films for kids

[Jamoid]

my little brother and sister (9 and 7 years old) stay with me most weekends and love a good film, but since i really don't follow mainstream films these days i find it hard to know what to get for them, so would like some ideas.

as for ones i would recommend, well basically all of the studio ghibli films. we all watched "up!" recently too and i thought it was brilliant, even though i generally hate the cgi shite these days. they've seen most of my 80's favourites too, time bandits, willow, the goonies etc.

so, any ideas?

[thembuzz]

the dreamers, secretary and squirt in my gape 3

[Jamoid]

fu lalz

[emef]

irreversible

ahh i see andy beat me to the obvious

why should kids have special films to watch?
kids are shit and the spastic parents that are proud of them

[Jamoid]

they've seen that already mike : ( they loved the bit wi the fire extinguisher

[Jamoid]

naaah i am all for films that adults and kids can enjoy, that's why i think the studio ghibli films are so good. problem is i just don't follow films that much atm, and most of the films i watch just are not for kids.

[emef]

btw jamie, i dint include you and claire and heather in my kids are shit and their spastic parents rant

you're the only kids from a parent i've ever known, i liked

i am drunk

haha

[thembuzz]

coraline was ace

oh, and don't bother with squirt in my gape 3. i just remembered it has quite a scary bit that might be a little too much for young kids

[emef]

did you not video blowtramp4 last weekend andy?

just the title brought out the kid in me
i had a bad upbringing though

[thembuzz]

ah shit, i forgot. have you got a torrent?

[Jamoid]

yeah i was looking forward to watching coraline with them but the little bastards had seen it already. : (

fantastic mr.fox might be worth a try at some point. quite like the eastern european style animation, nice change from the horrible cleancut cgi shit.

[thembuzz]

ooh yeah, i wanna see that

[Jamoid]

i googled blowtramp4 and all that came up was some shit about disney blowing up tramps on ebay.

[Jamoid]

you bastards are just as useless as me!

new dark crystal coming out soonish, they'll be watching that whether they like it or not.

[love_tempo]

bombon el perro is good if subtitles aren't as problem?

[12345678]

http://www.sonypictures.net/movies/cj7/

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

i'd like to see Ponyo, the new Ghibli.. there was one showing at a festival here but I missed it. It was on in Japan when I was there at easter.. obviously no subtitles tho so didn't bother.

[emef]

just give em a harry potter book, thats all kids are worth

fucking tiny cunts




































































is amazing

[Jamoid]

i've asked them before what they think about trying a subtitled film, because a load of the old ghibli films i have are only in japanese. they seemed to be fine with it, but i think in practice it'd be a bit much for my wee sister.

will definitely check that one out though, cheers. (:

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

i'm pretty sure there are dubbed versions.

I find em too much dubbed or subtitled though, never quite know what the fuck is actually going on

[love_tempo]

As far as I can remember, there's nothing in 'King of Kong' that's in any way Adult?

And it's hiliarious, Billy 'King of BBQ Sauce' Mitchell is the best bad guy ever. Everyone can get behind routing for him to lose.

[Jamoid]

er that last post was aimed at love_tempo btw. miss edit. : (

@hectic - just got that one for them tonight actually. i saw it a while back, it's quite childish, even moreso than spirited away etc. still has the ghibli charm though so still excellent.

you have no idea how proud i was of my little sister when she told me pom poko was her favourite film. my little bro loves nausicaa too, probably my favourite. ahh i love the little bastards.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Laputa: Castle in the Sky would have blown my mind as a kid.

[kams]

The High School Musical series is all i'm letting Luca watch at the moment.

He likes the old Moomins felt animations as well - although 7 and 9 is probs too old for that..

I though 'Up' was quite odd. The first 15 mins seemed way over a five yr olds head - and the dogs freaked him out.

Wall-E?

I'm a shit Dad eh?

[love_tempo]

Wall-e was really great!

Spike Jonze film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are at least looks good.

[kams]

Yeah I liked Wall-E, we watched it at the weekend and it takes repeated watchings well.. which matters with 5 year olds. The same episode of Henry's Cat x20 in one morning can get a little wearing.

[Jamoid]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

Laputa: Castle in the Sky would have blown my mind as a kid.

no shit! we watched that one last time they visited. they were all being made roughly the same time i was a kid too, wish i'd known about them.

they make me feel how i did when i watched films as a kid.

problem is, they've seen all the ghibli films a million times (apart from grave of the fireflies hah) and now i realize i barely know any other films that are suitable for kids. can hardly sit down and watch akira kurosawa films with them. : (

[emef]

wall-e was shit
proper shit

[Jamoid]

yeah up was pretty strange, but i just found it had more charm than most of the other cgi films. definitely took inspiration from french cinema.

i really wanted to see wall-e after reading posts about it on here, but they've seen that already ...maybe i could get them to watch it again.

my little bro has been going on about a film called "9" too. sure i saw a short film years back that used similar characters. will keep an eye on that one.

[Jamoid]

yeah the repeated watching thing drives me fucking mental. ice age every, fucking, day. they went through a scoobie doo stage too. ugh.

at least when i was a kid it was star wars, back to the future, willow and the likes that i wanted to watch repeatedly.