[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

I don't know where this idea that dark = mature came from, but it's really annoying more often than not.

I'll take a risk and even say that it's more often the other way around. That is, all comedies have sad moments, but in those intended for an adult audience it's most often a quarrel between characters, and in children's movies - the death of parents. Seriously, at one time in children's films the mothers died so often that we had a family joke, that Americans probably consider parent`s death us something funny.
If we try to find the right approach, then A.P. Chekhov said: "There is no need to write books specifically for children. Children need to be given those works of adults that they can understand." In my opinion, this is too radical and not entirely correct, but he noted something correctly. Children's means simpler and more understandable, because they have less life experience. But dark/light, happy/sad, scary/fearless are already of secondary importance and depend on the story itself and its purpose.