For kids of the 1980s and 90s, our favourite childhood films represent everything that was great about being young in those decades - the clothes, the hair, the music, the slapstick bad guys and underdog heroes. The terrible truth, however, is that kids make awful film critics. As children, we don't question the cinematography or judge the acting, we are just happy to be along for the ride, no matter how bad it actually is. Nostalgia is a curious thing, protecting things we loved as children like a blinkered shield, But if we were able to lift that sepia tint, we would see that we often choose to remember the good parts while subconsciously blocking out the bad, and the same goes for the way we remember the movies we watched as children. While this period in cinematic history did produce some unforgettable and truly iconic kids movies (rest assured, you won't find The Goonies or E.T. on this list) there were also a lot of films that clung to the coat tails of far better ones and ended up being considered cult classics as a result. Sadly, a significant proportion of films you once thought of as timeless are actually quite the opposite. From shameless Spielberg rip-offs to incredibly lazy Disney adaptations, here are 13 films that you absolutely adored as a child, but will totally hate as an adult...
13. Space Jam (1996)
Space Jam was just about the coolest thing ever when it came out back in 1996, teaming global superstar Michael Jordan with Bugs Bunny much to the delight of young boys the world over. In this half live-action, half animated feature, Jordan takes to the court to help the Looney Tunes gang defeat a team of alien creatures who plan to kidnap the toons and transport them to a failing intergalactic amusement park, where they will be paraded as a new attraction. As head-scratching as the plot is, you barely get time to question it when watching Space Jam as an adult, instead asking yourself why the animation is so damn awful. Even Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a live-action/animation hybrid that came out eight years beforehand in 1988 was a lot easier on the eye. No matter how much spin you put on it, this film was little more than a cynical attempt to cash in on the popularity of Jordan and the resurgence of Warner Bros' cartoons, and it even manages to make a Bill Murray cameo boring.
