Star Wars: Clone wars, Bad Batch, and Rebels.
All animated, very much not cutesy little kid stuff. War, trauma, death, PTSD for soldiers, all of it. Its also something special to watch a sith lord murder their way out of a ship using nothing but the force.
Edit: oh, movies, my bad. Hmm, thats a little trickier for me.
Grave of the Fireflies will fix that. They’ll yearn for Bluey.
It’s one of my favourite movies that i never want to see again
Make it a marathon and put on Come and See immediately after. Hours of fun all night
Police Academy
The Mask of Zorro (1998, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones)
The Tenth Kingdom
Police Academy: sex and voyeur jokes
Mask of Zorro: suicide of brother, head in jar:
Don’t know. Depends on age of kids.
The princess bride
The Truman Show
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I saw it as a kid, it didn’t scar me for life by any means but it was pretty creepy.
Family friendly / older fare. Labyrinth, goonies, princess bride, frighteners, galaxy quest, original clash of the titans, fifth element, back to the future etc etc.
Lord of the Rings! Ditto for most of the YA film adoptions from the last twenty years
The human centipede
It’s basically a live-action version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
My kids and I watched a lot of Futurama.
When my son first starting getting out of kids movies, he liked Indiana Jones and back to the future a lot. Ghostbusters went over well.
Also, Phineas and Ferb is great for every age. Old Simpsons are good too!
Lots of Spielberg directed stuff fits here I think like close encounters, Indiana Jones, Jaws
The blues brothers I remember was a lot of fun & don’t recall anything that stands out as too adult. tons of music, violence is not very serious
mst3k/rifftrax take a lot of old cheap movies and have comedians joke over the movie’s audio, I think most of it is pretty pg-13 stuff but not pandering to kids
Some Coen brothers/Ethan Coen movies like O brother where art thou and raising Arizona, true grit, add a bit more complexity to stories over kids movies, but keep the violence not too scary
If it wasn’t for a few f bombs the Blue Brothers could have been rated PG. And maybe the used condom joke at the very beginning.
My first thoughts were the naked gun or Monty Python movies.
Naked Gun has some pretty sexual themes, Monty Python less so if you’re only talking Holy Grail. Life of Brian and Meaning of Life have loads of sexual themes and nudity.
I mean, Holy Grail has that whole nunnery sequence where they’re trying to get Galahad to fuck them
I did think of that scene fist which is why I was surprised that it was considered the one with the least sexual themes. That’s how I first found out spanking could be a sexual thing.
Still a lot more tame than the other films.
Being a lot more tame ≠ appropriate for children 😂
I think as a kid, I’d have found this scene funny without really getting it. I’d probably be OK with my kids seeing it, if I had kids.
The 1980s version of Time Bandits is made by the Monty Python team for a family audience!
I keep forgetting there’s a modern version, I’ll add the year on my list to make clear that’s the one I mean!
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy might be good too (at least the six episode TV series that just feels like a long film). I also think it’s a little more appropriate.
How old are your kids?
Tron. Labyrinth. Goonies. Legend. Etc.
And by etc, OP means Princess Bride.
I cannot for the life of me understand the love for this movie. But the love for it spans generations so assume I’m the one in the wrong, but I just don’t see it.
I love this movie so much, but I get it. I feel like you have to have seen it at a certain age in order to really feel it.
Alright, that may be fair. I didn’t see it till I was in my mid 30s. And I will fight to the death with sticks, anybody who doesn’t like hook. So, I get it, but I don’t get it.
It helps if you watch it over and over, until the tape wears out.
I like Hook too. I think I was 8 or 9 when it came out and it was amazing to me. My friend who is just a couple of years older didn’t like it because his younger siblings fucked that up for him by playing it on repeat.
Yes
The Neverending Story
EDIT: Stoopid autocorrect
The Everending Story
Is that a short movie about a kid finishing reading a book about a hero completing his quest?
Yes.
Watched that for the first time while really high in college, and the horse sinking in the swamp really fucked me up lol. I’ve had no desire to revisit it, personally :/
Kids and animals dying really ruin media for me
It’s OK, Artax the horse survived.
HUGE second on all of these
Oh and Willow
The Martian was excellent.
The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was a hell of a lot of fun.
I’m guessing that’s (cartoons or movies) (made for kids), not (cartoons) or (movies made for kids) - so the Spiderverse moves were also excellent.
All right lemme tell you the good news…
I’m gonna second the Spiderverse films.
