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Watching (or at least listening to) kids’ movies is something I do WAY too much, thanks to having two little ones about, so this week’s topic is a very salient one for me. Some of the kids movies are much less painful to watch 20,000 times than others! Here are my favorites:

1. The Lion King – possibly the best last scene in a movie ever (well, at least a kids’ movie), and just great throughout; the combination of story and music works well here in a way it doesn’t always.
2. Mary Poppins – I had never actually seen this until I had kids, now I LOVE it! What great parenting messages, and the interplay of color with the black & white is fascinating at multiple levels. Plus Dick Van Dyke steals the show as Bert.
3. The Incredibles – STRONG female characters, enough said; my kids and I have been waiting impatiently for a sequel on this one!
4. E.T. – my kids actually don’t like this one as much as some of the others, but it made a HUGE impact on me as a child, so gotta have it on the list.
5. Mulan – again, strong female characters, rare in a Disney film! Very engaging story, too, for both girls and boys.
6. Finding Nemo – phenomenal characters, and more good parenting messages
7. The Wizard of Oz – love this one as both a psychologist and a mom!
8. Transformers – okay, I know, this one is inexplicable, I just love this movie somehow…
9. Harry Potter – I know, they’re really books, and the books are MUCH, ***MUCH*** better than the movies. But, still, the movies don’t do a bad job of capturing the magical world – some of the visuals are stunning, and key plot elements are there. My kids still aren’t quite old enough to read the books, so the movies are a good stand-in until then. Order of these movies in terms of favorites so far – 1, 3, 4, 2, 5.
10. Shrek – great messages about inclusiveness and being true to yourself, and at least puts an interesting spin on the whole “rescue the princess” shtick.

Please note, even though I did love them as a child (and continue to as an adult), I don’t consider the Star Wars movies to be children’s movies (in the sense that I don’t think they were made FOR children). If they were children’s movies, they would definitely be at the very top of this list (in the order 5, 4, 6, 3, 1, 2). Other favs that almost made this list – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Monsters Inc.

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I LOVE Mary Poppins! Now you have to get “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and watch it if you have not seen it yet. It is from the 1960′s and I loved it growing up. I still do

Comment by The Social Frog — יז שבט תשסט @ 1:28 pm
Mary Poppins, ET and The Wizard of Oz all made my list too. As did Willy Wonka!

Comment by Nicole — יז שבט תשסט @ 4:01 pm
I love all the Shrek movies!!!

Comment by Vicki — יז שבט תשסט @ 5:40 pm