emotion it conjured in me as a kid. And on top of that, rewatching it I can say it’s actually a really good movie
Reading all these comments I see a fair amount saying that this movie is fine for kids because it teaches them about things like death. I think that's pretty ridiculous. A good talk to kids about these heavy topics is all that's needed. Movies like these are most likely going to leave a child traumatized. It depends on the child, yes. But in general, I'd say it would have an overall negative effect on them.
i LOVED this movie as a child... and at the same time that buried alive theme may have made me claustrophobic, and gave me general nightmares of much of the types of imagery throughout the movie. This movie haunts my childhood and I had to rewatch it as an adult. definitely a bit slow but it fits the melancholy. such a bizarre but beautiful movie.
On the old VHS tapes it had a PG rating, then they changed it to a U rating, they do that a lot nowadays, like the first Terminator movie the VHS tapes were 18 rating now the DVD's are 15.
Explains why my parents were OK with me watching Terminator at 15, then when we went to Universal (still 15) the tour guide was shocked I'd seen it so young since it's 'rated R' in his words. (Which confused me as I thought that was American for the 15+ rating.)
The film was never rated PG in Britain. It was classified U for cinema release in 1978, then for VHS in 1987, then DVD in 2006, and then for Blu-Ray in 2013. You probably had the Australian VHS (which was rated PG)
My Mom read Watership Down to me and my siblings when we were little and she knew Bigwig wouldn't die so when she read his fake out death scene she went all in....and I mean ALL in. Some how she held back laughter as she dramatically described how blood flew everywhere, how he foamed at the mouth, how his eye bulged about to burst and me and my siblings screamed in horror or sat jaw dropped, unable to speak. Yeahhhhhh.....she totally traumatized us. This is one of her favorite books, and I wonder if her fun tormenting us give her her high love of Watership Down. All I know, is I can't wait to have kids one day and share the tradition with them!😄
Was taken as a 4 year old in 1978 to see this. I was traumatised I kept having to be taken outside to calm down, I was in consolable when Violet was taken, hearing "Violets gone" even now makes me well up. The ending where Hazel dies and the death rabbit leads him off with the bright eyes theme tune set the water works off again. Looking forward to seeing the remake on TV at weekend.
I'm 22 now, and I still remember seeing Watership Down for the first time when I was in second grade. I still remember the song "Bright Eyes" and the end fight between the rabbits. I also remember seeing Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki at around the same time. How I got to certain movies at that age, I still have no idea.
I was scared by this as a kid. It was up to shock factor because I was like 8 and thought it was a normal fun bunny movie. And that scene with the rabbits crammed in the tunnel was one of the scenes that stuck with me. I wasn't even a sensitive kid I watched tons of unsuitable crap but because I wasn't expecting it and it was animals this stuck with me.
One of my favourite films of all times. I loved it as a kid and I love it now. Although I still to this day cannot listen to Bright Eyes without getting teary eyed.
We read the book in 6th grade, then watched the movie after that. Everyone was traumatized and looking away but I loved it. I was a messed up child, but that was also my edgiest phase where I constantly talked about death and guts. Also I thought the seagull said back off
I'd heard of this movie, but had never seen it until this morning. I was bawling my eyes out at the end (I'm 36, by the way). Addon: I may have been crying at the end, but I'm definitely going to watch it again. It's a great movie.
When I was about 7 or so, this traumatized me to the level that I actually had to repress my memory. I could hardly remember anything in this film until I happened to find this video. I almost thought I imagined this horrifying shit myself! And now, as a 21 year-old, I still find this unsettling.
Toutu Yeah, this really was misrated. I don’t believe fully in our rating system but people should be able to say “maybe a five year old shouldn’t watch this yet.”
I love the Watership Down movie! The film is filled with beautifully animated realism to depict what the real life in nature is really like and just how brutally cruel it can be. The film also has excellent voice acting, a spectacularly well made story, and I also love how it stayed truthful and didn't drive away from it's source material although the novel being slightly different in some areas. The only thing I disagree is of course the classification, I would of rated it a 12 or 12A if ever re-released in cinemas but I don't focus on it too much, I focus more on the exceeding creativity that the film offered and how this film has inspired me of true animation and filmmaking and how creative someone can adapt something!
I wached it as a small kid. Multiple times. I got nightmares every time. (Especially the scene with the bunnies getting trapped).. but there was something about the movie that made me want to watch it again.
