Why would kids movies make me nervous? Good question. You see a few years ago I was at my grandparents house and noticed they had a VHS copy of Casper. Of course I decided to watch it.
Casper was definitely in my top ten favorite movies growing up. There are many reasons why including ; how awesome that house was, that scene where the uncles are eating but the food just falls through them, but more than anything, how hot alive Casper was at the end of the movie.
I mean seriously as a child I would wish on every shooting star that a ghost as friendly and cute as Casper would be my BFF. (Never happened). Seriously he says "Can I keep you?" Ten year old me swooned.
I literally watched our copy of the tape until it wore out. So the last time I had watched the movie , I was probably 11.
Now let's fast forward to 20 year old me watching it at my grandparents house.
First of all, the movie was wayyyyyyy more depressing than I recalled. Child Heather didn't really pontificate on the fact that he was the ghost of a kid. Heavy stuff. But the most shockingly different part of the movie was Casper aka Devon Sawa shows up at the Halloween party.
I was super excited. This was always my favorite part of the movie! Time for hot hot Casper!
What I didn't think about was that he was hot hot Casper when I was 10. And although I had aged appropriately, the actors on the PREVIOUSLY RECORDED FILM had not changed.
So there I was 20 years old looking at 12 year old Devon feeling let down, shocked and confused. It was a childhood memory killer. (I looked it up, I know that Sawa was actually 17, but his character was 12 and seriously he did not look 17!)
Ever since then I have been apprehensive about watching my other childhood faves. Am I know too old for Benny "the Jet" Rodriguez? Rufio? Mimi-Siku? Would all of those fond memories be ruined too?
Probably shouldn't chance it.
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