As many of you likely discovered over the weekend, Pixar's new blockbuster Up is a total tearjerker. Who would have thought a funny-looking movie about a grumpy old man, talking dogs, and an inquisitive little kid could make me bawl like a baby?!

I was wondering how little kids are handling some of the sad scenes in Up, and then I remembered that animated movies have been making kids (including me) cry for years now. An obvious example is Bambi with — spoiler alert! Ha ha — the mom dying and all. Personally, I will never ever forgive forget the brutal emotional experience of watching Mufasa plummet to his death as his little baby cub looks on in The Lion King. Seriously, when it comes to this scene, I still cannot keep the tears back.
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Lion King and Tarzan.
1Pocahontas and The Lion King. Pocahontas is so unique because it doesn't have a happy ending. It's a beautiful film. The lIon King for obvious reasons. I always cry when Mufasa appears to Simba in the clouds.
2The Lion King, Bambi, Lady & the Tramp (when all of the dogs look so sad in the pound & when Trusty gets hit by the carriage)
3The late-period hand-drawn Disney 'chick flicks'. So not Hercules or Aladdin, but Mulan! I've never cried (or laughed) so hard in a theater at a film before. It was a bizarre tumult of emotion. When her dad says the flower that blossoms last is the most beautiful of all... And also, Beauty and the Beast, the end of Pocahontas and maybe one or two of the songs, and Hunchback of Notre Dame is an absolute killer. Weepy song after weepy song.
4The Lion King no doubt omg I still cry when Mufasa makes Simba believe that he was the cause of his dads death, he was so young and all alone. That is my all time favorite Disney movie along with Aladdin. Well actually I love all Disney movies.
5I recently watched Charlotte's Web, and I cried like hell...
6I forgot the name!
7The Lion King gets me everytime!!! Gosh I love that movie, it's my childhood
8**grr my second comment didnt post
- Also Tarzan! Especially the beginning, so sad .. then Phil Collins comes on.. bawling
9Lion King definitely. That was a massive breakdown. Plus I saw it for the first time with my dad and he was crying too. It was a disaster.
10Wall-E. Lilo and Stitch. The Fox and the Hound. Tarzan.
11I found that after having kids you get more emotional.
12I cried at the beginning of Finding Nemo when that big fish eats all the eggs and the mother fish.
I cry at the end of the Little Mermaid when Ariel whispers "I love you daddy" into his ear.
I know I did get chocked up with Lion King too just like many of you.
I cried in Finding Nemo too. I maybe the only one who disliked Wall-E.
13I'm such a sucker they nearly all get me. Bambi was the first I remember asking my mom how they could let his mother die and what he was going to do without a mom. The Lion King gets me and Toy Story 2 the part when they show Jesse's owner growing up and forgetting her is killer. I have to say Up! made me cry more than the others because it was gut wrenching throughout the entire movie. It was like the tear jerker olympics every time I thought ok here's a light hearted funny moment WHAM back to the oh my goodnes how sad moment. It was great movie though. Pixar came through as usual
14Hands down it's the Lion King.
15I cry at everything!! Def Finding Nemo, Lion King, and Bambi, but also Valiant, All Dogs Go To Heaven, An American Tail, Secret of Nimh (SO BAD!), The Land Before Time, and Once Upon A Forest... to name only a few of very many
16OMG Dumbo, when they chain his mother up and take her away, and she pokes her trunk thru the bars to pick up her baby, and the song "Baby of Mine"... EVERYTIME!
17Oh wow, like all of them...lemme see, Lion King, Lady and the Tramp, Lilo and Stitch, The Land Before Time, Finding Nemo, The Fox and the Hound. I'm such a Disney wimp
18I have cried watching The Lion King, Dumbo, Charlotte's Web, Bambi, Pocahontas. I may have cried during The Little Mermaid -- at the end, and I cried during Beauty and the Beast (at the end, too).
I hate crying. I love Disney movies, though. I could watch them all the time.
19The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, All Dogs Go To Heaven, American Tail, The Land Before Time (like a baby, I tell you and every time)... The list probably goes on too... I'm like a fountain.
20The most that I've cried in was Dumbo. Oh my god, when she's caressing her baby in between the bars and that song comes up, BAWL!
21I cried during Toy Story because the kid was getting too old to play with his things. I guess it's because I'm a mom...
22Dumbo for sure--i was balling during that movie. And the Lion King... I don't think I've ever cried for the other princess ones though. I didn't know Up was going to be sad!
