Recommended family friendly or kids' movies

[November Rain]

In the last few weeks, I've just acquired a DVD player (yeah, I know) & bought some movies for littl'un & I)

For him I bought the first Harry Potter movie, a Winnie-the-Pooh Hallowe'en movie, The Simpsons (OK, that was for me, too) which turned out (even after being returned & replaced) to be a dog movie called Snow Buddies - what d'you expect for 100bt? -, Kung Fu Panda, Stuart Little 3, Ant Bully, and the first Garfield Movie.
The far & away favourite for both of us is Kung Fu Panda - it's fantastic & the graphics are amazing, though we're both rather impressed with Ant Bully, too.

Does anyone have any favourites of their family they'd like to share?

[melvbot]

In the last few weeks, I've just acquired a DVD player (yeah, I know) & bought some movies for littl'un & I)

For him I bought the first Harry Potter movie, a Winnie-the-Pooh Hallowe'en movie, The Simpsons (OK, that was for me, too) which turned out (even after being returned & replaced) to be a dog movie called Snow Buddies - what d'you expect for 100bt? -, Kung Fu Panda, Stuart Little 3, Ant Bully, and the first Garfield Movie.
The far & away favourite for both of us is Kung Fu Panda - it's fantastic & the graphics are amazing, though we're both rather impressed with Ant Bully, too.

Does anyone have any favourites of their family they'd like to share?

Wall-E
Watched it with the nipper again today.

The Iron Giant
An absolute classic kids film that I watch on my own as well

The Lion King

Madagascar

The boy loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on too, TMNT

101 Dalmations had my son, my wifes 13 yr old sister and a few others in stitches.

Jungle Book

Finding Nemo

Ice Age

Superdog

[Gerbil]

Shrek

[Loombucket]

Shaun the sheep

Tansformers

Garfield 2

Magic Roundabout - The Movie

Dougal & The Blue Cat

The first and the last 'Herbie' adventures

Around the world in 80 days cartoon (original tv movie, not the remade movie version) Fillias Fog is a Lion.

Wallace and Grommit - The Wrong Trousers

The Adventures of TinTin

Back to the Future, parts 1 & 3

Captain Scarlet - Original puppet thing

Space Patrol - Original Puppet thing (pre dates Gerry Anderson)

Sapphire and Steel - Series 1-6 David McCallum & Joana Lumley

Flight of the Navigator

Lazy Town

Trumpton

Space 1999 - Martin Landau & Barbara Bain(mission impossible)

How many shelves do you have? Or, more importantly, how old is the young man and what sort of thing makes you laugh out loud? ( Or do you prefer to bit a bit terrified???)

[November Rain]

Love the Wallace & Gromit movies, the Shrek movies & Jungle Book myself!

Thanks for all of the suggestions - I have a feeling things like Captain Scarlet & the Transformers would go down well.

Not seen Finding Nemo or Ice Age, but quite fancy them.

[lurch]

The princess bride
The secret of NiMH

[lurch]

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[killerbees]

Don't know how old your kid is, but I loved Goonies when I was young (and actually still like it now). Don't know how easy it would be to find over here though. Good action/adventure movie about pirates and it hask a Cycndia Lauper soundtrack, which might be a plus/minus for you, not sure.

I'd second Princess Bride as you'd probably enjoy it just as much as the kids would.

[melvbot]

I think that NR's going to be limited to what the local DVD seller might have, the princess brides a great film but I doubt it will be easy to find on DVD anywhere here. The newer and classic stuffs a better bet.

[Gerbil]

I'd second Princess Bride as you'd probably enjoy it just as much as the kids would.

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

[melvbot]

I'd second Princess Bride as you'd probably enjoy it just as much as the kids would.

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Prince Humperdinck: Surrender!
Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.

[toslti]

E.T. and remember to get some Kleenex in!!

[astasinim]

As said above.

Ice Age movies.

Shrek movies.

Big daddy.

Snow dogs (Buddies is a different one).

Mask

Wallee.

Star wars.

