Friday, September 18, 2009

Disney's "The Incredible Journey": A Study in Animal Abuse

I know I'm supposed to be on hiatus, but...

I'm watching the original version of Disney's "The Incredible Journey", a movie I last saw on what must have been a 16mm print in elementary school.

This is one seriously screwed up movie. I mean, its a cute kids' movie as far as stories go.

But I turned it on partway through, and have seen the following:

1) This movie seems to take place in multiple simultaneous time periods, from the 1880's to the 1960's. And maybe both in the UK and the US. That's a tough journey for any animal.
2) They threw a real live cat into a raging river to get shots of a cat paddling furiously in a raging river.
3) And then threw a retriever in right after the cat, but he got to smash up against rocks
4) Then they released a real, live Lynx after the poor cat. Neither the cat nor the Lynx were screwing around at all. I sort of wondered how many cats they went through to get that shot.
5) They may have also stuck real porcupine quills in the lab's face.

Am beginning to appreciate PETA's role in Hollywood.

5 comments:

J.S. said...

In their defense, they would have treated any young actors the same way.

The League said...

Huh. Agreed! And its unlikely that the young actors would be anymore aware fo what was happening than the cat.

Gerry White said...

Just watched it. Incredibles the word, thank god that wouldn't be allowed today...

chess foodie belle said...

What crack are you smoking? No, they would not have killed human kids to make the movie.

chess foodie belle said...

A human wouldn't be killed, but we suspect the cat was killed for the movie. Prove me wrong. I would like to be less pissed off than I am right now after watching it. Truly horrifying. You let me know the next time they kill kids to make a movie. Your comment makes no sense.