Pixar is NOT DISNEY!!! DAMN IT!!!
Just because Disney bought them is irrelevant. I am also pissed off that I saw Finding Nemo and Disney laid their claim to it. FInding Nemo was made before Disney even bought Pixar!
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Time to make an effigy of Disney and burn it.
It suffers from Disney Dead Mom Syndrome. That isn’t a comment on whether it is by Disney, just that it uses the same overused trope.
While I like a lot of these, my vote goes to Babe. Good message, good acting, great effects, funny and moving, the obligatory scary scenes that aren’t so scary they give nightmares, and just enough surreal touches to cut the saccharine to a palatable level.
Err… every Pixar full-length movie was distributed by Disney. Every one of them has a Disney logo on the cover. Every one starts with a shot of a CG version of Cinderella’s castle. All their characters appeared at Disney parks even before Disney bought Pixar. That Pixar used to be an independent company doesn’t make Finding Nemo, et al, “Not Disney.”
You can always fast-forward past the kissing parts. (Great movie though.)
I’ve been reading that EW “Greatest 100” list, and although I think they include a couple of clunkers, and have a couple rated too low, it has inspired me to “fill in the gaps” in my movie watching experience. For example I’ve only seen 12 of their top 20 films and a little over half of their top 60.
I’ve decided over the next year to work my way through the list, re-watching movies I’ve seen before and finally getting around to the great ones I’ve never gotten around to like “Some Like it Hot” and “Bonnie and Clyde” and a couple of the foreign ones I missed in film school.
Maybe this should be a different thread, but why “Mean Streets” and not “Raging Bull”? Why Murnau’s “Sunrise” but not “Nosferatu”? Some of their choices are weird.
I like Babe: Pig in the City even better, although it might be a little scarier for very young kids who fear abandonment.
Seconding this, probably because it was a fixture on New Zealand TV over Christmas when I was a kid and we always watched it at Nana’s.
Absolutely. That one has just enough saccharine to cut the surreal! 
An oldie. Don’t know if kids would relate to it today: The Great Race, with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, and Jack Lemmon in several roles. I liked it as a 10-year-old, and I like it as an adult.
I like Pixar’s Up as well.
My 12-year old grandson saw The Great Race, but, alas, was bored to tears (except for Peter Falk as Max: him, he liked).
Any other fans of The Sand Lot?
Yeah,the pacing was different in those days. Pity. ISTR it was a longish movie. They’d probably hack it up and bring it in at 90 minutes if they remade it.
I think I might have to re-watch it now.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Okay, yeah, the chocolate river scene was nightmare-fuel creepy (I personally loved it even when it freaked me right the hell out as a wee one), but other than that it was a good family film and aged pretty well.
My Neighbor Totoro has been our family favorite since the kid was 5. We get it out at least once a year. Kiki’s Delivery Service is a close second.
Clearly the perfect family film is Watership Down, a sweet countryside tale of rabbits dying a horrifying heart-wrenching death.
Or The Secret of Nimh, a magical adventure story surrounding the madcap world of animal testing for scientific experiments.
Or Radio Flyer, a heartwarming drama of two brothers who have to deal with violent child abuse.
In all seriousness if I was a parent I’d list Labyrinth and The Neverending Story as my favourite family films.
The Godfather.
Oh, wait, not that kind of family movie? Oh, OK. How about The Rookie as a dark horse candidate?
I’m inordinately fond of WALL-E and How To Train Your Dragon.
I love The Princess Bride, and quite like Stardust.
Our family favorite is The Emperor’s New Groove. We can’t under why it never gets any love. And another vote for Kiki’s Delivery Service, too.
My family loves all things Froud and Muppets, and Labyrinth is definitely on our Top10 List. My grandson’s middle name is Jareth, after the Goblin King. It was my daughter’s idea, but he loves it.