23Up: (I've never cried in so many different points in a cartoon movie. So beautiful though). Don't want to mention much in case some people haven't seen it yet, but those of you who have know exactly what I'm talking/crying about!
Dumbo: When his mom reaches her trunk out to him after being confined, I thought I would never get over it.
24I want to think that the cry scene of the lion king is mufasa's death. I wont click the link, because i don't want to cry....
but seriously Disney...WTF is wrong with you!
25and yeah... DUMBO..disney..WTF why do you want to make us cry!!!
I remember telling my mom I didn't want to see it anymore, because Dumbo's mom was really really sad without his Dumbo, and everyone else was so bad with them... mommy cradling dumbo and the song and..my tears, my throat
26Lame...but I cried when I watched Lilo and Stitch, when they thought Stitch was dead. HAHA! And also Meet the Robinsons.
27The first few times I saw the Lion King, I was fine. But then my Dad was away on business and when Mufasa died...I was hysterical. My mother threatened to take the movie away from me, because I just could NOT stop crying.
I think I may have recently cried during Beauty and the Beast...
28Watership Down
Bambi, and I have never watched it since (that was in the 70's)
291. The Fox and the Hound. I will never ever watch that movie again.
302. Dumbo and the Baby Mine song.
Has anyone noticed that most Disney movies the main character either doesn't have a mother or their mother dies in the beginning? Cinderella, Snow White, Finding Nemo, Little Mermaid, Beauty & Beast, Bambi, the list goes on I am sure. I thought Disney would be more the happy family type- strange.
31Bambi - in fact I was so traumatized I have never watched it again. Also Dumbo, The Lion King, The Fox and the Hound, A Land Before Time, Tarzan and so many more I can't think of right now. Also The Small One. I don't know if many would remember that old cartoon but the bit where the kid sings to the donkey? I just watched it a few days ago on youtube and choked up all over again and I'm nearly 30! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHwZ_yauLk
32Man...Disney makes me bawl like a baby!!!!!
Finding Nemo - the bit when Dori tells Marty not to leave her cos he makes her feel home - still giving me goosebumps!
33The Lion King, Finding Nemo, and Fox and the Hound. The Lion King was the saddest though.
34Care0531: Supposedly they don't have moms because Walt Disney feel such grief and guilt over his own moms death (she died in the house he bought for her after Snow White took off. She died of CO poisoning because the furnace wasn't put in correctly).
35Bambi and Dumbo--Dumbo especially gets me every time.
36I cry more now as an adult watching those movies than I did as a kid. I cried through most of Up. I think it's because I understand the emotion behind it now. I have things to compare it to. As a kid I could just comprehend that it was sad, but I can't remember if I actually cried.
37Lion King
38I cried at Pocahontas and Anastasia. They're my favourite animated movies ever
39my friends never understood why i thought disney moves were kinda depressing..they always start out with a death then end on a happy note.
40I wish they would redo Little Mermaid and tell the original tale.
41Wall-E, The Lion King, Dumbo, Bambi and many others...
42Smacks83- I never knew that! That's very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
43CaterpillarGirl- they recently did another Little Mermaid (there was the original and the second one was about her daughter) its called Ariel's Beginnings. It's her younger years and they show her mother and how she was killed and she is the reason they all sing etc. My daughter had to have it but I only hear it in the car when driving I still haven't seen it.
Dumbo is so sad .. it's basically about animal abuse, right ? in the circus?
I bawled at "Meet the Robinsons"
44Fox and the Hound. I was sobbing like a baby in Up. Lilo and Stitch. Lion King, of course. And as someone already said, "Baby Mine" in Dumbo is heart-wrenching.
For non-animated movies, The Little Princess always made my sister WEEP.
45lion king and some others!!!
46Definitely the scene in Dumbo when the "Baby Mine" is playing in the background. I can't recall exactly, but I feel like I must've gotten teary-eyed for Pocahontas and/or Wall-E too.
47Like many others, I cried at Lion King, Wall-E and Up. But Up definitely takes the cake - I cried several times during the whole movie!
48I cried at the Lion King(of course), Pochantas, American Tail, Fern Gully and Princess Mononoke.
I have never cried at the Disney version of The little Mermaid but I balled like a kid when I read the orignal version. I always cry at A Little Princess too. I think when I got older and had kids the hormones soaked my system and made me more emotional.
49Er, all of them. I don't know if it's because I'm a sap (probably), or because Disney has this thing about pathos and the parent-child relationship...but watching an animated movie is like watching The Notebook.
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