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These 49 Life Lessons From Disney Movies Are Both Awful And Funny At The Same Time
When it comes to the horrible life lessons from Disney movies, there are a lot of them. Some are philosophical, hitting the core of human morality, while others are simpler. Disney movies can instill these harsh and even awful lessons through fun and colorful images. From kids to online users, some of the best Disney movies and their lessons can, and should, be avoided by everyone.
A life lesson from these movies should not be taken literally. For example, if you were to take Aladdin, one of the classic Disney movies, you can see it shows an easy way of opening up a melon — crack it with your knee. In reality, it is almost impossible to do it. Luckily, their movies do what they want, and it is left to us, the viewers, to judge the lesson's application in real life.
Want to learn some harsh life lessons from the new and old Disney movies? User adamtwosleeves asked a question on AskReddit related to this topic — “What’s the worst lesson someone could learn from a Disney movie?” With so many life lessons, upvote the ones you will try to avoid. On the other hand, if you have your own poor life lesson from these movies, share it in the comments below.
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"Your toys are alive and resent you for giving them away."
user replied: "An even worse lesson from Toy Story: Kids who show creativity and imagination by disassembling toys to make new toys are evil and should be psychologically tortured."
"If you see a chick sleeping just go right up to her and start kissing."
"Just repeatedly bludgeon someone with a cast-iron skillet, so hard that they black out. They'll be fine, don't worry. And it's funny!"
user comments: "Hey bud. I'll have you know it was a frying pan!"
BTLOTM replied: "You know it could also be... a drying pan."
heartlikeabomb comments: "We just talked about this in our staff meeting this morning (I’m a social worker) because we have a teen girl who was hitting her sister and eventually upgraded to using a cast iron skillet. Some coworkers were talking about video games but I said she probably learned it from Tangled."
"From Aladdin, I thought melons could easily be cracked open over my knee.
Some tears and a very bruised knee later, I found that this was not, in fact, a real thing."
Puck-Ey: "This is the most specific and the most tragic."
"True love evolves from a kidnapping."
I never got that. Belle wasn't really smitten until the cheesiest part where he turns back into human form. The rest of the time I just saw a girl trying to endure an abusive, temperamental creature and try to show him the error of his ways. I guess the problem with that aspect is that you can't just change someone because you want them to, or think they should for their own good. People don't change like that. How many women and girls get in relationships with hot-headed, "bad boys" trying to change them just to end up hurt or worse.
"One or both parents need to die before kids can realize their full potential."
EarlyHemisphere replied: "I'm just gonna sit around all day."
*parent dies*
"I'd better learn how to save the entire world fast."
Disney hates 2 parent families ... it's not depressing enough. One has to be devastated to become great.
"If you have a problem, just run away from it and build your own badass castle on a mountain - forget about everyone that loves you or depends on you."
"If you don't have a dress for the ball at the castle, just go and sulk in a room full of rodents."
user replied: "Those rodents got some mad sewing skills though."
"Don't try to kill all those friendly rats in your kitchen, they'll help you cook gourmet meals."
"No, there is no such thing as princesses. No, you can't grow up to be a princess...
Oh God damnit Meghan Markle!"
"It’s perfectly normal if you see a candelabra and a clock having an argument."
"If you are pure of heart you can approach wild animals. Unless you want 20 needles in the stomach don't do this."
You also need to hang out with seven short men with psychological disorders.
"That death and abandonment are real and Walt had no problem showing it to us poor kids."
"That everything works out in the end, and that the world is a just place. Kind people don't always succeed and cruel people don't always get punished."
Just because you can’t see the waves doesn’t mean the sea is still, there are always ripples, you can’t make everyone happy and no matter what there is always fighting, but the few people who you can make happy reach out and make other people feel better too, just like when one person is having a bad day they usually can get angrier easily
"That marriage is the end goal, rather than the start of the journey."
YES. All the characters are young and live "happily ever after" because they found a spouse. It's not like that.
"Don’t be ugly."
treemu comments: "You could shower your crush with affection and they still won't see you the way you see them. The key is to deal with it and move on."
BlushBrat replied: "And that's what a lot of people miss and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Esmeralda is used to comparing Quasimodo's character, and Frollo's character. Frollo wants to possess her, and can't fathom the idea of her choosing differently, where Quasimodo is like if she just wants to be my friend, then I'm okay with that."
I don’t think there is such thing as ugly, No matter what every person has something beautiful about them, and it stands out, people are amazing, whether or not they think that of themselves, Everyone has at least 1000 things about themselves that is beautiful.
"Stepmoms are evil. Marriage is hard, especially when one party already has a child with someone else, cut some slack!"
"Not listening to your parents and putting yourself in a dangerous situation will get you a happily ever after."
Nah this had a deeper message than that. Ariel saw there were good in humans, tolerant and wanted to learn more about them. She was educating herself instead of living in ignorance and hate like King Triton did.
