30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community

Kids can get interested in the strangest things that adults wouldn’t even give a second thought to. And they often get obsessed with something very easily, like Disney princesses or other cartoon characters.

It’s amazing how they can watch and rewatch something they like over and over again to the point that they memorize all the lines. But sometimes they don’t even really understand what they are watching or can’t look at it critically, so when they come back to it in their adult years, people get disappointed.

This is actually more common than you would think as more than 20k people joined a thread on Reddit answering the question “What's a movie you loved as a child that you now consider to be cringeworthy?” What would you add to the list and which ones do you agree with? Let us know in the comments!

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community alvin and the chipmunks. holy s*** those guys are annoying

avalncheovrthrw , 20th Century Fox Report

Final score:

105points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Percy Jackson movies, you read the books, re watch the movies, and wonder what the hell went so wrong

Legally_Adri , Fox 2000 Pictures Report

Final score:

103points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community I was the dumba** kid that thought the last airbender was a good movie. Jesus I was dumb

PixelsTheNerd , Paramount Pictures Report

Final score:

77points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Bee Movie-

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Final score:

76points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Commando, i thought it was great as a kid and I watched it again and... it's even f*****g better!!!

Billbapierogi , 20th Century Studios Report

Final score:

75points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Any of the Steven Seagal movies from the late 80s/early 90s. Jr High school me thought he was the biggest bada** ever born. Thinking about that now that feels like the most neckbeard fandom ever.

RoamingBison , Warner Bros. Pictures Report

Final score:

72points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Shark Boy and Lava Girl. That s*** was the coolest thing I’d ever seen.

StupidWithAChance , Sony Pictures Releasing Report

Final score:

70points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Howard the Duck

makeupandchill , Universal Pictures Report

Final score:

70points

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30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community G-Force. That one Disney movie about the guinea pig spies? I thought that movie was the best as a kid.

I got through about 10 minutes of it when I tried to rewatch it a few months ago. Man, that movie is weird...

SnooHamsters9240 , Walt Disney Pictures Report

Final score:

68points

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#10

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Drop Dead Fred but it’s still on my list of favorites

DoesAGingerSnap , New Line Cinema Report

Final score:

67points

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#11

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community This really dates me but Mannequin was my favorite growing up

Algaealligator , 20th Century Fox Report

Final score:

59points

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#12

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Cat In The Hat. Now that I think about it, it technically isn't a kids movie

FredererPower , Universal Pictures Report

Final score:

59points

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#13

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Not even a kid, the 2002 movie Queen of the Damned. I was in my early 20s and thought it was so sexy and cool. I watch it now and it’s so campy and cringey and God bless Aaliyah but her performance was…eesh lol

DeadSharkEyes , Warner Bros. Pictures Report

Final score:

58points

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#14

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Indian in the Cupboard. No idea why but I liked it a lot as a kid. Watched it a few years ago with my nephew and hated it

AnonismsPlight , Paramount Pictures Report

Final score:

56points

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#15

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Blank check. The thought of being rich as a kid made me love the movie when I was younger. Watched it a couple years ago and got some real predator vibes between the kid and the lady FBI agent. Really hard to watch the ending where they kiss.

JuniorJRIV , Walt Disney Pictures Report

Final score:

55points

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#16

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. Although it is beautiful cringe.

questionerzz , Troublemaker Studios Report

Final score:

51points

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#17

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Master of Disguise. Loved it as a kid. Holy s*** is it a terrible movie

iimSgtPepper , Revolution Studios Report

Final score:

47points

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#18

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community I feel like i used to watch Garfield a lot, didnt realise it was bad until that Zombieland moment lol.

pnpspacegiraffe , 20th Century Fox Report

Final score:

45points

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#19

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Any of the first three Spy Kids movies. I remember the second one being one of my favourites and now it’s genuinely painful.

PotatoBomb69 , Dimension Films Report

Final score:

45points

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#20

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community The horrid Dungeons and Dragons movie with Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch, and one of the Wayans brothers. Absolute garbage but I loved it for some reason. I earned some late fees for not returning the VHS on time.

OIWantKenobi , New Line Cinema Report

Final score:

44points

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#21

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Any of the Mary Kate & Ashley movies.

I’d like to make it clear that I grew up with these movies, loved the Olson twins, and there is a lot of nostalgia that comes with the memories of their movies. I just don’t think as an adult now they would be as great as I thought they were 20 some years ago.

BasicWitch999 , Warner Music Vision Report

Final score:

42points

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#22

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Mario Bros.

I was ten.

DriftingPyscho , Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Report

Final score:

41points

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#23

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lundgren.

zombiepete , The Cannon Group, Inc. Report

Final score:

41points

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#24

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Catwoman (2003) haunted my childhood. I didn't realise the terrible special effects weren't real so I jumped around my living room trying to imitate her.

ImReallyTryingISwear , Warner Bros. Pictures Report

Final score:

39points

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#25

The Phantom…Billy Zane! Totally cheesy when I rewatched it but LOVED it as a kid

EmoDavey31 Report

Final score:

34points

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#26

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Batman & robin

AlexIsACarrot , Warner Bros. Report

Final score:

34points

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#27

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Idk if anyone's said it yet but Agent Cody Banks is pretty cringe. Used to love them as a kid but looking at them now its not the same as before.

javiguz27 , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Report

Final score:

34points

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#28

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Mac and Me

5 year old me used to make my parents rent it all the time. It’s now used as a joke movie for bad Sci-Fi

Byerly724 , Orion Pictures Report

Final score:

33points

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#29

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community The Covenant. It was a relatively early Sebastian Stan movie that I was obsessed with in middle school. I rewatched it a few years ago and it is easily one of the worst acted movies I've watched. Definitely the worst I've seen in a good decade. I really thought those guys were so cool. I just cringe thinking about how often I watched it and convinced myself that it was even halfway good just because there were hot guys.

