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Top Ten Kids Films

The Karate ​Kid​
The Karate ​Kid​

The Karate Kid is an American martial arts drama multi-media franchise, created by screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. The franchise began in 1984 with The Karate Kid, and was followed by three film sequels: The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and The Next Karate Kid (1994).

Toy Story 2​
Toy Story 2​

The Toy Story series consists of three CGI animated films: Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999), and Toy Story 3 (2010). A fourth film, Toy Story 4, is in production and set for release on June 21, 2019.

Finding Nemo​
Finding Nemo​

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the film stars the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, and Willem Dafoe.

E.T. the Extra-​Terrestrial​
E.T. the Extra-​Terrestrial​

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison. It features special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Pat Welsh.

The Lion King​
The Lion King​

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film, and the fifth animated film produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance.

Shrek​
Shrek​

outburst by Shrek. For me, that's too much. Kids are sponges...and anything that comes across as funny gets picked up even quicker. As great as Shrek is as a movie, the overt swearing should have been toned down. In my opinion, it's the only thing that keeps Shrek from being a great movie for kids. I'm honestly surprised it came away with a PG rating.

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Frozen​
Frozen​

Wintry Disney musical is fabulous celebration of sisterhood. Read Common Sense Media's Frozen review, age rating, and parents guide.

Mary Poppins​
Mary Poppins​

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, loosely based on P. L. Travers's book series Mary Poppins.

Home Alone​
Home Alone​

Home Alone is an action game based on the first film and released in Europe only. The game was published by Blast! Entertainment Limited and released for the PlayStation 2 on December 1, 2006.

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The Wizard of ​Oz​
The Wizard of ​Oz​

Read Common Sense Media's The Wizard of Oz review, age rating, and parents guide. Even decades later, one of the best family films ever made. Read Common Sense Media's The Wizard of Oz review, age rating, and parents guide.

The ​Incredibles​
The ​Incredibles​

Meet the characters from Disney's The Incredibles. Login ... Jack-Jack is the youngest child in the Parr family. ... Recommended Movies.

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The Princess ​Bride​
The Princess ​Bride​

Simply put, The Princess Bride is stuffed full of every thrilling element of a classic romantic adventure -- princes, villains and evil geniuses, giants and giant creatures, sword fights, revenge, kidnapping, and a rescue on white horses -- and it coats them all in delicious humor.

The Goonies​
The Goonies​

The Goonies II was released in North America, Europe and Australia, although the original was one of the NES games released as part of the Nintendo VS. System arcade machine in the 1980s. The Goonies II has little to do with the film.

Minions​
Minions​

MINIONS is a prequel to the wildly popular Despicable Me movies, chronicling how the little yellow creatures have always been drawn to follow the biggest villains surrounding them, from a T-rex to a caveman to a tyrant.

Aladdin​
Aladdin​

Aladdin was the most successful film of 1992 grossing $217 million in the United States and over $504 million worldwide. It was the biggest gross for an animated film until The Lion King two years later, and was the first full-length animated film to gross $200 million in North America.

Beauty and ​the Beast​
Beauty and ​the Beast​

More About 'Beauty and the Beast' ... Star Wars Story share what they love about their characters and describe what it feels to be part of the larger Star Wars family.

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Willy Wonka & ​the Chocolate Factory​
Willy Wonka & ​the Chocolate Factory​

Willy Wonka is a fictional character in Roald Dahl's 1964 children or teens novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the film adaptations of these books that followed.

The Little ​Mermaid​
The Little ​Mermaid​

The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on the Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid tells the story of a Ariel, a mermaid princess who dreams of becoming human.

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Monsters, Inc
Monsters, Inc

The monsters in MONSTERS, INC. are more afraid of kids than kids are of monsters. But monsters need to collect kids' screams to fuel their world, and children are getting so hard to scare that the monsters' world is suffering from rolling blackouts.

Babe​
Babe​

Bébé's Kids was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Animated Feature at the 20th Annie Awards, losing to Beauty and the Beast. Home media. Bébé's Kids was released on DVD on October 5, 2004. The original theatrical and home video release were preceded by the short, Itsy Bitsy Spider.

The Lego ​Movie​
The Lego ​Movie​

In the same year, the "Piece of Resistance" film would be renamed "The Lego Movie" by Warner Bros. and it was released in February 2014. The Lego Movie received wide acclaim from Lego fans and critics for its characters, plot, special effects and humor.

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Inside Out​
Inside Out​

The American Film Institute selected Inside Out as one of the Top Ten Films of the Year. The film received the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. It received three Critics' Choice Movie Award nominations including the win for Best Animated Feature.

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Matilda​
Matilda​

The movie is relatable for kids going through their own growing pains, but the fantasy-based nature of the way Matilda copes with her problems doesn't offer many realistic solutions for young viewers.

How to Train ​Your Dragon​
How to Train ​Your Dragon​

Parents need to know that How to Train Your Dragon is an excellent adventure comedy about a clever young Viking that includes some fantasy violence and potentially frightening images of dragons which could scare some young movie-goers. The dragons attack the Viking village, causing mass destruction, and in a couple of cases, they cripple ...

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Snow White ​and the Seven Dwarfs​
Snow White ​and the Seven Dwarfs​

The profits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Walt to build Disney Studios in Burbank.

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Moana​
Moana​

Moana is a wonderful role model and a strong female character. Unlike many movie princesses, her focus isn't on winning a prince -- instead, she's set on being a strong, successful leader for her people. She doesn't shy away from her responsibilities, but she also fearlessly follows her heart.

