Kids' Movies

[Artemis]

Does anyone else here frequently watch kids' movies? I guess it's b/c that's almost all we have at my house (I'm the oldest of 10), but I feel like I never completely grew out of them. I mean, I still instinctively analyze and compare kids' movies. For example, I'll judge the virtues of Disney animation vs. Dreamworks. Earlier tonight I was baby-sitting and ended up watching Disney's [i]The Black Cauldron[/i] and Dreamworks' [i]Sinbad[/i]. The former is one of my favorite Disney movies, although a lot of people have never heard of it. The latter, I was watching for the first time. I've been pretty impressed w/ Dreamworks: [i]The Prince of Egypt[/i] is pretty darn good.
Additionally, when I think of my favorite movies of all time, a lot of kiddie movies end up in the list: [i]Anastasia, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Cats Don't Dance, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Mulan[/i], etc.
How 'bout you guys? Do you still watch kids' movies even though you're a little old, and, perhaps, embarrassed? :blush: Let me know what you guys think.
~art~

[b]Edit: For those of you not reading what's been discussed before you came, we've already decided that most of these movies are not made strictly for kids. They're for everyone. I don't want to get grilled by [i]everyone[/i] for that![/b]

[Kanariya]

[size=1][color=chocolate]Yep, at times I do watch kid movies. I'm really not embarrassed to watch kid movies either; if someone makes a mistake I laugh and point at the TV screen yelling 'your dumb!' O.o
Hm, I guess Disney Movies in particular.
My favorites are Lilo and Stitch, Cinderella, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, and Bambi. Don't laugh, I like Bambi. Just shows what man kind does these days....ah never gets old.[/size][/color]

[White Mage]

[size=1]Some kids movies I'll watch, like Finding Nemo, Shrek,and Monsters Inc. I wouldnt really call these kids movies but more like family. If your talking lion king, little mermaid and etc then No way will I watch those.

The Nightmare Before Chirstmas is the one of my favorite movies and I wouldnt consider it a kids movie ^.^[/size]

[The_Ghost]

Yes, I watch kids movies (and I don't have an excuse!) I like to make fun of some things, but actually, I like them because I have Disney to thank for my appreciation of music. (not the best start, but hey, it got me interested!) I used to talk about the music in movies more than the plot!
I especially love [I]Beauty and the Beast, Lion King,[/I]and [I]Aladdin.[/I] The newer ones I like (not really newer, its just they weren't made when I was like 5) are [I]Anastasia, Mulan, Tarzan, Cats Don't Dance, Treasure Planet,[/I] (even though the animation was terrible) and [I]Prince of Egypt.[/I]
I don't have much valuable information on the Disney/Dreamworks debate, considering the fact that I've only seen [I]Prince of Egypt.[/I] I think their about equal, but I'm not much into animation.
One thing that puts Disney down in my book is their obsession with sequels. Its like, "That worked well, let?s make another one." Most of the time they put half the effort into it and their just sad remakes. It drives me nuts! I just stopped even looking at sequels.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=violet]I watch childrens movies. Sometimes I have an excuse and sometimes I don't. For example, last week I made my friend pop in Mulan. He likes it too tho becuase it reminds him of drag kings.
Monsters INc is one that I saw with my mom when it came out and took over to watch with my friend's kids along with Snow White.
Shrek-well , I wouldn't exacly call Shrek a child's movie. Sure, it used computer animation, but there were a few phallic references that would've gone over the average six year-old's head. That's more of a young-adult movie.
I still watch Disney's Beauty and the BEast as well as Sleeping Beauty and The Sword in the Stone. The music in Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite sound tracks and that's the first animated movie to use computer graphics. Tchichovsky's music is used in the opening of Sleeping Beauty ( I think that's the right composer) And Merryweather is my favorite Faery. As for the sword in the stone, It's an interesting take on young King Arthur and the pre-Camelot era he was raised in.
I could go on in a tangent about child's movies, but I don't thinkI should do that to you good people. I'll just say this one last thing, Cinderella was good, Cinderella 2 wasn't that bad. But I want them to do a follow-up on her stepsisters[/color]

[Artemis]

In general, Disney's sequels have been pretty bad. The only sequel that contended with the original was Toy Story 2, and that was really Pixar rather than Disney.
~art~

[Sara]

[size=1]I watch kids' movies all the time. I see more of them than any other type, by far. Some of them I grew up loving, and some just rock on their own merit (sans nostalgia).

For example, tonight my family watched Disney's [i]Beauty and the Beast[/i]. (It's not my favorite movie, but I am in love with the songs.) I really enjoyed watching it again--I haven't seen it for years--and I know I enjoyed it a great deal more now than I did the last time I saw it.