Lord of the rings. (might be a bit long though)

Finding Nemo

Toy story.

[killerbees]

Saw Princess Bride in the theater on my birthday, way back when. Enjoyed it. Saw it again when I was about 20, couldn't believe all the jokes and everything that I'd missed as a kid. I think the first time I saw it I was fully bowled over by Andre the Giant (RIP) and all the swashbuckling. Since I've revisited it, I have come to appreciate the genius of Christopher Guest and the rest of the cast. I think the line that struck me was along the lines of, "May I live a thousand years, and never hunt again," or something like that. Good stuff. And the ROUS's scared the hell out of me when I was little. Nowadays, not so much.

[Gerbil]

E.T. and remember to get some Kleenex in!!

Pervert!

[Loombucket]

I have a feeling things like Captain Scarlet & the Transformers would go down well.

When's his birthday? I have detailed Captain Scarlet files.

[November Rain]

When's his birthday? I have detailed Captain Scarlet files.

July. I'll probably get him a few DVDs for Christmas, though.

I think that NR's going to be limited to what the local DVD seller might have, the princess brides a great film but I doubt it will be easy to find on DVD anywhere here. The newer and classic stuffs a better bet.

Spot on, unfortunately.
Wish my internet connection was up to letting me download stuff for myself. Bet there are some old episodes of the Banana Splits floating around cyberspace that I could download for him, if it was.

Some great suggestions there, thanks all.

Big daddy.

Love that one, myself.

Have never seen The Princess Bride - I've obviously missed out on something, haven't I?

[pompeybloke]

^ Sean the sheep is class as is Wallace and Gromit- same maker, Nick Park from Bristol.
Got truckloads of dvd's from amazon posted to my dad in Bighty and forwarded on here. Best ones include Kipper the dog, Maisy's farm and Percy the park keeper also from my day got the herbs and the wombles for nostalgic reasons.

Good movies include chitty chitty bang bang, james and the giant peach, lady and the tramp, aristocats and the lion king (as previously mentioned)

You can get mainstream classic disneys here in LOS but amazon is best for old favourites.

Best

[Bobcock]

No one said Ratatouille??????????????

Wonderful film.

Toy Story 2, still the best film of the genre in my opinion.

[pompeybloke]

^ Got Ratatouille recently at big c and although it's not bad the dialogue is too quick- it's like the characters have all dosed up on amphetamin before the show, but that's probably because it's a cheap thai copy. Found that with a few movies bought here....bee movie too, almost incomprehensible.

[Panda]

At 100 baht per DVD rental it might be worth considering upgrading your Internet connection so you can download and burn unlimited movies for free?

[BugginOut]

Try any of the Pixar films. A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, Cars, Monsters Inc, and the Barbie cartoons are filled with good entertainment for girls and basic moral lessons. You MUST see The Princess Bride. Kids love Star Wars, too. Try some documentaries like BBC's Planet Earth--fascinating & breathtaking footage. I think with all these recommendations from everyone it's time to start shopping and/or downloading!

[melvbot]

At 100 baht per DVD rental it might be worth considering upgrading your Internet connection so you can download and burn unlimited movies for free?

Some logic in that. My TOT's 700bt for a 1.5meg connection, if you download stuff early morning or later at night a 700mb Xvid or AVI takes anywhere between 3-5 hours.
Ive just whacked The Princess Bride in the download box, havent seen it for ages.
NR do you know if your DVD player can play XVIDS and AVI files ?

[lurch]

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[November Rain]

At 100 baht per DVD rental

That's not rental, that's buying.

it might be worth considering upgrading your Internet connection so you can download and burn unlimited movies for free?

I would love to. Sadly, I still don't have the phone line & internet package I ordered from TOT 3 months ago when I moved into this place. I'm still using a borrowed mobile phone contraption which says it gives reaonable speeds (it says it's on 1.14MB at the moment & that's far slower than usual), but in reality isn't even fast enough to watch short Youtube vids.

NR do you know if your DVD player can play XVIDS and AVI files ?

No idea, I'm afraid