"That glass shoes are cool. Who the f*ck wears glass shoes!? Somebody who wants a severed Achilles’ tendon the first time they go dancing, that’s who."
The version I had as a kid it was a golden slipper and the ugly sisters cut off their toes and heels to try and fit their feet in it
"Falling in love at first sight with the first possible suitor. At least Frozen poked fun at it."
Maiclopedia replied: "It poked fun at it, but it didn't do a very good job. It was wrong for Anna to marry Hans, who she had known for 2 hours, but it was OK for Kristoff to try and save her with true love's Kiss after knowing her for... 20 hours! What a difference! I know that in the end, it was Anna's love for Elsa that did the trick, but I always found that part funny."
"If you meet a fat dude who is claiming he's a Demigod in the middle of an island in the middle of the goddamn sea, at least 50% of the time you're gonna get killed."
"That spaghetti is a romantic food."
Honestly, as little girls, how many of us would have loved this being our first date? It was so romantic! I always practiced slurping my spaghetti ... one day hoping for my 'tramp".
"Just keep dreaming and wishing, it will come true. I like that Princess and the Frog took that idea and added the concept of working toward your wishes/dreams too."
Ellausy replied: "I love this movie, severely underrated. It shows how hard work is necessary for life to prosper, even when your circumstances are not the best. And that sometimes, you don't have to do it all alone, good friends and hard work make things so much better.
I find that the more modern movies don't rely on this wishful thinking as much as the older ones."
*dark side of me turns off for this comment* my dad says Tiana is his favortie disney princess because she was the only one with a job
"Stay with an abusive arsehole long enough and he'll eventually stop being a monster."
start_the_mayocide replied: "The real lesson of this movie is at the beginning. The witch cursed everyone for something one person did. The lesson being is that collective punishment is real and will happen to you if you associate with the wrong people by chance. All those servants in the castle were cursed for having a job and associating with the Beast. It wasn't their fault but were cursed and the only way to lift the curse was to hope that an a*shole fell in love."
the funny thing is that the story of beauty an the beast was supposed to show how bad arranged marriage is but Disney ruined it.
"That everything's better down where it's wetter, under the sea. The ocean is a dangerous place, kids. We all float down here."
"Wild animals are your friends. You can pet them with zero consequences."
She's living with 7, moody, short guys. Snow White doesn't make the best decisions.
"You can tell someone is a villain by their facial hair."
Pakushy comments: "Well, there is that one style of mustache..."
spyfox321 replied: "I mean. Can you actually trust someone with a goatee? I think not."
Goatees are a sign of evil in movies and cartoons
"Everyone in a castle has a different shoe size."
Silver_Yuki replied: "If you read previous editions of Cinderella there is a reason for this.
She was locked away in a dungeon by her stepmom with a bunch of rats who ate her toes off, so her shoe size was way smaller than everyone else in the realm."
"The Lion King: you can take someone’s job if you throw them off a cliff."
Saucy_Totchie comments: "I mean Scar was technically in line for the throne. Mufasa is dead and Simba, Mufasa's only heir, was nowhere to be found. Crown then just falls to Scar."
"Aladdin: If you want someone to fall in love with you, pretend to be somebody you're not."
They fall in love with the fake you, if they don’t love you for who you are they aren’t worth it
"That if you want to learn English, all you have to do is listen to the colors of the wind."
PukefrothTheUnholy replied: "Oh, you listen with your heart to learn English, not the colors of the wind. You paint with the colors of the wind. And sing with all the voices of the mountains. I watched that movie way too many times because it has the best music."
"If you have a crush on someone, they're worth risking your life for."
I ain't risking my life for no man ever. (Unless it's Keefe Sencen ❤️)
"As a woman, you need a man in order to escape servitude or capture."
Also, he didn't recognize her at all! She had to have a pretty dress and glass shoes. Is that saying men are blind if you don't look good? In other words, dress up, look nice, and a man will notice you. Proving Prince Charming is shallow.
"That every girl has a man waiting for her, and the man is the only one, that can complete her life and create a happy ending."
and he can save her ... Prince Charming will always be there to save you.
"I thought that if my singing voice was pretty enough that all the pretty birds would come around."
"Things will always work out... as long as you’re pretty."
"That the world is divided into absolute good and absolute evil.
So many of our problems, as humans, come from our inability to relate to people from other cultures or different political viewpoints."
"Violent outbursts and anti-social behavior, not the best foundation for a healthy relationship, Belle."
To be fair, she had no respect for him until he stopped that c**p. As for the hostage situation, I got nothing.
"Hereditary monarchies are the only morally justifiable system of government."
"That love conquers all. It doesn't."
"A man you’ve never even talked to, only admired from afar, is worth selling your soul to the devil for (no Ariel, no)."
LeafyQ comments: "Ariel already wanted to live on land long before she ever saw Eric. She sang 'Part of Your World' about all the things of human life that fascinated her, not about Eric at all. I’m 100% sure she’d have made the deal even if she’d never seen him."