Watership down wasn't meant for children. I have read the book and I watched all the movies. And I'm 12! I have 3 bunny's in real life and Watership down is a great story. If parents show this movies their 2,3,4,5 or 6 year old kids then it's not the movies fault. When the movie came out there wasn't animation. It's only reality. In the reality nothing is happy. This is the real life on rabbits. And sorry for my bad English I'm from Germany
Absolutely right. The book is classic piece of English literature. The writing was beautiful and had superlative pros. The film is about the book. The only thing that mattered was the book, not making a kiddy movie. I don't think that the reviewer really got that.
I first watched this movie at age 10 and absolutely adored it and was so mesmerized by it. I still love it to this day. Theres no other animated film like it
The violence is so glorified in this film but its barely 1/10 of the film. It has some adult theme's and I think it toughens up your kids and, if they can handle it, will end up asking legit questions about things compared to Disney films which do everything for you..
My family and I have attempted to watch several films that said they were PG-13, but were too graphic/ had too many cuss words to continue. But once we watched Terminator (rated R), and it actually turned out to be not as bad as most PG-13 films. Ratings can be confusing sometimes
I remember watching this as a kid. Dad brought it home to watch. I was skeptical as hell, I mean a film about rabbits? Yea this is going to be boring as hell. Started watching and was actually amazed at not only just the artwork but how weird as shit as it was.
I actually own the Watership Down book. It’s rather good. Although there are two things that stand out to me between the film and the book. The seagull (who’s name I will never remember) had a very hard to distinguish accent in the book. You would have to read his sentences a few times to fully understand what he was trying to say. You got used to it eventually, but it would trip people up at times. In the movie, it’s a bit easier to understand him. Which was probably a very smart choice. Another thing is that in the book there was a *lot* more characters in Hazel and Fiver’s group that went along with them. Like, the rabbits that were in the group during the movie was barely half of who actually came along. Although I also understand this, as it would be next to impossible to animate so many rabbits by hand and make them not seem completely pointless. But either way, the book and the movie are both really great and I recommend them
I watched this film a few years ago for the first time (At 14yo), hearing about how scary and gruesome it was, so I was interested, but when I finished, I was in love with this film, and I still am. I also enjoyed the TV series and the MiniSeries.
I can't believe that this movie is rated pg! These violent scenes in this movie are something that you would see in a R-Rated movie! This should be rated at the very very least Pg-13 or 14a
I first saw the Watership Down TV series on CITV & has been one of my earliest memories. I didn’t see the film til I was 12 on Channel 4. I got used to the violence, understanding that nature is cruel. I watched the BBC/Netflix miniseries at Christmas & I absolutely loved it!
Awesome review. I can't talk about this movie to this day without welling up or having to step away and gather my thoughts. I saw this in New Zealand as a 6 year old child and have been permanently scared. Now I know it was a U rating, this makes more sense as my mother would have not taken me to such a film. Every time Bright Eyes played on the radio as a child I would start sobbing uncontrollably.
Fun story regarding this movie. I was no more than like 7 or 8 years old when I was at Walmart with my mom, and this happened to be in the sale section for DVDs. Having absolutely know idea the actual plot, I begged my mom to buy it because I loved rabbits, and at this time my family actually owned two pet bunnies. Evidently my mother didn’t know the plot either, cause she got it for me. Went home and watched is that same evening, so excited to see a movie about cute animated bun buns. I’m now 23 years old and that night still haunts me, I was beyond traumatized and lost nearly all of my innocence lol
this is one of my favorite movies, I remember watching it with my dad as a little kid. If I ever have kids I'll let them watch it, along with the last unicorn, the secret of NIHM, the land before time and the dark crystal
BetaNumber202 ErrorCode404 Well what kind of parent are you if you don't help your kids realize what the world can REALLY BE LIKE??? The world is not like a pixar film. Would I shove this film down my kids throat? No, but I would sorta passively challenge them, if they felt they were ready to see a film like that. There were plenty of films, comics that scared the shit outta me as a kid. Robin's death in the batman comic " Death in the family", and Frankensteins' wife's death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.. You know what it did, it made me tougher..
I’d recommend them being eight to ten really. Not into assigning age to movies but I want my kid to see the good in the world before they see the bad. Not to say this movie doesn’t show good, but a young child may not see the message. I’d be happy to show them the Last Unicorn at any age though. It’s the perfect existential crisis. The movie touched on this, but the book really talked about immortality and what that meant, and what it’s like to have that gone. Even though the movie had a hard time making up its mind, it had the right idea.
