Remember waking up as a kid on a Saturday morning, running into the living room, and switching on your favorite cartoon? Of course you do! For many of us, those early morning hours were sacred with a whole roster of radical animated adventures for us to escape into.
The children’s cartoons craze was such a massive market that companies often took to strange source material in an attempt to make the next big thing. We’d loved to have been in the room when producers were pitching a wholesome kids cartoon based on Paul Verhoeven’s uber-violent satire of militarized police, or watched the person who pitched a toy line for an animated series based entirely on the story of a traumatized Vietnam veteran. Sadly, we don’t have a time machine. But we’ve looked back and picked some of the most surprising animated adaptations of popular (and often very adult) movies for you to enjoy…
Source: IGN.com 11 Movies That Became Unlikely Kids Cartoons