Disney Movies About Bullying

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The following Disney movies about bullying have a down-and-out character trying to overcome great odds in order to fit in. Along the way are many obstacles, both tangible and intangible. You can watch these movies in the literal sense and enjoy them simply as movies or you can actually help someone with similar odds to beat by seeing if they can relate.

Chicken Little

He’s tiny, he’s smart, and he’s afraid of a little debris falling on his head. Worse than that, he’s the target of school bullies. Chicken Little and his motley crew of friends get made fun of, picked on, and ridiculed all because they are different. They're also teased because Chicken Little thinks the sky is going to fall, of course. This doesn’t help his case any and the whole town is lambasting him, which embarrasses his father.

Chicken Little is your basic movie about trying to fit in, but no matter what he does the situation gets worse. Being a Disney movie, the actual situations are more humorous than lesson learning.

Sky High

Sky High is a high school for superheros and sidekicks. The Commander's son has officially started school, but has one problem: he has no superpowers. Because of that, he gets thrown into the crowd of sidekicks, or "Hero Support." Being the Commander’s son does not have its benefits. Warren Peace, the son of the man the Commander put in jail, is his arch-enemy; two Sky High bullies pick on him and his friends; and a over zealous gym teacher (played by Bruce Campbell) treats them all like dirt.

The main theme of Sky High is that you have to rise up to the challenge as you face many obstacles. Sounds like a Zen thing to think, or even a warrior’s creed, but when he gets his superpowers, he uses them to do just that.

Ice Princess

Being smart does have disadvantages, especially if all you do is put your nose to the book all the time and are focused on figuring out what you are going to do ten years in the future. When a special project for a college entry interview surfaces, she is forced to use her book smarts and develop social skills in order to overcome the demeaning insults of those who think they are better then her.

She is different, and being different is a common theme in Disney movies about bullying. She learns how to treat friends, have fun, and to live for the moment.

Max Keeble’s Big Move

Like a live action Chicken Little, Max Keeble’s Big Move contains Max Keeble, a little kid with a big, sarcastic heart. In order to stay even slightly competitive with the bullies who razz him, he uses his brains to outsmart them. When Max’s parents tell him they are moving, he decides to get back at all those bullies. Unfortunately, all his successful plans go awry when his parents tell him they aren’t moving after all, and he must prove himself once again by standing up at those same bullies.

Heavy Weights

A fat camp is the backdrop to Heavy Weights. For years, Camp Hope has catered to the overweight kid with hopes of weight loss and good nutrition. In reality, the camp is like Club Med: a relaxing retreat. When an aggressive entrepreneur (Ben Stiller) buys the camp in order to film a weight loss infomercial using the kids as guinea pigs, they are deceived, lied to, and bullied into doing what the businessman needs.

The kids have to team up and figure out how to expose the evil man before he completes what he wants to do. The heavyweights plan jokes and scheme an elaborate plan to let everybody know what the deal is. In true Disney fashion, Heavy Weights follows a tried-and-true formula of “getting bullied, planning an assault, and getting even.”