Movies: What is your favorite "adult" kids movie?

[Spring in Fialta]

I'd love to see a well-made cinematic version of The Little Prince. It's one of my favorite stories in the world and I feel it has a lot of potential aesthetically for the visual arts but I haven't seen or heard of a well-made version (in french I might add).

 

[kdb209]

It'd be really nice to have a new adaptation, one that replaces the odious first one and captures the charms of the novel. Imagine if Disney were to do a 3D-animated version. It could be challenging, but they could handle limited bunny deaths like they did Simba's father in The Lion King and make chase scenes exhilarating, rather than suspenseful and scary like the 1978 version did.

There was a 1999-2001 British & Canadian made TV series (39 half hour episodes) which took elements from the book and then expanded it with new material. All the episodes are available on YouTube.

 

[Oscar Acosta]

The Tigger Movie

His search for somewhere to belong actually has a lot of parallels to people, and his emotions in the process are surprisingly genuine for a kids movie. Not sure it's for adults, but any time my kid wants to watch it - it's pretty accurate to adult life and I want to jump into the movie and give Tigger a ****ing hug.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Watching Return to Oz on Disney+

Loved this movie as kid and it still holds up

Return to Oz is better then The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz

 

[kihei]

I don't know if "favourite" is the right word, but the first movie that came to mind was Witches with Anjelica Huston. Freaked the kids out a bit. I remember looking at my partner and us trading glances that said "What have we done?"

 

[zombie kopitar]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Princess Bride
Nightmare Before Christmas
Babe

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

A couple that come to mind from my childhood are The Black Hole and, to a much lesser degree, Tron. Both late 70s/early 80s. Maybe not directly made for kids but certainly kiddie friendly/kiddie adjacent. I mean both are Disney and both had toy lines so not not kids movies.

I'll do Tron first -- the scene where Flynn is sucked into the game FREAKED ME OUT. David Warner's giant looming head was always unsettling too. (Also, speaking of his looming head, maybe Time Bandits is worth a mention too).

I wrote about The Black Hole in the Last Movie thread a few months back. It's so weird and dark. Upsetting robot-on-robot violence, some real creepy imagery throughout especially with a super trippy sequence at the end of the movie where the villain merges with his robot creation and (spoiler alert) DESCENDS INTO HELL. Again, ostensibly a kids movie. I had some of the toys

 

[NyQuil]

Yes it's a kids movie.

I had the cassette and book thing where you would turn the page at the noise.

Needless to say, this part was missing from the kids book.

 

[Mimsy]

I had the cassette and book thing where you would turn the page at the noise.

I also had the book and 45 rpm record for this one. Still have it!

 

[kingsholygrail]

Favorite? Dragonheart.
Least favorite? ET. Hated that movie as a kid. Nightmare fuel.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

It should have been the Tintin movie but Spielberg ended up Spielberg-ing it and it was like an animated version of an Indiana Jones film where they just get chased from one place to another rather than being an interesting mystery like the cartoons. Whatever it was fine. I'll go with Shrek.

 

[Suxnet]

Shrek and Jumanji.

 

[x Tame Impala]

Labyrinth

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Do Marvel movies count? Because certain people like to call those kid movies.

 

[chaos4]

Love this movie.

 

[KMart27]

The 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.