Movie that parents will love but appropriate for kids also

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Sister is turning 40 so I’m renting a lawn movie screen for her family and my parents to watch a movie. Her kids are 7 and 10 and will be watching also so needs to be appropriate for them to see but I care more about my sister enjoying it than the kids.

Ideas?

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Princess Bride

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Sound of Music
Wizard of Oz

Heck, I like good movies which include Monsters Inc., Inside Out, Frozen, Neverending Story, Muppets, etc.

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Goonies
Mulan (the 1998 version)

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By parents I mean my sister (40)....not the older parents.

So not like an old classic, something fun that she probably hasn't seen before

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I thought the new Sonic was fun and watched it with my kids (5 and 7).

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Aliens in the Attic

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A League of their Own

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Wall-E

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The Big Year is a nice movie. It is on HBO now.

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School of Rock

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Ay marvel movie, any pg-13 action or comedy movie from the last decade. As much as people on DCUM keep referencing "classics" from the 80s and 90s, kids today simply do not like these movies. They move a LOT slower than movies from the past 10 years, they contain unnecessary exposition that does not move the story forward, and the effects are outdated. It's very difficult for kids (and adults) to get immersed in old films and film is supposed to be an immersive experience. A League of their Own?! LMAO!

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Anonymous wrote:Ay marvel movie, any pg-13 action or comedy movie from the last decade. As much as people on DCUM keep referencing "classics" from the 80s and 90s, kids today simply do not like these movies. They move a LOT slower than movies from the past 10 years, they contain unnecessary exposition that does not move the story forward, and the effects are outdated. It's very difficult for kids (and adults) to get immersed in old films and film is supposed to be an immersive experience. A League of their Own?! LMAO!

My kids did like a League of their Own, as well as Princess Bride, Apollo 13, and Monty' Python's Holy Grail (we skipped the scene with the virgins). I agree that many older movies have a slower pace that kids today don't like, though.

I surprisingly really enjoyed Spiderman Into the Spiderverse. I also really liked Song of the Sea (Irish independent film -- slower than U.S. kids' movies but my impatient kids were drawn in).
Something like the female Ghostbusters might be fun, but not sure if you would think it was okay for the kids.
I've been wanting to watch the Tom Hanks movie about Mr. Rogers, but my kids haven't been willing to watch it.

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Anonymous wrote:Ay marvel movie, any pg-13 action or comedy movie from the last decade. As much as people on DCUM keep referencing "classics" from the 80s and 90s, kids today simply do not like these movies. They move a LOT slower than movies from the past 10 years, they contain unnecessary exposition that does not move the story forward, and the effects are outdated. It's very difficult for kids (and adults) to get immersed in old films and film is supposed to be an immersive experience. A League of their Own?! LMAO!

My kids did like a League of their Own, as well as Princess Bride, Apollo 13, and Monty' Python's Holy Grail (we skipped the scene with the virgins). I agree that many older movies have a slower pace that kids today don't like, though.

I surprisingly really enjoyed Spiderman Into the Spiderverse. I also really liked Song of the Sea (Irish independent film -- slower than U.S. kids' movies but my impatient kids were drawn in).
Something like the female Ghostbusters might be fun, but not sure if you would think it was okay for the kids.

I've been wanting to watch the Tom Hanks movie about Mr. Rogers, but my kids haven't been willing to watch it.

New poster.

PP, regarding just the bold re: "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" -- it is not a movie for kids, unless by kids you mean perceptive tweens or teens who are OK with seeing problematic adult family relationships (abandonment, alcohol, a fistfight between adults, death of a parent) depicted and worked through.

It is a terrific, very moving film, but it is not about Mr. Rogers; it is not a biography of him or an account of his show. It's based on the real story of a tough, confrontational investigative journalist who had to interview Fred Rogers (against the writer's wishes) and who ended up finding a real measure of peace with his own family issues, through the lessons he absorbed from knowing Mr. Rogers.

I would recommend it to any adult or teen but not to children at all. It's as kind and loving at its core as Mr. Rogers himself was -- but it's not a children's film. The main character is very much the troubled writer, not Mr. Rogers. Just thought you should know, in case you didn't.

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Spirited Away