Believe it or not, the word s**t appears in the story after the kid is imprisoned by the agency and calls his family. While the kid talks to dad, the brother yells in the backgroud "Don't take any s**t David!". Evidently assuming that a Disney flick would be a clean as freshly opened band-aid, TV's Wonderful World of Disney played the film in its entirety; and that's including the line in question!
shareI just rented this movie via NetFlix and watched it last night for the first time in years. For a Disney movie, I was surprised by the swearing. There's even a "God damn." Not that it bothered me, but it just made me laugh and say, "Man, you'd never hear that in a Disney family film nowadays."
shareOne of the NASA guys also says "Holy Sh*t its an alien!" when David first boards the spaceship.
shareA "bastard" also creeped in. I was pretty shocked. 0_o How things have changed.
I would watch it again and again. - blinkmaneast90, IMDb
This film wasn't marketed as a Disney film, as I recall. It was on a different label, one that they use when the film is "too adult" for the main Disney brand, like Touchstone.
shareI figured Disney might not have released it, but since Disney had a hand in releasing this on DVD, I'm a little surprised too, that the certain naughty words weren't edited out.
[deleted]
"So what if the films old, they could and should have edited those bits out."
Why try and ruin it for everyone else? They shouldn't censor those bits at all, and I'm glad they didn't - you should always check a film before showing to your kids, even if it is "Suitable for all"
"It's bad enough kids have to listen to that kind of language in real life."
It's better that you teach them to not use those words, rather than try to avoid hearing them altogether.
I disagree. Kids are gonna wind up hearing those words eventually anyway. The movie's rated PG, and if parents have a problem with their kids hearing and possibly repeating those words, they should tell their kids that they're bad words, and should only be used by "grown-ups". Or something like that.
I want...I want...I WANT EVERYTHING I'VE EVER SEEN IN THE MOVIES!
True, they'll hear it, but having it in a kid oriented movie is like giving them permission to say it.
shareWhen I was a kid this was the first movie I ever sat through and did not move, I was mesmorized by it. As a kid I never noticed the bad words (nor did I ever repeat them). I was too engrosed in the movie to care about them, as most kids will be. Who knows how many times I watched that film when i was a kid, Still to this day it is a favorite movie of mine. I rented it a couple year back and I will admit I was kinda shocked for a second when I heard the line, But after stopping to think about it I relized it was a differnt time back then. Part of the reason we are shocked by this now is cuase disney is so "sugar coated" anymore, we had forget what disney was back then they were a real differnt film maker then they are now. And yes they do have to hear the language in real life, but it's more likly that they will pick it up in real life rather than from it being said a couple times in a very good film.
shareI wonder sometimes if they threw in some rather mild word's to be assured of getting a PG rating? I know it's not the "in thing" today for a kid to go to a G rated movie anymore sadly! That's if you can find a G rated movie at all. Maybe it was like that in 1986 too! This is a great movie with a good music score!!! I was very pleased to locate a "MINT" 16mm theatrical print of it on Kodak LPP "low fade" stock.
--TP
[deleted]
Yeah really. Frankly any parent shouldn't be too suprised by swearing in kids movies in the 70's and 80's, because it was quite the norm. "The Sandlot" in 1993 was one of the last kids movies I liked that still had quite a bit of swearing and had that "80's kids flick" feel to it (while the film itself took place in the 60's). You wanna talk messed up 80's Disney though then watch "Return To Oz". It's one of the scariest most messed up kids movies you could watch, lol.
shareI just watched this on the Hallmark channel and I was quite surprised when it said it was "edited for content" just before flashing the Disney logo. What could they possibly want to censor out of Disney flick? Now I know. None of the cussing mentioned in this thread was included in this showing. Still a great flick with our without. It's got the magic Disney used to make by combining good special effects (or animation) with a story that is engaging for the young or the young at heart. Thankfully, Pixar has picked up the ball Disney dropped back in the 80's. It's ironic that "Pixar" is actually mentioned in the flick when describing one of the creatures onboard the ship.
share[deleted]
[deleted]
Is it that language in movies back then was that "bad," or have we simply "steriled" life since then? Back them those words were allowed in PG films, and parents were forced to "parent" their children. Imagine that! Now we try to clean most things up and/or provide ratings and warnings for everything else.
On the other hand, we do have some forms of media and entertainment that went sharply in the other direction (More cussing. Extreme violence. Sex.).
When life is too sterile, people often look for ways t express themselves - and to rebel. Of course the typical rebellion becomes "steile" and boring after a while. Eventually it seems that the more we try to "protect" society, the faster people often rebel once they get the chance.
Does this mean that I am ENTIRELY anti-censorship and anti-rules? Nope. But I do believe that there should be some sort of limit to it. If rules become too extreme, people often forget how to make good judgements for themselves.
[deleted]
I hate the unecessary censorship of movies. I can just about accept the censoring of derogatory language, but for swear words used in scenarios such as mentioned above. Like "holy *beep* it's an alien" are understandable. If you just saw an alien in real life, I bet you'd swear too.
That's one of the reasons why I love this movie in the first place, it takes a children film but makes it feel real, by keeping parts of it dark and grown up.
[deleted]
yeah but remember after that the father hated when he said that that he was like hey hey. like as if he was going to say hey don't use that language or something.
share