Great 'family films'...

[rhod]

Have you ever tried them on some Laurel & Hardy? Doesn't seem to be shown on TV anymore (which is a disgrace) but I think the quality of the performances should keep most kids entertained.

Something like the Music Box (piano delivery) or Another Fine Mess (saw mill) would probably be a good place to start.

 

[_angel_]

Wallace and Gromit
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future

 

[Melinda]

flight of the navigator

Loved this! I used to watch it back to back with D.A.R.Y.L. which is about an 11/12 yr old boy found wandering, with no memory of who he is. He gets fostered and proceeds to display wondrous abilities!

The USAirforce are the baddies and are very bad! Daryl drives a car and flies a jet!

 

[Saffy]

A night at the museum had my kids chuckling.

 

[Badgers]

I love the safe Sunday film choices....

 

[Reno]

Time Bandits
Babe
The Crimson Pirate
The Iron Giant
20.000 Leagues Under the Sea
Superman
Zathura
The Witches
Dumbo
Jason and the Argonauts
Jurassic Park
ET
The Wizard of Oz
Return to Oz
Help!
Stardust
Flash Gordon
The Incredibles
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Addams Family Values
A Little Princess (90's version)
Spirited Away
The Black Stallion
The Time Machine (60's version)
Fly Away Home
The Red Balloon
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

 

[django]

Jabberwocky

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

flight of the navigator

damn

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Loved this! I used to watch it back to back with D.A.R.Y.L. which is about an 11/12 yr old boy found wandering, with no memory of who he is. He gets fostered and proceeds to display wondrous abilities!

The USAirforce are the baddies and are very bad! Daryl drives a car and flies a jet!

D.A.R.Y.L. was on the other day

 

[Melinda]

D.A.R.Y.L. was on the other day

Oh I am sad I missed it! Its so excitng! I remember wishing I was a robot too.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Our favourites are:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Night at the museum
Narnia (shiftyjunior thought it was scary)
Toy Story
Incredibles (great great film)
The Iron Giant
ET
Wallace and Gromit films
The Grinch (not just for christmas)
Labyrinth (scary for kids, not sure when to let shiftyjunior watch it actually)
fungus the bogeyman (supose its not actually a film but still....)
teh lion king
aladdin
the gruffalo (i love this one)
I agree with The WItches but its way scary for my boy, maybe whne he is 12 he'll be ready
the BFG

 

[DotCommunist]

Our favourites are:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Night at the museum
Narnia (shiftyjunior thought it was scary)
Toy Story
Incredibles (great great film)
The Iron Giant
ET
Wallace and Gromit films
The Grinch (not just for christmas)
Labyrinth (scary for kids, not sure when to let shiftyjunior watch it actually)
fungus the bogeyman (supose its not actually a film but still....)
teh lion king
aladdin
the gruffalo (i love this one)
I agree with The WItches but its way scary for my boy, maybe whne he is 12 he'll be ready
the BFG

thats a tear-jerker IMO

 

[Reno]

thats a tear-jerker IMO

It is and there is nothing wrong with it if done right. Many family films are tear-jerkers btw.

 

[DotCommunist]

It is and there is nothing wrong with it if done right. Many family films are tear-jerkers btw.

It's one I posted on the 'Films that make men get a bit of grit in their eye' thread innit.

 

[Melinda]

Railway Children

Swallows and Amazons- I loved this!

 

[DotCommunist]

Railway Children

Swallows and Amazons- I loved this!

Jenny Agguter FTW

 

[Orang Utan]

Visitor Q - a touching affirmation of family values

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Visitor Q - a touching affirmation of family values

*splatters screen with tea*

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

thats a tear-jerker IMO

yes yes it is, its a beautiful classic story, a great conversation piece with kids too, its funny to hear their interpetations of films

 

[Jambooboo]

Sammy's Super T-Shirt
The Love Bug

 

[dodgepot]

Sammy's Super T-Shirt

cool, someone else who remembers it

 

[madamv]

Good Boy
Homeward Bound
Greyfriars Bobby
Babe 1 & 2
Charlottes Web
Arthur and the Invisibles
James and the Giant Peach
Mr Bean films
Mary Poppins

The others are mainly animated in our collection. But can totally recommend any and all the above

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It's bizarre how on this forum on the one hand we've got people proposing showing horror films to kids, and on the other we've got people saying that the film of a children's book (The Witches) is too scary...

Mind you, The Witches (both film and moreover book) DID absolutely terrify me when I was young.

 

[The Groke]

Return to Oz

But Return to Oz is terrifying!

 

[DotCommunist]

*Has nightmares about wheelers*

 

[Sunray]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned

The sound of music. Everyone knows the words, if they don't you can rewind and teach them.

 

[Reno]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned

The sound of music. Everyone knows the words, if they don't you can rewind and teach them.

*Has nightmares about nuns*

 

[Badgers]

*kittyp posting*

Labyrinth
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Corpse Bride

I know people have mentioned The Return To Oz, which, yes, is both brilliant and scary at the same time, but what about the origional Wizard of Oz?

I use to watch it nearly every Saturday for years as a kid and it never did me any harm..................

 

[Reno]

I know people have mentioned The Return To Oz, which, yes, is both brilliant and scary at the same time, but what about the origional Wizard of Oz?

I use to watch it nearly every Saturday for years as a kid and it never did me any harm..................

I mentioned it just above Return to Oz.

As a kid I had a pop up book of The Wizard of Oz and was over the moon to see that there was a film of it when I came across it on the telly. Then my mum switched it off because she found the singing midgets disturbing and I had to wait till it was on again to watch it at my grandmothers.

 

[DotCommunist]

*kittyp posting*

Labyrinth
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Corpse Bride

I know people have mentioned The Return To Oz, which, yes, is both brilliant and scary at the same time, but what about the origional Wizard of Oz?

I use to watch it nearly every Saturday for years as a kid and it never did me any harm..................

LOL 'I move the stars for no one'

Falibowie is fail