‘Turning Red’ Had Some People Thinking It’s Too Mature, But These 10 Disney Classics Are What’s Not Appropriate

Have you watched “Turning Red”? It’s one of Disney’s newest adorable movies with so many relatable characters and a realistic portrayal of relationships between friends and family.

At the same time, it’s also refreshingly cute, entertaining, and even educative for children!

But then we also have opinions saying it was “too mature” and this is why we can’t have nice things.

That is because, obviously, some of Disney classics (that we admittedly loved as well) are way more children-friendly with getting married at 14 and selling your voice, literally, over a man you’ve never even talked to.

Sleeping Beauty

There is something about Disney thinking being kissed when you’re unable to give consent to be something to die for. It doesn’t look like Aurora minded since she literally gets to not sleep forever, but come on.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

This movie’s whole story was so not-for-children at all. The villain attempts to murder a baby just 10 minutes into the story and wants to sleep with Esmeralda before trying to burn her on a stake for refusing his advances. How do you even begin to explain these things?

The Little Mermaid

She left her home, her family, and most of her friends so she can try to chase after her crush who doesn’t even know her. And to top it off, she was only 16 years old. Honestly, this is the only line that we can fully support now as adults.

Aladdin

Spoiler alert: you can’t really trust this guy. He faked his whole identity to woo over Jasmine’s heart. Jasmine was only 15. Well, at least she did get mad over him and made sure he apologized for it. And then this scene where she literally tries to seduce Jafar is also pretty “mature”, don’t you think?

The Lion King

How many of us not realize that Scar was Mufasa’s blood brother who also framed him for his death when we watched the movies as children? Rewatching the whole sequence was probably one of the scariest things because of just how horrid the situation was, especially when Simba literally spent the night next to his father’s corpse.

Lilo & Stitch

It is definitely not too mature to show children how Lilo and Nani are so helpless and powerless in this scene where Lilo was about to be dragged away by the CPS.

Beauty and the Beast

Nothing screams more like toxicity than literally putting a woman into captivity and trying to court them to release your curse. Of course, it ended up well for them, but there were so many red flags here, we don’t even know where to start. Maybe with that true love doesn’t make one kidnap the other.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Disturbing was probably the perfect way to describe this. Oh, boy. There’s the evil witch who tries to kill her, there’s the fact that she’s a pretty much innocent 14-year-old, and that she’s very much a sheltered girl who jumps into love blindly.

Oh, and the non-consensual kiss. If it wasn’t for plot progression, we would’ve been a whole lot madder.

Dumbo

Dumbo was absolutely wasted here. Sure those hiccups are cute, but getting a literal child wasted isn’t really “family-friendly” either, is it?

Toy Story 3

What do you mean this isn’t traumatizing? This is just a bunch of toys accepting their doom and seeing the silver lining that they’re at least together until the end. Nothing too “mature”.

Or this monkey.

Evil judges, talking toys, and toxic boyfriends with temper issues are all definitely less mature than this movie.