This movies has traumatized me. A day later and I'm still crying. Being so emotional as an adult watching this I don't know how a child could. It's incredibly sad and depressing. Not a happy ending at all. We got it on eve but I don't even know if I could ever watch it again.
shareEh I loved it. Was sad yeah, but not traumatic. We've watched it every day in our house since it came out.
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I'm with you. Very sad at the end and the journey to the hibernation spot was more of a funeral procession imo. I was crying and trying not to let the kids see me. This was a new story, they didn't have any plot they needed to "stick with" for Disney purists and they could have tweaked it anyway they wanted to. They could have decided to let the beast live with the fairies happily ever after like the kid's story that it was supposed to be but instead they chose to end it in a really terribly downbeat way. Now, was the movie cute, was it good? Yes, I think it was up until the very end. Then it sucked. It was much darker than some of the other fairy films but the beast was really adorable in his own way and I think it would have been so much better to think he was off playing with the fairies rather than abandoned in some dark cave.
He wasn't abandoned, he was laid to rest, so to speak, with love. I think it was a good choice to have a different kind of ending, children should grow up understanding everything is not always happy. This movie and the ending could be a lesson in helping with the passing of a beloved pet for a child or adult. I applaud them for doing something different.
shareI felt the same way! I watched it with my 5 year old son and husband and they both looked at me like I lost my mind at the ending. It was like a funeral because they wouldnt see him again! Crying my eyes out and my son is asking whats wrong hes just taking a nap.
shareI just saw it for the first time today. If you would like to sue Disney for pain and suffering, I am with you all the way.
I see a lot of animals "laid to rest" at my work. I didn't need to see it in a children's film. In ANY way.
Life isn't always fair, I know that, but movies are an ESCAPE from that. I do not like films that remind me of pain I already know all too well.
They need to do a 7th movie and bring him back somehow. I expected a happy ending and I damn well deserve one.
I don't think anything will ever trump The Lion King in this regard though! Although, I cried my little eyes out over Gruff too. Getting teary now...
And then the movie just ended! Without so much as attempting to ease my pain!
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When my daughter (aged 7) was leaving the cinema after watching this she was even more thoughtful than usual and only remarked "For the first time they made a SAD Tinkerbell movie. But I liked it..." When I remarked it had some bittersweet quality to it she agreed after first enquiring what "bittersweet" meant. She loved it and said it was the perfect word to describe life.
I must say I loved the concept. How it included some painful stuff not shying away from it and escaping from it, but somehow making the pain more one of parts of life experience, by putting it in context. I like how it introduced the hibernation thing, very gently. It didn't have anything drastic in it, at the same time showing that some farewells are indeed final. If you look into Grimms and other fairy tales they are far more drastic than that.
I just watched it. Has a bittersweet ending. Gruff didn't die so it isn't bad. A lot of animals hibernate. Just sad that he has to sleep so long.