Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Best Movies For Kids - Oldies but Goodies

I was thinking about children's movies and how much they've changed since I was a little kid.  Most of the movies I watched were actually Disney TV movies, not theatre releases at all, but I loved them just the same. Here are the trailers from some of my favourites.

Condorman - Apparently there isn't a studio trailer for this one, so many fans have made their own trailers.

Leonard Part 6 - The premise of this comedy, featuring Bill Cosby, was that there had been 5 previous adventures that were classified and unavailable.  This was supposedly the sixth adventure and the only one to be released to the public. I should warn you that IMDB rates this as one of the worst movies of all time, but kids don't know about rating systems and love it anyways.

Earth Star Voyager - I loved this one sooo much, but Disney hardly ever seemed to play it.  I think this began my love affair with the Sci-fi Fantasy genre.

Flight of the Navigator

Honey I Shrunk the Kids

Parent Trap - There was no trailer for this one, so you get a clip instead.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - This is an oldie, but I remember laughing and laughing while watching this movie with my little brothers.

Any Pink Panther movie

Short Circuit


What were your favourite childhood movies?

UPDATE:

I was at my friend's house today and came across this gem that I had totally forgotten about!  My kids are watching it right now.

The Cat from Outer Space

4 comments:

  1. I loved all the ones from Mayfield college like, The computer wore tennis shoes, and the monkey's uncle. Parent trap is one of my favourites too as well as Freaky Friday.

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  2. You forgot to put the BRAT patrol on there. Karlene and I wore out to VHS tapes of that one. It's on You Tube as well, I should watch it again sometime.

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  3. Used to watch E.T. and Secret of Nimh all the time. Totally household fav's.

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    1. Can you believe that I've never seen E.T.? I loved the Secret of Nimh, in the way that you love to be slightly scared and creeped out as a child, which is why my kids haven't seen it yet. Some other creepy movies that I watched as a child were "The Last Unicorn" and "The Dark Crystal".

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