Comments on: 10 classic movies your kids should see

By: Tania McCartney

Tania McCartney — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:23:42 +0000

I have to add The Sound of Music. It’s one of my favourite things. Sigh.

By: mediamum

mediamum — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:11:52 +0000

Whoops! Great call Natalie I obviously need to revisit the movie myself!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:53:46 +0000

I can attest to Back to the Future. I saw it at the cinema when I was 2 yrs old. It started me on a life long love afair with that movie. Now I watched it with my son at 18mnths old. He was addicted and couldn’t stop watching it. We bought him a toy replica time machine. It is his ’security blanket’ he takes every (even bed)!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:51:47 +0000

Hate to nitpick, but the first Back to the Future doesn’t have any hoverboards. It’s set only in 1985 and 1955.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:41:37 +0000

The Princess Bride… hands down the best family movie of all time. Phissik the giant poet, Westley the Hero, Buttercup the Maiden, Wallace Shawn’s Visini: “Inconceivable!”, Inigo Montoya “you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it does”. Hilariously funny, and with arguably the best revenge scene ever put in a movie. And not a single swearword anywhere.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:40:26 +0000

A good list, I have to question The Dark Crystal.Ask anyone in their early thirties who saw this when they were about 5 yo. It was a freaky freaky movie. Parents took children thinking it was a harmless “muppets” movie, not realising the were going to terrify a generation.

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By: DD

DD — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:49:21 +0000

This is an issue of age here – my children (7 and under) have been watching and enjoying “Princess Bride” but I would not show them “Dark Crystal” for a while yet (have tried it and the eldest got scared but loves Muppets ). Similarly Ferris Bueller I would not be showing to lower primary or preschool children. We keep tossing around showing the kids Radiers but the final fight scene makes it a no go for us just yet.
I agree with “Follow that Bird”. If you can find it “Big Bird in China” is a regular watching around here.
Others often seen around here are G&S musicals, “The Court Jester” (Danny Kaye), Star Wars (eps 1, 2, 4, 5, 6), Ghostbusters (kids now sing the song endlessly). Charlie and the Chocolate factory (either version). Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music. Really the list goes on. It isn’t that hard to find older movies that both suit the adults and the kids .

By: Bec

Bec — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:08:18 +0000

My favourites are definetly Labyrinth, Ferris Bueller and The Princess Bride. Raiders is good, though I’d like to amend the “whole series” claim. The whole series, except the most recent one. It’s awful, even Harrison Ford couldn’t save it.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:38:30 +0000

Great list! My young ones have only seen two on the list, I myself am only missing two on your list.

By: Adrienne Saia

Adrienne Saia — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:01:41 +0000

I agree with the majority of these – especially Labyrinth! I got it for my birthday and it’s as good as I remembered (including The Thin White Duke in spandex). I would also add “The Sound of Music” and Sesame Street’s “Follow That Bird.” The lessons (and music!) in both are timeless. Great post, Jo.