Title: The G-rated Disney movies for kids with the least G-rated themes - Polygon
Headings: The G-rated Disney movies with the least G-rated themes
The G-rated Disney movies with the least G-rated themes
A look back at what the ratings board thought kids could and couldn’t handle
The Lion King (1994)
Pocahontas (1995)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Mulan (1998)
Tarzan (1999)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
While Disney watered down the more intense, macabre themes of Victor Hugo’s novel, the villain’s main motivation is that he’s horny for a woman who won’t reciprocate his advances, so he decides to burn her at the stake and commit genocide. Judge Frollo starts out as a racist hypocrite, but his creepy lust spurs his master plan into action. A whole sequence involves Frollo and his lackeys rounding up the Romani people and eventually setting fire to an innocent family’s house. The opening sequence sees him running down a young woman on horseback and kicking her to death without remorse, then nearly throwing her baby down a well. ( For what it’s worth, if you’re a real stickler, this is also the animated Disney movie that gets closest to swearing: When hunchback Quasimodo recites his daily alphabet, he says “Damnation!” for the letter D and “Eternal Damnation!” for E.)
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Mulan (1998)
This is the only Disney movie that explicitly takes place in the middle of a war. The moment when Mulan’s pals joyfully sing about their romantic fantasies, then stop short when they discover a desolated village, burnt to the ground, all its inhabitants slain, is absolutely chilling.