This past weekend, I found myself watching An American Tail at 2 a.m. Read the full post.
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Mufasa’s death in “The Lion King”. I’ve seen that movie dozens of times, so I know what’s coming and when it’s coming, but no matter how hard I brace myself, I still cry like a baby EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I got to the point where I had to fast foward through that part b/c I just couldn’t take it
Me too!! That was the first movie I ever cried at, when I saw it in the theatres at the tender age of seven, and I’ve cried ever since every time I have to endure it.
Same! My mom still talks about one day getting out of the shower and seeing little 5 year old me on the couch SOBBING. She was like, “WHAT HAPPENED” and I was like, “Mufasa diiiied.”
I agree, The Lion King is probably the saddest cartoon I know. The Mufasa part gets me every time, especially when Simba starts saying, “Dad? Dad wake up…” and cries.
I was able to handle most of the comments here until I read the Simba quote you posted…omg. Tears at work. Not cool!
I can’t believe I had to scroll down that many comments to see The Lion King. That stampede scene still crushes me. I can’t even watch the movie with my niece because of it.
That scene is definitely the one that makes me cry – even just thinking about it. It’s made even worse when Simba is made to think it’s his fault that Mufasa died.
I totally agree. Mufasa’s death and then again when Simba sees his face in the sky. So sad!!
The Last Unicorn when all of the unicorns get free at the end.
This was hands-down my favorite movie as a young child. I’m not totally sure why, as it has kind of a sad ending. But I do get chills thinking about all the unicorns charging out of the ocean and running back to their homes.
Oh God The Last Unicorn…it took me like two years before I could stop crying whenever I saw the words “last” or “unicorn”.
Good call! The Last Unicorn always makes me cry. I also cry at the end of Mulan, Horton Hears a Who and Meet the Robinsons. As for Toy Story 3, I couldn’t even talk about the movie after leaving the theater. So fantastically emotional. Excellent cinema.
i cried reading all these comments. i think my worst was when i broke down after finding nemo thinking about much that dad loved his son to go through all that trouble.
Yes! Finding Nemo! I always tell people I cried through the beginning of this movie and they act like I’m crazy, but first Nemo’s dad loses his wife and 199 of his future children, and then his little Nemo is take from him. Just watching Nemo speed away into the abyss and his dad is watching? Heartbreaking.
Without fail, I cry every time Dumbo’s goes to see his mother in the cage. His mom rocking him with her trunk, the song “Baby Mine” playing in the background. It’s a waterwork of tears. Thinking about it now, my eyes are already starting to well up. Darn you Disney!
Just hearing that song even when not watching the movie makes me cry!
“Up” had me sobbing within the first five minutes – just amazing animation and moving music. And then again at the end – when they are sitting on the curb eating ice cream together, that darn music comes on and I start crying all over again. I don’t know why – maybe it’s just the lonely kid in me enjoying their acceptance of each other. Or maybe I’m just spending too much time watching Disney cartoons.
I cried through this whole movie. I thought it was just because I was pregnant and my emotions were like a roller coaster. Nope…it’s really THAT sad.
I was fine until the end at the boy scout ceremony! The flood gates opened and i cried for a good half hour AFTER the movie had ended. I’ve never cried so hard over a cartoon.
Oof, I’m with you, kc. The Boy Scout ceremony definitely got me. The opening of Up was very moving, but I didn’t really cry. But I cried my way through the end of the movie, and then held my husband and cried hard into his shoulder for several minutes after the movie ended.
The scout ceremony KILLED ME. Everyone warned me about the opening montage…but the badge ceremony
(cont)…put me over the edge. Getting choked up thinking about it.
I think those first few minutes got to EVERYBODY! Such a sad but great way to begin the movie.
For me, it’s when he finally turns the page in Ellie’s adventure book and realizes that their life together WAS her adventure. She didn’t need more than that.
Completely agree. My mom and I looked at each other and just started crying.
Me too! Especially because he’s expecting it to be empty but its filled with her memories with him. One of the saddest things I’ve ever seen in a movie. EVER!
Yeah. Agreed. I refuse to let my Dad see this movie because he lost his wife/I lost my mom almost exactly 6 months before the film came out.
I was actually glad I hadn’t seen it at the theatre because I SOBBED during that scene.
