Nice Films for kids with no baddies please?

[dannyboyle]

7 and 5 year olds. I’m looking for nice happy films for them to watch with no baddies or bad things happening.
Have tried a few but they tend to get scared.
Any suggestions please??

How about Kiki's Delivery Service? Nothing very scary in that and it's a great film too

Disney's RocketMan(1997) has been one of our favourites for years, it's funny and even educational.

Thanks both. Haven’t heard of either film so will give them a go!

My Neighbour Totoro. Best. Film. Ever!
Ponyo (both Studio Gibhli as is Kiki mention by a pp)

I loved Matilda as a kid!
Also Fartypants if you can get hold of it. Mr Bean's holiday.
Casper the friendly ghost maybe?

Pollyanna.
Swiss Family Robinson (got some pirates though but not scary).
The Parent Trap.

Babe! I love that film.

Babe was great!!
Would beethoven the dog be ok. Haven't watched it in a long time. I forget if there's anyone bad in it.

There's always a baddie though isn't there? The home alone ones are fine for little children (if you can bear them!).

Don't watch The Bear though 😭

Strange Magic is a favourite here. I love the soundtrack.

Greatest showman?

Beethoven has terrifying baddies who steal the dogs to kill them. Not great.

Why no baddies at all? Not even mild ones or comic ones like in Despicable Me?

Silver haired cat, sorry, I haven't watch that film in ages. 😂

The Secret Life of Pets or Sing. You’re always going to be hard pushed to avoid minor peril though.

@Tinkhasflown we love Strange Magic in our house and never hear of anybody else talking about it! I’m often coerced into acting out Roland whilst DD is Marianne for the Marianne/Stronger number

No problem, I only saw it a few weeks ago! Bloody heart breaking.

I think most films have a slightly sad or mildly scary element to them as part of the script - it's the "journey" they want to take you on. Even if the baddies are caricatures apart from the Child Catcher who was fucked up they will be a bit scary.

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh (2011 one in particular, with Zooey Deschanel’s lovely singing) is very sweet and gentle. There is a ‘monster’ who we never see, does things like put holes in socks and it transpires his existence was all a misunderstanding arising from a spelling mistake!

The animated Peanuts movie from 2015 is also very gentle, just the usual antics of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. In fact, all the Peanuts cartoons (we have some from the 1980s) don’t really have a baddie!

Seconds to My Neighbour Totoro and Ponyo, some of the Studi Ghibli films are a little darker though.

I do sympathise, we recently had to leave the cinema halfway through the Incredibles Two as two out of my three were terrified!

I would say some of the suggestions have baddies- Trunchball in Matilda anyone 😳 And the robbers in Home Alone are scary too! And the dads at the beginning of the greatest showman?? To be honest there is peril in most films... but Sing and Secret Life of pets is a really good call. There’s not really a baddy in Inside Out or Wreck it Ralph but there is peril. We’re currently watching Nativity - the other choir master is silly rather than bad.

What about other ‘journey’ films where the storyline is the peril of the journey rather than a ‘baddy’? Just thinking maybe Ice Age?

You may already know this op, but Common Sense Media has plot synopses and lots of people’s assessments of films. Really useful.

The Secret Garden maybe? Mary Poppins? Not sure if too old for the younger one though.

Or Flipper?

My neighbour Totoro, my kids love that movie.
Winnie the Pooh
Summer with a fox
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Mary Poppins
The incredible journey (1963)

Or perhaps Alice in Wonderland the original one (1951).

Oh and Thumbelina. 🌻

@MamaLovesMango I'm surprised Strange Magic isn't more popular too. It has recently been removed from the Netflix line up and my lot are very upset about this.

Nearly time for the Nativity films! Classics.