When my son first starting getting out of kids movies, he liked Indiana Jones and back to the future a lot. Ghostbusters went over well.
Also, Phineas and Ferb is great for every age. Old Simpsons are good too!
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How old are your kids?
Police Academy
The Mask of Zorro (1998, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones)
The Tenth Kingdom
Police Academy: sex and voyeur jokes
Mask of Zorro: suicide of brother, head in jar:
Don't know. Depends on age of kids.
Young kids: The Iron Giant, Princess Bride, and if shows count, Adventure Time and Avatar
Teenagers: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
The Truman Show
Maybe not.
If I watched that as a kid, I'd be doubting if my parents were just actors.
I saw it as a kid, it didn’t scar me for life by any means but it was pretty creepy.
The Martian was excellent.
The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was a hell of a lot of fun.
I'm guessing that's (cartoons or movies) (made for kids), not (cartoons) or (movies made for kids) - so the Spiderverse moves were also excellent.
is everybody making suggestions in here a millennial? or is there really no examples of family-friendly films from the last 10-20 years?
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Doctor Who!
My son love Rocky horror picture show. We skip the big sex scene in the middle.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy had me in stitches as a kid.
Interstellar is pg 13. It's kind of a heavy movie but younger kids won't pick up on it.
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Not knowing their age, I still go with anything PG13 or your local equivalent is likely to be fine for most kids depending on what they like and how they react to different situations. My kiddo liked Jurrasic World at 10, but couldn't handle Jurrasic Park because JP did a better job at making scary scenes scary.
I enjoyed a lot of Rated R movies as a kid, especially when the rating was from language. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles wasn't any more adult than Uncle Buck except for the F bomb laden rental scene. Both are completely appropriate for kids around 10 years old with parental guidance if needed.
We never hid cursing from our kiddo and she didn't repeat it elsewhere, so it really came down to what held her attention and what seemed like something we felt might need some explaining.
The Aventures of Baron Von Munchausen is fine for kids.
Yes there's some tasteful nudity, but if I'm being real it's less than any of us are comfortable with in the home.
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Depending on the age, but if they are still not truly able to follow complex storylines and conversations, you could really get away with anything that isn't scary, sexual or violent.
My parents watched Friends all the time, I didn't understand half of it but it was fun to watch as kid.
My kids like horror movies since they were little.