Cried through all of “UP”…especially when Mr. Fredrickson opens the door and Dug is outside and he says “I hid under your proch because I love you.”…cried me a river and then some!
LOVE THIS PART SO MUCH. Aww, Dug.
Yep, “Up” gets me every time, at the beginning and end. Every. Time.
I made the mistake of going to see UP about a week after my grandfather passed away. I was crying so hard after ten minutes that I had to take off my 3d glasses and leave the theater.
Toy Story 2 where Jessie is remembering her owner, and how she got left in the box by the curb. It helps that Sarah McLachlan could sing the phone book and make it heartwrenching!
I remember sitting in the theatre with my kids trying not to cry during this part and failing miserably!
Absolutely…I’m tearing up just thinking about it!
Is it bad that because of that scene that I let my daughter keep all her dolls and toys (and some of mine from when I was growing up) and not give them away?
Nope. not bad at all.
Absolutely not.
Since seeing that movie, I make sure any toy I give away goes to a loving home – particularly where it concerns stuffed toys, as I’m a sucker for teddies.
“Toy Story 3″ has confirmed that that’s all right.
The first thing I thought about was that sad Sarah McLachlan song. I didn’t even picture the scene in the movie, I just started hearing that song in my head. Gets me every time.
I just leave the room when that scene comes on.
In Chicken Run where the hen realizes she didn’t produce enough eggs to keep her from the chicken pot pie machine. It’s awful.
omg, i’ve never seen this but that sounds terrible
Toy Story 2, the Sarah McLachlan song “When She Loved Me” about when Jessie’s first owner abandons her. Oh my God. It gets me every single time.
I can’t stand this one. As a child I was REALLY overly-sensitive and imaginative, and I gave “personalities” to inanimate objects all the time. I would imagine that my broken toys and old, favorite shoes with holes in them would miss me and be sad without me. Drove my parents nuts. Thanks, Pixar, for confirming my worst childhood fears!
I was the same way. I still have a lot of my dolls, and I fel guilty that I don’t take them out and play with them. I should pull an Andy in “Toy Story 3″.
Jesse’s story during “When She Loved Me” touched me so much. It honestly breaks my heart everytime I see it. For a long time, I would make my kids skip it when they watched it on DVD because just hearing the song would make me weep. Now I still cry, but I can at least listen to the song. Still can’t watch that scene, but I’m getting there.
That one gets me too!
Good grief, now I never want to see another cartoon AGAIN.
LOL Thank you for the laugh while I’m sitting here crying reading everyone’s comments!
I am actually nervous-laughing at all these comments….because if I don’t laugh, I will be a wreck for the rest of the day.
Ha…no kidding. I’m on the 2nd page of comments and I’m crying. There are 19 more pages to go!!!
I cried at some of the other moments mentioned here, but the one I remember most vividly was “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” when Aslan gets sacrificed. (I know, it’s not cheesy.) I BAWLED. My mom was all “Don’t worry, he’s not really dead,” and I was like “HOW IS HE NOT DEAD? SHE STABBED HIM WITH A KNIFE!?”
Recently, my wife and I adopted a 6 year old boy. When we had found out that we were matched, we had a big decision to make. Late one night we were going through his extensive file, while watching T.V. and American Tail was on. After looking at his report card, my wife decided to research the school he went to, and just as “Somewhere out there” began playing, there on the main screen of the school was his picture. The two of us began tearing up and thought it was a sign. He was the best decision we ever made, and that song will continually remind me of him.
Congratulations to you and your wife. What a beautiful story.
Every Christmas I cry when Frosty the Snowman melts in the greenhouse. I don’t care if he’ll be back again someday.
Me, too!
The Lion King, when Mufasa died was the first one I can remember crying at. As I’ve gotten older, I find myself getting more emotional during animated movies – For example, the end of HTTYD when Hiccup realized his foot is gone? BAWLING.
Also, first 10 mins of UP get me EVERY TIME. After that though, it’s not so emotional.
There are three scenes that will ALWAYS make me cry no matter how many times I see them – 1) The When Somebody Loved Me song from Toy Story 2, 2) When Sully walks through the door at the end of Monsters Inc, and 3) Mufasa’s death
In UP, the flashbacks of his life with his wife. He looks just like my Grandpa did, he passed away right before this movie came out.
Oh, that makes it even more sad!