children's films over the years. your all-time favourites?

[hatwoman]

for me Bugsy Malone
for dds Toy Story

I'm quite fond of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which was on again this Christmas.

DSs love Toy Story 1 & 2, Stuart Little, loads of cartoons like Robin Hood, Sword in the Stone and also Wallace and Grommit. They go in phases though and have favourites for a few weeks before moving on to something else.

all time favourite?
that is hard

Finding Nemo is one of them.
Babe another
Matilda

Jungle Book

can't thnk of any more

Finding Nemo - never tire of it, love it

Love Bugsy Malone
Love Mary Poppins (as I live and breathe!)

Railway Children. Best ever.

Then Oliver. Bugsy Malone. Jungle Book.

The Goonies! Still love it now

Fly Away Home. That's about the only children's film I would actually choose to sit right the way through again, for my own pleasure.

I second Mary poppins. DD watched for 1st time yesterday - she was transfixed! Brilliant. Love Oliver too and Chitty Chitty bang bang.

choosyfloosy - would Fly Away Home be ok for 5-year olds? I looked at the Empire Review and it looks great (I hadn't heard of it) - but maybe for slightly older kids?

Spirited Away is fab too! Love Bugsy Malone and Indiana Jones (appart from temple of doom which is a bit shit)

hmm - not sure about 5 year olds. the main character's mother dies right at the start, although it is very gently done i think that's a lot for a 5-yearold to take on board. just possibly they might not understand it, but i think they probably would. Also it is VERY long tbh, maybe your 5 year old has a mega attention span, unlike my 4 year old!

a thoughtful 6year old would be more like it i would have thought, up to adult i would think.

bugsy malone was by far my favourite..also quite liked the worst witch.

DS loves toy story and finding nemo

watch it for yourself though - i sobbed like a baby at the end

definitely The Railway Children - I always cry when she sees her Dad at the end

Matilda.

it does sound good - I'll certainly get it out at some stage. tomorrow I have about 6 kids coming round (aged 5-9) for a "cinema party". we got a projector recently and dds asked if they could invite some friends round to watch a dvd. so, in a kind-hearted-I'm-a-good-mum-me moment I said ok.

I'm now beginning to regret it. I decided deliberately not to consult them on what to watch as I expected it would cause more problems than it solved and in a pre-Christmas-got-a-million-things-to-do moment I ordered Peter Pan. dd1 is now worried it's too baby-ish. I'm torn between memories of how desperately important that sort of stuff is to a 7 year old and sorting out something else and telling her to like it or lump it

DS loves Bedknobs and Broomsticks. As did I...

i loved the water babies

ET - I realised what is was really all about once my parents divorced and I didn't see my dad anymore.

what is it about coby? [dimwit emoticon]

Oh god I loved the Water Babies too have't seen it for years though. I spent ages one christmas getting the twins high quality kids DVD... worst thing i ever did, they played them to death and I went into overkill... now it's all High School Musical, bloody hell!

hatwoman - the story is what it is but it is the emotion involved that is the key. Mr Speilberg went through a bad (parental)divorce when he was a kid and he used the film as therapy to sort of explain how he felt about, being lonely, wanting something really badly, realising you can't have it, saying your goodbyes and letting go and growing up. I've explained it really badly (as per usual) but the relationship between Elliot and ET as that between Speilberg and his Dad...off to sob into my pillow now

oh yes, 'tis me, Coby. Just been told on another thread that my talk name makes me sound like an american yappy dog so I've changed it to this temporarily until I can think of something better....

Amazing Mr Blunden
Railway Children (watched recently with the DCs)
The Incredibles
And the HPs.

maybe that's why it made me cry so much! I saw it aged 13 shortly after my dad left us. a friend invited me round - I think at her mum's instigation to give my mum a break - and boy did I sob. I remember the mum saying "it'll be ok". but to have had someone like that around

the goonies !!!!

"hey you guys" love it lol

jungle book is another fave, as is Robin Hood.

oh im just a big kid really i love them all