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innit?

So to speak.

it was an odd choice for a Christmas movie

Good old-fashioned kids romps with a bit for the adults to nod and laugh at.

Do you have something against Ratatouille?

If ever there was a film that had aged so badly

It had all of the elements needed for a really good film, but somehow it didn't do it for me.

stuff over the past decade

Bridge to Terabathia
Deathly Hallows 1&2
The Amazing Spiderman

Go so far as to say that it has been The Golden Age of animation

Spiderman 1 and 2 though.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

and it felt pretty Christmassy for some reason.

Hence why i'm bringing the Muppets home with me this year.

because it's obviously hugely derivative.

I like to think of it as an homage to rather than a rip off of films like The Goonies, Explorers and Stand by Me. Got no problem with that and hope it brings as much joy as those films did, to the younger generation.

Plus, Elle Fanning is superb.

is a cracking film!

Mostly for that kid from Son of Rambow's wonderful performance as cousin Eustace.

I've watched attack the block with the family

was fun

Got quite heavily criticised, but it's pretty good action-adventure nonsense that's done quite charmingly.

Otherwise, School of Rock.

are both rollicking romps for the family to enjoy. Game of Shadows starts off a bit miffling but once it hits its stride it is the superior of the two. Lane Price IS Moriarty.

district nine

OP "you could imagine watching on tv with your family around christmas time"..

I love Anchorman but it's hardly one for the kids, unless I want my children screamin "I'm gonna kick you in the ovaries" at each other.

The Spiderwick Chronicles was actually a decent enough film and I've sat through the first Narnia film with my daughter who was five, she enjoyed it. Think the rule is to avoid anything Brendan Fraser/Adam Sandler related.

<3 District 9. Not sure it's family film stuff though. Lot of comedy gore in the last half.

It's really very good.

all the Marvel movies (Ironman 1&2, Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Avengers)
Pirates of the Carribean (1st one only) Pretty much perfect matinee viewing. Watched it with the not really film watching parents one xmas and they loved it
Stardust - very fun fantasy fairytale
Sherlock Homles (the RDJ ones)

or decent

I reckon the first pirates of the Caribbean has a good stab at being that type of film, wracked my brain thats the best I could come up with. strange the family film must have the biggest potential market

Or perhaps not.

wonderful, wonderful stuff.

was gonna suggest it myself but you're going to have to go for Howl's Moving Castle* instead, sorry

*still not seen

but I'm amazed it hasn't made it into this thread yet

Has literally everything you could want in this sort of film. And more.

I guess Howl's Moving Castle will do even tho I didn't like it quite as much

not seen Ponyo either. or Tales of Earthsea tho that's meant to be not particularly good

(others being Totoro and SA obv)

PM is a rousing psychedelic fight against the destroyers of life, cmooooon

Haven't watched Spirited Away in years though, should probably rectify that.

Took the missus' ten year old sister to see it and we were all bored rigid for at least 60% of it.

Mouse Hunt!

and pshaw to your restrictions on release year.

Crank

and it was fun as a gun - perfect Xmas film, not sure you'd show it to the kids...but nothing really astray tbh

Crank you'd have to have pretty cool kids to screen in front of. But yeah, two sterling choices

it's nice if you like lense flare effects.

but it came out in 1997 or something
I only watched it for the first time the other day but I was completely blown away.

on a bit of Ghibli kick right now. Totoro's definitely my favourite. might extend it to other anime as well - I don't know a huge amount about it tbh

^5

was a little disappointed with it when I first saw it but it's grown on me

I can't stop banging on about it, but I'll submit it without introduction - you'll just have to trust me

MIND GAME

http://www.1channel.ch/watch-13787-Mind-Game

obviously Akira too

oh god that takes me back

(tho prefer the comix)

Mindgames looks cool, will watch it at some point. the last non-ghibli anime film I watched was Paprika which was slightly similar to Inception in it's concept, except y'know, it was actually good

we should exchange notes when we're done or something

LOL ITS FAST AND ZOOMY LIKE A BIG BLOCKBUSTER EXCEPT IT'S SET IN A LITTLE TOWN

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists had some great bits. didn't really work overall, and the books are much better (even if there is a horribly inaccurate representation of Nietzsche)

it's pretty feel good in a really gritty way, but not so gritty you couldn't watch it with family

actually maybe it is. either way it's great.

no one's asking you to watch it again.

character development and was just the disasters one after the other then it'd be PERFECT!

its appalling

<3 School of Rock

Panavision anamporphic-shot movies were THE BOSS. I *want* my films to look like Star Wars and Die Hard.