Where's the dark edge?

I grew up to really miserable kids films like watership down, the lord of the rings, wind in the willows, it had a dark edge but continued its charm and attraction to children, it also never patronised us so I I can still watch them all now without feeling any pain of embarrassment as there seems something to attract equally to adults.

I can't say this of the films they're making lately, from the dreadful "tooth" of a few years ago, up to and including the latest trinian's films and now this. It seems there's some family in epsom who's controlling all this tat, it just seems aimed completely at the prudish middle classes and not to the country as a whole, it's painful viewing and definitely sends the wrong message to those overseas i.e. that we're still a bunch of tea drinking middle class eccentrics.

I await the day when children's films involve death and misery, then the world won't be such a shock when they get out into it. I don't care if this sounds unreasonably cyncial, I just want decent kids films made again.