Please recommend movies for young kids without scary villains

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Anonymous wrote:They loved Mary Poppins. Are there any others?

Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki) and some (not all) of the other movies he made. Magical, perfect for young kids.

Not Ponyo though - there is a scary guy in that - turns out to be a good enough guy in the end, but it did scare my little one a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think that Curious George has a villain per se That said, my five year old won't watch it because he says it's too sad (the beginning part where they take George away from the jungle, and the middle part when George goes back to the jungle).

Homeward Bound doesn't have villains either, I don't think.

My boys also like Toy Story, but it depends on whether you think the boy next door is a true villain or not. Again, my sensitive boy can't watch the part where the frankentoys come out from Sid's room.

Curious George the movie is WONDERFUL, but my guy won't watch again because it's too sad, too. I thought he was the only one.

Also, Bolt doesn't really have bad guys unless you count the "movie action scenes" at the beginning.

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Anonymous wrote:Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Music Man

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? No. Two words for you: Child Catcher.

Actually I agree with this - my kids were fine with this until the German kid-catchers. I had never seen it, and even I found it a little bizarre. Up until that point, though, great story.

How about Sound of Music (also German bad guys at the end, but somehow different?)

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My 5 year old son is in the same boat. The only movie he really likes to watch is Cars, although he doesn't like the combine Frank during the tractor tipping scene.

We did recently get him to watch Madagascar all the way through. That is pretty much a comedy with only a brief bit of fossa trouble near the end. He was already familiar with the penguins though and really loved those parts.

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People don't find Sid from Toy Story scary? Really?

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Disney's 1977 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is faithful to A.A. Milne and completely innocuous.

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Anonymous wrote:Polar Express - just skip the part with the puppets. The part when they are going down the mountain and slide on the ice may be a little suspenseful, but doesn't seem to be too scary.

Polar Express scares the sh*t out of me. The animation is downright creepy and the story surreal. Avoid.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my 5 year old freaked during UP. The dogs scared the crap out of her.

My then 5 and 3 year old kids freaked out during the storm scene in UP. We didn't even make it to the dogs. Actually, my DD, who is super-sensitive to stuff in movies, got upset during the scene where the old man threw something at the construction worker and the worker had to go to the hospital. Needless to say, we left in the middle of the storm scene.

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Anonymous wrote:I am actually glad to have read this thread. My son is 5 and won't watch most movies. We have been okay with it, and figure many movies were meant for older children anyway. He can handle more scary subjects in books, but not on film. But sometimes we worry that he is too sensitive or that he is the ONLY child that hasn't seen every Disney movie (and even Star Wars) by age 5. It is comforting to know he (and we) are not alone!

Ditto! My DD is 6 and also doesn't like to watch movies b/c she's gotten scared during the few that we've started watching. I'm the one who posted above about having to leave UP during the storm scene. We've also left the theater during Madagascar 2 (gladly, I thought it was horrendous) and she wanted to leave Hop, but since I was there alone with her and my DS who was loving it, and since I did very thorough research on it before taking her so I knew there was nothing that she couldn't handle, we stayed and she was ok. But she has no desire to see Cars 2 (and now that I read the other thread here about how violent it is, I'm not going to take my DS either) and balks pretty much at seeing any movie. Like you, I'm fine with it and honestly, I don't think my parents took me to see movies at this age. But it's always nice to know that I'm not alone!

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Mr. Popper's Penguins.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Music Man

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? No. Two words for you: Child Catcher.

Actually I agree with this - my kids were fine with this until the German kid-catchers. I had never seen it, and even I found it a little bizarre. Up until that point, though, great story.

How about Sound of Music (also German bad guys at the end, but somehow different?)

I was an extremely sensitive child, but I absolutely loved the Sound of Music. It was one of the first VHS tapes I ever watched (1984, I think). My Mom had always stopped the tape at Maria's wedding and told me that was the end! I bought it until I was at least 8 or 9, and by then I was old enough to handle the Nazi scenes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Music Man

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? No. Two words for you: Child Catcher.

Actually I agree with this - my kids were fine with this until the German kid-catchers. I had never seen it, and even I found it a little bizarre. Up until that point, though, great story.

How about Sound of Music (also German bad guys at the end, but somehow different?)

My kids were okay with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but I remember as a child (and still as an adult) being a bit freaked out by the child catcher (althoiygh there's a good lesson to be learned about not going with strangers!). Also, the movie is really long -- 3 hours!
Agree with Polar Express, and what about Ratatouille?

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Are there movies with a plot but no villains? Stories have conflict. One person's scary villain is another person's helpless bad guy, I guess.

Up got a PG rating because the villain plummets to his death. Also, explaining miscarriage and infertility to your child may not be something you want to do.

The rats washing downriver freaked my youngest kid out.

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Like Mary Poppins, Totoro, Yogi Bear Movie (I don't recall much violence, but I might have not noticed).
Dislike Toy Story (boy next door), Homeward Bound (is this the one with the cat that gets washed away? Horrible).

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I second Kik's Delivery Service by Hayao Miyazaki. My daughter also like My Friend Totoro also by Miyazaki. Some of his other ones are scary though.