r/moviecritic • u/TapAdmirable5666 • 1d ago

Mrs. Doubtfire is a weird movie

So I got to choose a movie to watch with the kids (9, 13 and 15) and decided to show them a childhood classic. Mrs. Doubtfire.

That movie was a hell of a lot weirder then I remember.

I remember Pierce Brosnan being the bad guy but honestly the guy didn’t do anything wrong and is mostly the victim of Robin Williams.

And the part in the restaurant with Robin Williams telling him he has to compete with a vibrator which pounds like a jackhammer. WHAT KIND OF KIDS MOVIE IS THIS!? 😂

I mean the kids liked the movie so mission accomplished but damn the 90’s were something else.

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u/jburger921 1d ago

I always thought it was weird when the older sister dug her heels in and wouldn't do chores until after they had watched the Dick Van Dyke show.

This movie came out in 1993/1994 and the Dick Van Dyke show is from the mid-1960s. I always thought it was a weird reference for 90s kids to say we aren't doing shit until we've had our fill of Dick Van Dyke.

Just an odd creative choice.

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u/RealCleverUsernameV2 1d ago

Honestly, I was her age at the time and loved watching Dick Van Dyke. It was on TV daily then. It was probably also a routine the family had and she was struggling with change (and probably puberty).

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u/camergen 5h ago

It was moreso just a power struggle and not really about watching the show itself. Pierce Brosnan refers to her later to his friend, in a positive sense, but just that he’s a handfulZ

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u/MizStazya 15h ago

In the 90s, Nickelodeon cut off kid shoes at 7pm and swapped to Nick at Night, which was mostly old shows from the 60s and 70s. I got hooked on a lot of old shows that way - I Love Lucy, I Dream of Genie, Bewitched. I never was a fan of DVD, but it was definitely available to us.

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u/Thatguy755 7h ago

I remember watching Nick at Night, but I don’t remember getting my shoes cut off. That sounds scary.

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u/MizStazya 6h ago

Now I'm leaving it

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u/Optimal_Pineapple646 1d ago

I’m 35 and the Dick Van Dike show is one of my all time favorite comfort watches, it’s timeless