Rains_of_Elir , Sony Pictures Entertainment Report

Final score:

33points

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#30

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community Critters. It was fun and cheesy though.

lady_of_the_lac , New Line Cinema Report

Final score:

30points

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#31

Swim Fan. Just watch it. I don't want to spoil it but...that movie has aged so badly.

IreallEwannasay Report

Final score:

17points

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#32

Kangaroo Jack. Loved that s***. Watched it so many times as a kid. Tried to watch it as a freshman in college and had to stop after 15 mins because the cringe levels were too high.

nanowaffle Report

Final score:

16points

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#33

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community 16 Candles

I loved that movie when I was in high school. It...has not aged well. At all.

BlackWidow1414 , Universal Pictures Report

Final score:

15points

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#34

30 Movies That People Didn’t Think Were Cringey Until They Rewatched Them As Adults, Shared In This Online Community 3 Ninjas High Noon at Mega Mountain.

Home Alone 3.

I was obsessed with both of these movies as a kid. I loved all the 3 Ninjas movies which are probably all not so great, but I remember that one the most and I’ve heard people say it’s by far the worst.

And boy did I want an RC car with a camera on it to drive at ridiculously long ranges.

dndaresilly , 20th Century Fox Report

Final score:

14points

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#35

KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park

Drink-my-koolaid Report

Final score:

14points

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#36

Mars needs moms, became my obsession and made my dad watch it atleast twice a day with me until he hid it from me when i was 9 and told me he lost it. I watched it again holy c***. EDIT: seems i offended people when it came to Mars needs Moms i like it just too corny for me personally and i hate being sad.

Professional_Meat_50 Report

Final score:

13points

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#37

The Little Vampire

beheuhwbw Report

Final score:

13points

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#38

My kids were talking about Osmosis Jones today. They were surprised at the lyrics from the song of Kid Rock. I didn’t know it was that bad when we would watch it when they were children.

rdy4xmas Report

Final score:

12points

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#39

Lava girl and Shark boy

_Amberflame_ Report

Final score:

12points

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#40

Mortal Kombat Annihilation I tried to watch it once as an adult and turned it off after 15 minutes, cause it made cringe too hard

Skaiward Report

Final score:

11points

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#41

Son of the mask, I loved the first one and got hyped when I saw there was a sequel. I was the kinda hyped where I brainwashed myself into liking it

Tea-and-crumpets- Report

Final score:

11points

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#42

Monkey Bone

I seriously thought this movie was just some weird dream I had as a child 🤣 stuck w me for yeaaars

lulu_baby210 Report

Final score:

11points

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#43

Robot Jox.

Didn't listen to it for like 15-20years. I regret rewatching it, ruined my nostalgia.

thekmind Report

Final score:

10points

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What do you think ?

Toasty 3 years ago

Robin Hood: Prince of thieves. It was my favorite. Watching today many of the performances seem wooden, however, I will die by the statement that Alan Rickman plays the greatest version of the Sheriff of Nottingham ever. That guy had the Midas touch with any role he played.

18points

John Juan 3 years ago

Alan Rickman is my favorite. -RIP

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H Edwards 3 years ago

I love Costner's performance as American Robin Hood. He barely attempted a British accent, it's hilarious. And Alan Rickman camped it up on purpose because he realised it would be ridiculous if he had played it straight.

2points

Lara Verne 3 years ago

I still love that movie.

Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago

I had, still have, a weird obsession with Ferngully... Man, it's got a good message but it's a pretty cringy movie. To be fair, I want to be an animator & it showcases different methods of animation so I can just say I'm watching it for studying purposes... but in reality I just love Ferngully.

Momma Jess 3 years ago

Yo, the name is Batty, the logic is erratic, potatoes in a jacket, toys in the attic!

8points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

I'm going to argue that the casting of both Robin Williams and Tim Curry makes Ferngully a classic, however cringey some parts might be. Tim's campy "Toxic Love" was brilliant.

4points

-Loki's_favorite_kid- 3 years ago

Ferngully is my childhood.

Jessica Nametz 3 years ago

I freaking love Fern Gully! A classic and I will forever love Robin Williams as batty <3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3points

Paradise 3 years ago (edited)

I missed seeing Ferngully if it is in the list but I loved this movie back when it came out. My 9th grade English teacher had us see this for some reason, made my heart happy then, as I liked the movie a lot.

1point

Konnor Polasek 3 years ago

I LOVED fern and gully but we didnt have the vhs tape but my moms best friend did so i would call her on our home phone to go to her house and watch it

0points

Fred L. 3 years ago

Apparently there is a sequel. Haven´t seen that though.

Chillace 3 years ago

im ashamed too admit that i liked the eragon movie(before i read it), the master of disguise, and spy kids

6points

Katchen 3 years ago

Don’t be ashamed: no one should yuck your yum.

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