Mumsnet users share with Prime Video their favourite family films

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Great family films are often passed down through generations and not only do the films themselves bring great memories but also the memorable characters. Coming together to watch a film as a family can be a great way to spend time with your loved ones. Prime Video would love to know what your family films are and why?

Here’s what Prime Video have to say: “The smash hit family film Paddington 2 has just been added to Prime Video, joining thousands of great movies and TV shows the whole family can enjoy. Paddington 2 sees the loveable bear settled into life with the Brown Family and starting to do some odd jobs so he can buy Aunt Lucie a birthday present. Before he can get it, the gift is stolen by a master thief and Paddington is the suspect.”

“To celebrate, we want to hear what classics you watch with your kids. Prime Video has many to enjoy including Yogi Bear, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Gruffalo, Casper, The Wizard of Oz, Nanny McPhee, E.T, Beethoven, Tom and Jerry, Pingu, Thomas and Friends, Scooby-Doo, Kung-Fu Panda and Shaun The Sheep.”

What do you enjoy watching with your whole family? Do you go for the classic such as ET and The Wizard of Oz or do you prefer the new films such as Kung Fu Panda? Or maybe your family has a staple film that you all watch on special occasions?

Whatever your favourite films are to watch as a family, share them on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw to win 1 of 3 Amazon Fire Kids Edition Tablets, made just for kids.

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We have 4 children aged 4- 11 so finding things everyone is happy to watch can be hard! Popular ones have been the Despicable me films, Trolls, and the Cars films.

Dd adores Moana. It was my secret weapon when she was small, because I could play the soundtrack whilst I had a shower and she would sit in her bouncer in the bathroom and be mesmerised. Sadly now she’s toddling nothing works! But it’s still a cracking film.

Any Disney film is always popular. Captain underpants is on almost constantly at the minute and we've just seen the Incredibles 2 at the cinema which DD already can't wait to come out on sky

Inside Out, such a good message.

Any Harry Potter
Jurassic park
jurassic world
Any Disney film

Pixar and animated Disney films are usually the biggest hit all round, DC are just starting to get in to musicals too so I am excited about that as I love musicals and look forward to taking them to the theatre to watch some (they are already fans of the theatre but not seen any musicals)

Gone are the days when I could say things like The Aristocats or the Little mermaid. My older dc are teens now and the last movies we watched as a family were The Avengers, Deadpool and Black Panther.

Ds2 has only just turned 1 and I can’t wait until he’s a bit older so I get to watch films like megamind, the incredibles, and no doubt all the Thomas the Tank Engine movies with him!

We love hotel traselvania it's our fav also love the incredibles and little mermaid

mary poppins, wizard of oz, lion king

We have so many but will give our top 3:-

The original Charlie and the chocolate factory because I watched it all the time when was little now my children watch it and it's one of their favourites.
Disney Aristocats because it was my favourite Disney movie as a child so I have carried it on with my little ones and they really enjoy to watch it.
Toystory 3 as me and my partner watched as our first date together 8 years ago and the children now enjoy it

Current favourite is Polar Express- trains and Christmas in one! Otherwise enjoys Moana and despicable me.

ET
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mary Poppins
Up

The Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the original) and Nanny McPhee

Star Wars, Harry Potter, Big Hero 6, Despicable Me, The Incredibles 1 and 2, The Muppets

We really enjoyed the Paddington films! They were a lot of fun. We're still obsessed with The Greatest Showman too!

1. Minions
2. Despicable Me 2 (&1)
3. Jungle Book

Others include Shrek (all) and Happy Feet 1&2

My children are still quite young, they love watching anything feelgood like trolls or frozen.
They also love watching short films like ‘going on a bear hunt’ and ‘highway rat’.
My eldest watched the first Harry Potter and now is desperate to watch the others!

Toy Story 1, 2 & 3
Incredibles 1 & 2 - even now as teenagers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Wall-E (younger DS was largely non-verbal at this point in time)
Shaun the Sheep was better as a series
The Wrong Trousers and the Were Rabbit, on the other hand, are awesome.
Polar Express - the hot chocolate scene is still talked about
A Monster in Paris
A town called Panic
Azur and Asmar
Pinocchio 3000
My Neighbour Totoro
Zathura
Night at the Museum 1
Aladdin
The Hunchback of Notredame
The Princess and the Frog
Finding Nemo
Pingu but only the originals, which are quite different.
Shrek - all because of Donkey
Wow - such lovely memories - thank you

The only films to guarantee the whole family sit down together to watch time after time are Nanny McPhee, Muppets Christmas Carol and Ferris Buellers Day Off.

Harry Potter, the Railway Children and The Santa Clause. DS is still a bit young at the moment so I think there'll be a few runs of Toy Story (probably most of Pixar's back catalogue actually!) before we get to those.

Finding Nemo 'just keep swimming swimming swimming'
Inside Out - Oh those emotions !
The Lion King ' hakuna matata'

Star Wars (the 1977 Version)
Home Alone
Mrs Doubtfire

We love.....
Toy Story
Karate Kid (both versions)
The Corpse Bride

Jumanjii (the Robin Williams version)
How to train your dragon
Alice in wonderland
and our seasonal favourite ELF (also throughout the year as our go-to movie)

The Jungle Book