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The ​Nightmare Before Christmas​
The ​Nightmare Before Christmas​

The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton.

Zootopia​
Zootopia​

Disney’s newest animated feature Zootopia, out Friday, is good! The concept—it’s about a city of anthropomorphic animals in which predators and prey peacefully coexist—is creative. The animation is vibrantly beautiful.

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Harry Potter ​and the Philosopher's Stone​
Harry Potter ​and the Philosopher's Stone​

First Potter movie is a magical ride but also intense. Read Common Sense Media's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone review, age rating, and parents guide.

WALL-E​
WALL-E​

WALL-E has 29 reviews and 45 ratings. Reviewer soup22 wrote: This movie is the perfect example of a classic storytelling skill: Show don't tell. There is hardly any dialogue in the movie, near the beginning anyway, but it is clear what is going on.

The Sound of ​Music​
The Sound of ​Music​

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Spirited Away​
Spirited Away​

Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award ®-winning masterpiece Spirited Away was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan and a film that helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers.

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Toy Story 3​
Toy Story 3​

Children and adults flocked to theaters when Toy Story opened, making it the highest-selling film for three weeks in a row. As the first full-length, 3D computer-animated movie, it was a milestone for animation, possibly the most significant since the introduction of color.

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Finding Dory​
Finding Dory​

Parents need to know that Finding Dory is the sequel to Pixar's 2003 classic Finding Nemo. This time, instead of a parent searching for a child, the story revolves around Dory looking for her family.

Tangled​
Tangled​

Movies. In Theaters; At Home ... but he has a large heart and together with Flynn helps to reunite Rapunzel with her family. ... Look through some of your favorite ...

The Sandlot​
The Sandlot​

The Sandlot is a 1993 American coming-of-age baseball film co-written, directed and narrated by David Mickey Evans, which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary and James Earl Jones. The filming locations were in Glendale, Midvale, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah. It grossed $33 million worldwide and has become a cult film.

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Coraline​
Coraline​

The 3-D effects (Coraline is Hollywood's first 3-D stop-motion film) are cool without being overwhelming, and the story is a two-pronged cautionary tale -- for parents and kids not to take each other for granted, and for people not to dwell on whether the grass is greener, because it could all be a huge, horrifying charade.

The Muppet ​Movie​
The Muppet ​Movie​

After The Muppet Movie, the second and third films were The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan, which followed in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Altogether, the three films received four Academy Award nominations.

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The Iron Giant​
The Iron Giant​

Parents need to know that The Iron Giant has plenty of the kind of cartoon action that most kids love: a giant robot under attack; buildings, trains, and cars crashing; futuristic weapons firing; Hogarth, the boy hero, creeping through a dark forest looking for "trouble"; a boat caught in a storm; spooky music; and an arrogant, mean-spirited villain who threatens everyone and everything that's important.

The ​Neverending Story​
The ​Neverending Story​

The film has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 82% based on reviews from 38 critics. The critical consensus reads: "A magical journey about the power of a young boy's imagination to save a dying fantasy land, The NeverEnding Story remains a much-loved kids' adventure." Metacritic gives the film a score of 46/100 based on reviews from 10 critics.

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Ratatouille​
Ratatouille​

But Ratatouille, like director Brad Bird's family adventure The Incredibles, is the rare animated film that could just as easily captivate an audience full of childless adults. Granted, the world of haute French cuisine is an unlikely setting for a kid-friendly flick, but Bird makes it irresistible.

Enchanted​
Enchanted​

Parents need to know that Enchanted is a mostly live-action Disney fairy tale that will appeal to kids -- even very young ones. Like most Disney flicks, the romance is chaste (a few kisses), the violence is mild (though the climactic battle with a dragon at the end could scare some sensitive little ones), and the language isn't an issue.

Hook​
Hook​

Hook is a 1991 American fantasy comedy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Smee, Maggie Smith as Wendy, Caroline Goodall as Moira Banning, and Charlie Korsmo as Jack Banning.

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Cars​
Cars​

Some kids seem born with a fascination with anything that has a motor, a couple of axles, and a steering wheel. If your kids are into cars, these need-for-speed flicks are sure to entertain them -- whether they're still playing with Hot Wheels or ready for a learner's permit.

Elf​
Elf​

Although the movie is 100% on board with the magic of Christmas, some characters shake their head and roll their eyes at the notion of Santa, and kids talk about the possibility of parents being the ones behind the presents.

My Neighbor ​Totoro​
My Neighbor ​Totoro​

My Neighbor Totoro ranked 41st in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010, and Totoro was ranked 18th on Empire's 50 Best Animated Film Characters list. A list of the greatest animated films compiled by Terry Gilliam in Time Out ranked the film number 1.

Labyrinth​
Labyrinth​

Sarah immediately regrets her wish, but Jareth says she can regain Toby only by finding his castle, perched in the center of an immense labyrinth. While exploring the labyrinth, Sarah meets an assortment of puzzles, perils, and semi-comical creatures.

Jumanji​
Jumanji​

Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston. It is an adaptation of the 1981 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The film was written by Van Allsburg, Greg Taylor, Jonathan Hensleigh, and Jim Strain and stars Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Jonathan Hyde, Bebe Neuwirth, and David Alan Grier.

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Chicken Run​
Chicken Run​

CHICKEN RUN has arrived, to the joy and relief of the many fans of Nick Park's Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit short films. In his studio's first feature-length movie, a brave chicken plots an escape from a small Yorkshire chicken farm.