It was supposed to be funny, but instead it ended up being disturbing.
1. Torturing a decent couple (Home Sweet Home Alone) – In this remake, the kid tries to defend his home from intruders, like in the usual Home Alone films. However, unlike the original movie, where the intruders are actual criminals trying to rob the house and attempted to harm a child several times, here they are a sympathetic, desperate couple trying to retrieve their stolen property so they can afford to keep their house. They are basically decent people, so watching them being tortured (and some of the methods are quite extreme) is far more painful and not funny even in the slightest. It also doesn’t help that the kid in this movie is a massive brat, and some of the reactions from the couple feel more realistic.
2. Foxy getting lobotomized (Chicken Little) – This is one of the most infamous cases of this and the karmic overkill trope. During an alien attack on Earth, she gets kidnapped and lobotomized by them, and her entire personality is rewritten from a nasty tomboy into a giggling girly girl. When the aliens are appeased and prepare to depart Earth, they offer to change her mind back, but one of Chicken’s friends, Runt, refuses, saying they like her better this way, and then he begins dating her. This is all treated lightheartedly as comeuppance for her bullying, but in reality, it is quite horrifying.
