What movie/book do you think portrays the dumbest message or "moral of the story"?

It was long ago so I may misremember stuff but Carebears. One episode the promised to bake cookies with grandma. Then an evil witch came along and turned the children into vegetables. Granny chased away the witch and saved the children. Then she chasticed them for missing the cookie baking. If being transformed to a veggie is not a valid excuse to miss baking with granny I don't know what is.
— skallskitar

Disney's Chicken Little (2005). The original story's moral is to get all the facts before you panic, and not to believe everything you hear. The Disney film's moral is to believe in other people even when what they say is ridiculous they have no evidence, and they have a history of making up lies/nonsense.
— thegimboid

Cars 2 ....I'm still fucking confused, even after forcibly watching it hundreds of times. Mater was embarrassing and made a scene, costing McQueen a race at one point. That low IQ lemon got what came to him, yet McQueen was in the wrong for not listening to that manic buffoon?! Sure, Pixar, sure...
— CHARLIETHECHARMANDER

Any story where the message is "It's okay to cheat on your partner as long as it's because you're pursuing LOVE" Fuck you, break up first
— WhoaMilkerson

Not exactly a book or a movie, but a story I had read when I was a kid. It was about a doctor who treats a very sick kid and the mom gives a beautiful silk purse as a thank you gift to the doctor. The doctor tells her he doesn't want the purse and wants the woman to give him his fees. The woman is hurt and removes some money from the purse she was giving him as gift. Turns out, there was a lot more money in the silk purse than what the doctor was asking for as his fees. The moral of the story was you should not be greedy but when I remembered the story when I was older, I realized it was a stupid story and the doctor was not wrong at all.
— FrostyDescent

Glass Castle had an original message that it was building towards (that it's okay to cut toxic people from your life). Then in the last twenty minutes the plot flips that into the much more palatable (marketable? acceptable?) message that you should forgive and forget because *family*.
— WR810

"What About Bob?" - a psychiatric patient follows his therapist on vacation, gloms onto the doctor's family and makes the father look like a dick for not going along with Bob's wacky hijinx. Family turns on the Dad 'cos Bob is just so great! F*ck you, Bob, stay away from my family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_About_Bob%3F
— sirenbrian

There's an old movie called Cimarron where the main character is portrayed as a "free spirit" which basically means that he'll bail on his family for years at a time to go exploring the Wild West. When he gets back, his wife is (understandably) pissed at him and the fucking bastard chews her out for it and the movie clearly wants you to take his side.
— Flashpenny

13 reasons why (the book, I haven't seen the show) - She used suicide to get revenge on people. I didn't get the impression that this girl was really depressed, she was just angry and vengeful about how people treated her, so she killed herself after sending petty tapes to everyone. I mean I guess someone can do that but it was touted as this great example of suicide awareness when that's not at all what suicidally depressed individuals look like or act like. I thought it actually sent a super horrible message because there was a powerful sense of vindication because of how she acted and how the recipients of the tapes reacted, which would give people the idea that doing what she did is a good idea to get back at their bullies. ITS NOT A GOOD IDEA.
— alishmc

Any story where the message seems to be "just keep relentlessly pursuing the girl of your dreams, and eventually she will realize that she actually loves you. Go on, she won't think you're creepy at all! Just be persistent, and she'll come around!" Where I'm from, that's called stalking.
— frachris87

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