When was your toddler old enough to sit through an entire film?

[DitaVonCheese]

We have family movie night on a Saturday night but 3 yo DD still finds a full-length film far too long and will get up and start playing partway through so we've been watching the (27 min long) Gruffalo for the past however many months. Someone I know took her twins to see Toy Story 3 at the cinema for their 2nd birthday so just wondering when it's usual for a toddler to be able to sit through a whole film, not that we're in any particular rush. She will sit through several hours of CBeebies/Charlie & Lola um I imagine

About 3 years. For one, it was the Lion King when they were 3, for another we went to see Hunchback of Notre-Dame at the cinema, for another Mulan at the cinema. All my kids were film-watchers from an early age: no getting up and wandering about. Now they're all old and all real film addicts, they find it strange (and impossible) when their mates start talking halfway through a film, or get up to do something, or can't be bothered to watch the whole thing.

We started taking DS to young kids' films at the cinema about 2.5yrs - ones that are an hour long like Thomas, Bob the Builder,Fireman Sam etc & have just gone up to 90mins like the Lion King at 3.5yrs old. We haven't watched films at home but it's a nice idea for when DC2 come along.