Best Kid's Film Ever..?

Hmm, really enjoyed seeing James & The Giant Peach again over Christmas. Indeed pretty much all of the Dahl adaptions have been good - and have the correct amount of menace to scare the kids into having fun.

I watched both versions of The Railway Childen over xmas (Jenny Agutter = Bobbie => JA = Bobby's mum). Casting (far) better in the second (get thee hence Bernard Cribbens), but — as my mum tirelessly pointed out every five minutes — the WEATHER was more idyllically golden-age in the first. But that's the 60s for ya.

Pokemon 3 is the gratest film evah made.

Pete is sitting atop all those new Euro notes, every crisply-minted last one of them. Will you should be ashamed of yrself!

i dunno, most kids' films, especially musicals, enrage me. i can't even begin to tell you the insults i shouted at Chitty Chirry Bang Bang when it was on over the hols. however, i did like Shrek (but once again agree with Ronan)... the old skool Disney cartoons, Snow White and RObin Hood (where Robin Hood is the FOX!) i like a lot.

as a kid i was in ph34r of the child-katcher, and wuvved the kids-lib revolution where they rise up and overthrow goldfinger!!

City OF Lost Children, I bet French kids luv that.

Also now I haf the songs in my heads. I love musicals.

Rugrats movie = anethema. And Fantasia was POOP. Disney CHIZ.

Truly Scrumptious You're Truly Truly Scumptious Scrumptious as a Cherry Peach Parfait When your near us It's so delicious Honest Truly, you're the answer to our wishes Truly Scrumptious Though we may seem presumptuous Never, never, ever go away Our hearts beat so unruly Because we love you truly Honest Truly, we do

Aaahhhh.

I'm partial to A Christmas Story in the Best Of talk - it appeals to the jaded little smarter-than-thou snot in me (me nose, that is).

Should I bother mentioning that the only cartoon show I'm aware of that has any sensible grasp of morals and doing what's right & proper is South Park? Or should I be watching KID'S cartoons?

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Er that's "Caractacus", Pete. In case you evah need it for a quiz or summink..

I'm surprised it hasn't been re-made yet. Yesterday, on afternoon telly, I spied a 1997 TVM version of "The Love Bug" with John Hannah in the Dean Jones role.

And what's everyones problem with Danny Kaye. He was a genius.

Other condenders: 'Jungle Book', 'Jason & the Argonauts', 'Battle Beyond the Stars' (which, in the early days of video, made an adeqate stand in for Star Wars when SW was already 'On Hire', which was always).

One of my most blissful childhood memories: spending an unseasonably warm Christmas Eve afternoon in 1977 watching A Night at the Opera on Ted Turner's newly launched Superstation.

Jess knows John Totoro? He's a GRATE actor!

Plenty of films can be seen by kids, whilst not making them kids films. The Big Sleep?

But you are all forgetting FREAKY FRIDAY and most Disney films with Jodie Foster.

Blimey. Flashback trigger! Didn't they show that once on "Picture Box"? If it's the same one, then that was brilliant.

The book is so much better!

That said Toy Story is better. And what about Fantasia?

Disney Foster, yes. Candleshoe?

(Er, that list is not in any particular order - oh, and maybe it should have been posted to the "Top 10 Lists" thread.)

How about...

Watership Down?
Digby - The Biggest Dog In The World?
Herbie Goes Bananas? (Not technically a kids' film however)?
Krull?

Strange request time. I wonder if anyone can solve a mystery that's been bugging me for about 25 years. I remember reading a book and seeing a film of it when I was little, thoroughly enjoyed it aged 6 or whatever and then couldn't work out what it was later.

The details I remember about the film are:
- it started off as live action
- it featured a boy who got in a toy car that whisked him off to a cartoon world
- from this point the film consisted of the child actor superimposed on a cartoon background
- there was a scene where he is in a market, where one stall featured only numbers and the other featured only letters
- it was probably made by Disney.

The only thing that stopped me possibly asking this question is that I like the fact that it's a mystery, that it exists somewhere in my imagination and memory, and it's attained some sort of mythical status for me. If I find out what it is and watch it then I'll almost certainly be disappointed.

But fuck it, I might get run over by a bus tomorrow without ever finding out. So if anyone's got a clue what it is then please let me know.

The book is by Norman Juster, I believe.

So no, you're imagining things *grin*

Doing all the hard work I guess.

I haven't seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in over a decade either, and I don't remember the details - was it supposed to be a steam car? Steam cars are cool. (I seem to remember that it had characteristics of both internal combustion & steam engines.)

"A Nairn - will you marry me? I like your taste in movies. If not, will you raise my kids for me?"

sure, but I think I would have to do it in the 80s when these movies were made.

A Nairn - if I ever end-up with kidlets, they'll be sent off to live with you. And you're welcome to come watch movies with me any time you wish.

The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars
The Gold Rush
The Bad News Bears
The Black Stallion
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Empire Strikes Back
Lawrence of Arabia
E.T.
Beauty and the Beast (Disney version)
The Muppet Movie/The Muppets Take Manhattan/The Muppets Christmas Carol
The Lion King
The Jungle Book
The Red Balloon
City Lights
Breaking Away
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Babe
Addams Family Values
Toy Story
Shrek
Yellow Submarine
The Lorax
The Hobbit
Frankenstein (original)
King Kong (original)
Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
The NeverEnding Story
The Dark Crystal
Adventures in Baby Sitting
Secret of NIMH
A Night at the Opera
Horse Feathers
Spy Kids
Fly Away Home
Kiki's Delivery Service
Jason & the Argonauts
Toy Story 2
Monsters, Inc.
Lady and the Tramp
(and I'm sure I'm missing a lot)