When I was younger, I really liked Belle because she was such a bookworm--that was [i]me[/i]. And of the Disney Princesses, she looked the most like me, so that was always cool.

Watching it tonight, though, I kept thinking how much younger Belle looked than how I remembered her. Her voice doesn't seem to fit her appearance. /

When the movie was done, I found and printed out the lyrics to most of the songs. They really are good songs.[/size]

[Oukan05]

I'm practicaly a kid movie freak. I watch my favorites like "Finding Nemo (for like a millionth time), Hercules, Nightmare before Christmas, Beauty and the Beast," and so much more. Most importantly, I watch any movie form rated G to R; it's been that way since I was real young. Kids' movies are fun to watch; no matter how old you are. And I must say that it doesn't matter if you're a teen or an adult who watches kid stuff; it makes us feel young again and that's cool.

As a matter of fact after watching Finding Nemo, I feel 10 years younger right now; AHHHH those memories.:D

[DeathBug]

[color=indigo][size=1][font=century]I refuse to degrade great movies by calling them "Kids' movies."

Lilo & Stitch, The Lion King, Pixar movies, NBC...those are great movies for everyone. Just because a kid can see them doesn't make them kid only movies.[/color][/size][/font]

[OtakuSennen]

[color=midnightblue]Yeah, I watch some childrens' movies. Sometimes these films have things a lot of mature people will enjoy, whether it's historical accuracy or simply things that take them back to when they were younger.

Sometimes, if a movie like Cats Don't Dance or maybe even Atlantis is on television, I'll stop and watch for a little while. Some movies that are aimed towards children really appeal to me, for no real reason. Maybe it just takes me back to the days when I was six, when I watched Aladdin every day for a year while eating sausages.

I've seen a few of these movies with interesting sub-morals. No corny believe-in-yourself stuff, but a more subtle sort of philosophy that applies to me. And, when that happens, I tend to like that specific movie more.

I'll watch any movie, I guess, as long as it's not cheesy and too childish. If something has absolutely nothing but fuzzy little animals hopping up and down and singing happy, silly songs for one and a half hours, I would rather jump off a skyscraper than even see a commercial for it.

So.. That's the case with all movies for me, I guess. If the movie's good, despite the genre, I'll at least rent it.[/color]

[Artemis]

I think sometimes I watch these movies (note: for your sake, DeathBug, I won't call them [i]kid's movies[/i]) as though checking to make sure they really are suitable for kids...Dreamworks tends to err in that department, even if it's fleeting. Like, in Road to El Dorado, there's some sexual inneundo....that really bugged me since I had little brothers watching it. There's also a moment in Sinbad when Marina picks up bra lying in Sinbad's cabin noting that it was from a brothel in some city which she names. It was only a moment, but I thought it was tasteless to put it in there.
OtakuSennen, I agree w/ you on the corny morals thing. That stuff really annoys me (in anything, not just [i]these[/i] movies.) I'd like people to respect my intelligence enough to drown me in that senseless crap.

[Nerdsy]

[COLOR=deeppink]I wouldn't call any of the movies I saw mentioned "kid's movies". To me, a kid's movie would be somthing like a Veggietales movie, or that Barney movie from a while ago. I see all of these as family movies.


But yeah, I'll watch them. I'm a Disney-aholic, and you'll be hard-pressed to keep me away from [u]The Neverending Story[/u].[/COLOR]

[Omar Harris]

Well, some of my favorite films include

Space Jam (guilty pleasure)
The Spy Kids Trilogy (SK 3-D sucked however)
Anything animated by Disney (though Pocahontas sucked)
Dreamworks animated films (including the Prince of Egypt and Shrek)
Pixar films
The Dark Crystal
The Neverending Story
Transformers the Movie
and yes, I'm a sucker for Power Rangers the Movie, though the 2nd movie blows

[krippled master]

Since I came to college, I have pretty much watched every movie I own. Once that was done, I moved right into my families movies. I have with me:

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Peter Pan
Beuty and the Beast
The Lion King

One of my alltime favorite movies is Prince of Egypt, that is at my parents house. But yea, I am a sucker for a disney classic. That and I love the toon disney channel. Late night Ducktales and Tale Spin...ROCK!

[Semjaza]

Am I the only one that doesn't consider Disney animated classics or Pixar films to be "kids' movies"? They're made for everyone.

Well, Nerdsy and I are in agreement then lol.

[Japan]

I watching children movies a lot. In fact, one of my favorite movies of all time is a children's movie. That movie is The Lion King. I also enjoy watching Mulan, Beauty in the Beast, and Fox and the Hound. They are all cool in their own little ways.

[Guest rttocs77]

I still love [i] Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland [/i] It has such amazing animation and such a captivating story. It's just... 'magical.'

[RogueA007]

I'm certainly crazy about Disney movies. Well, the ones prior to before Frank Wells died and Michael Eisner screwed up everything at Disney.... to the point we're at today where they shut down the Tokyo, Paris, and Florida animation studios, and 2D animation is gone from Disney's lineup with the exception of the "Direct to Video" lineup of cheapquels ( I mean, does every property have to have a "2" movie and I hope there won't be a "Lion King 1/4th" or something next....) and movies like "Teacher's Pet" that are made by Disney's TV animation unit in Australia. Uh huh. Roy and Stanley Gold had good reason to quit Disney as that's only the tip of the iceberg.

I really don't consider animated movies to be totally kid directed either. There are some themes in them that everybody can relate to, that will touch everybody. And when they do, well that's what makes a hit animation movie most of the time. There's always that "remembrance" factor too that makes you think of your youth whenever an animated movie comes on as well.

My favorite movies:

An American Tale: Fieval Goes West- The very first movie I saw. ^^
Robin Hood- Erm...just do. Like the buzzards (Nutsy and forget the other one's name.)
The Jungle Book- The music I just love.
The Lion King-The movie that made me want to pursue animation as the career I'm planning to study in college and go into....yup....and also had made me want to work one day at Walt Disney Feature Animation until a couple of years ago....*grumble grumble.*.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit- The combination of live action and animation of course.
Space Jam-ditto to above, but with Warner Bros characters. Way better than Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Toy Story- The movie that opened up the field of 3D animation as something possible to do as a feature film.
Shrek- The nice storyline that isn't just for the kids, but for everybody (Donkey!). Brilliant work from the minds of those who used to work at Walt Disney such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chris Miller,etc., and like Pixar, shows that you need story to back up nice animation too. (As in not what Disney's been doing lately because the creativity there has been clamped shut by layoffs and upper management acting stupid.)

[Oukan05]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by RogueA007 [/i]
[B]
My favorite movies:

An American Tale: Fieval Goes West- The very first movie I saw. ^^
Robin Hood- Erm...just do. Like the buzzards (Nutsy and forget the other one's name.)
The Jungle Book- The music I just love.
The Lion King-The movie that made me want to pursue animation as the career I'm planning to study in college and go into....yup....and also had made me want to work one day at Walt Disney Feature Animation until a couple of years ago....*grumble grumble.*.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit- The combination of live action and animation of course.
Space Jam-ditto to above, but with Warner Bros characters. Way better than Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Toy Story- The movie that opened up the field of 3D animation as something possible to do as a feature film.
Shrek- The nice storyline that isn't just for the kids, but for everybody (Donkey!). Brilliant work from the minds of those who used to work at Walt Disney such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chris Miller,etc., and like Pixar, shows that you need story to back up nice animation too. (As in not what Disney's been doing lately because the creativity there has been clamped shut by layoffs and upper management acting stupid.) [/B][/QUOTE]

I've always loved those movies since I was a toddler. You're absolutely right about them. These movies do bring out the mature modes of the story plots that's not just for kids, but for teens and adults too. Shoot, "An American Tale" was I think my first movie when I was either 2 or 3 year old. This movie kind of made me act responsoble like my mom. I think when it comes to movies kids watch that bring out an adult like action, it kind of makes them think harder into their own age in acting more mature. It's sort of a scientific theory I've come up with. Hey, it works anyway.

[Artemis]

Those are some great movies, but I think that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is [i]definitely[/i] not a kids' movie. The villain [i]terrified[/i] me! My mom didn't like my little brothers seeing Jessica Rabbit either... My dad got in some trouble for showing that one to us... Now that I'm older, it's a great movie, but I wouldn't show it to young children. I think, like Shrek, it works better for older people who remember those old animated characters and stories, but have a more mature sense of humor now. I saw Shrek in the theater with my two cousins. There were some children there, but they didn't laugh as hard as my older cousin and I did. The younger one laughed a lot, but not nearly as much as we did. There was a specific age group that Shrek was funniest for.

[4815162342]

Lets see, this is going to be a long list!
1:Lilo and Stitch
2: The Emperors New Groove
3: Treasure Planet
4: Mulan
5: All Herbie the Love Bug movies
6:Princess Diaries
7: Muppet Movies
There are more but this is long enough already and I don't classify these as kids movies cause I'll probably be watching them when I'm 111!