# What's your favorite childhood movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2002, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254 "2002-04-29T09:51:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/1 "2002-04-29T09:51:42Z")
Saturday night, some friends and I went to go see a midnight showing of **Labrynth**. Honestly, I didn’t see this movie until I was 20, so it’s never had that special a place in my heart. To my hearts joy, though, we discovered someone screwed up in the scheduling, and instead, we were treated to a viewing of **The Dark Crystal** , which was my all time favorite movie as a small kid. The Skeksis were absolutely awesome and terrifying, and I’ve always wanted one of those swords they used in their “Trial by Stone.” It was just a great fantasy movie, especially for a little kid. Suspense, enough monsters and ghoolies to keep me afraid yet interested, and a fun plot. It was a good weekend. So, what are some other great childhood movies you remember? ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/2 "2002-04-29T10:03:29Z")
**The Goonies** - The thought that there’s a huge adventure with pirates, gangsters and treasure all in your own backyard is the stuff of childhood dreams. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/3 "2002-04-29T10:15:22Z")
Ack! The Dark Crystal freaked me out! I remember The Secret of Nymm being a big kids movie. That one disturbed me too. I guess I was a pansy-assed little kid. Now all I can remember is the weird stuff. Maybe I’ll be back later with some ones that I enjoyed. Lorie ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/4 "2002-04-29T12:13:58Z")
The movie that stuck with me longer than most did was hands down, [Bless The Beasts and Children](http://www.skyhighpictureshow.com/blessbeastsandchildren.htm). Running a close second was [Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](http://www.chittychitty.com/docs/1_home.html), a film so FILLED with double entendres and innuendo that it makes “Shrek” look like “Bambi”. Additionally, the fantasy and incredibly layered [The Phantom Tollbooth](http://members.fortunecity.com/roogulator/fantasy/phantomtollbooth.htm) cannot be forgotten. And, since I was only 9 years old when my father took my brother and I to see the Philadelphia premiere weekend showing of it, I guess I must add in [2001:A Space Odyssey](http://www.filmsite.org/twot.html) They just don’t make movies like that any more…god, I’m old. :rolleyes: Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/5 "2002-04-29T12:28:51Z")
I used to love[Rock and Rule](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086203'), which my local cable provider played incessantly (along with Superman: The Movie). It’s an animated, futuristic, post-Apocalyptic music video-type thing with sort of “proto-furries” as characters. It’s not available on tape or DVD, so I haven’t actually seen it in about fifteen years and I suspect I wouldn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I did when I was ten. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/6 "2002-04-29T12:35:23Z")
Ray Harryhausen’s **The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad**. Arguably his best film, it gave us the first good Cyclops and a real fire-breathing dragon in “Dynamation/Dynarama” (Harryhausen’s name for his method of mixing his stop-motion effects with his actors) and gaudy color. Imitated lots of times since (startting with the much paler **Jack the Giant Killer** , which went so far as to steal the same actors and director), but never as successfully. Like a good Disney pary ride, it succeeded by taking itself seriously. Good Stuff. Now that I have it on DVD, I’ve corrupted my daughter with it. (It came out in 1959. Even though I didn’t see it on its first run, I’m clearly a _lot_ older than you kids. Heck, **Labyrinth** came out when I was in my _second_ grad school!) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/7 "2002-04-29T12:50:34Z")
I’d say the movie I remember and loved the best from my childhood was **Dr. Strangelove**. I do remember leaving the theater (I was twelve at the time) thinking it was the best movie I’d ever seen. Others were OK, but nothing impressed me as much as that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/8 "2002-04-29T13:35:51Z")
My favorite childhood movie is Disney’s animated **The Jungle Book** , which is also the first movie I remember watching at a theater. I’m too young to have seen it first run so it must have been a re-release. Yes, I have seen it a few times since then and it still makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/9 "2002-04-29T14:07:18Z")
[The Point](http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Point%2C+The+%281971%29) ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/10 "2002-04-29T14:09:35Z")
Let’s see, child of the late 60’s/early 70’s so: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Escape from Witch Mountain ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/11 "2002-04-29T14:43:42Z")
Child of the late 70s/early 80s: Parent Trap (the ORIGINAL with Haley Mills as the twins) Summer Magic (another Haley Mills movie) Goonies E.T. Wizard of Oz ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/12 "2002-04-29T14:44:53Z")
My two favorites have already been mentioned - **Escape from Witch Mountain** and **Chitty Chitty Bang Bang**. **Star Wars** came out when I was 9 so I suppose that counts too, but it just doesn’t have the same magical impact in my mind as the other two. I also loved **Sleeping Beauty** and **Peter Pan** , but somehow I don’t think I actually saw the movies. I had a Viewmaster with those slides, and books. Remember back before cable and VCRs, when you had to actually see movies on TV or in the theater? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/13 "2002-04-29T14:45:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > \*\*I used to love[Rock and Rule](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086203), which my local cable provider played incessantly (along with Superman: The Movie). > > It’s an animated, futuristic, post-Apocalyptic music video-type thing with sort of “proto-furries” as characters. It’s not available on tape or DVD, so I haven’t actually seen it in about fifteen years and I suspect I wouldn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I did when I was ten. \*\* I didn’t see it until I was 20 (my friend hunted down some pirate copy on e-Bay after hearing that one of the characters shared her rather unusual name), but I still quite enjoyed it. I even started a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=101999) about it a while back. It’s not by any means a great movie, but it was certainly interesting and entertaining – and Mok is the _best villain ever_. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/14 "2002-04-29T15:25:50Z")
**The Snow Queen** by Hans Christian Anderson. This movie was shown on TV once a year when I was little girl and I cried every time I watched it. Kay and Gerda :sniff: I’ve heard that Disney will be re-making it. They better not screw it up. 😉 Honey ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/15 "2002-04-29T16:48:07Z")
**Escape to Witch Mountain** and **Toby Tyler** were probably my favorites. Of course there was the Shirley Temple movies. I must have seen almost all of them. ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/16 "2002-04-29T19:30:16Z")
**An American Tail** (otherwise known as “the Fievel movie”) I loved that when I was little and I still love it, though I haven’t seen it in a while. Disney never plays it any more. jessica ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/17 "2002-04-29T20:07:51Z")
**JessEnigma** , that might be because it was not produced or released by Disney. [An American Tail](http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/243929) was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Steven Spielberg, and released by Universal Pictures in 1986. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/18 "2002-04-29T22:53:30Z")
Whaaaaat? No votes for **The Muppet Movie**? _The Rainbow Connection_ used to give me that happy-but-slightly-sick-to-the-stomach-and-hairs-standing-up-on-the-back-of-the-neck-feeling that occurs so seldom in my life these days (except when listening to Shostakovich or Grieg…) “Aah, a bear in his natural habitat. A Studebaker.” “Aurora Borealis, shinin’ down to Dallas, cantchoo picture that!” …and there was a line about Rolf the Dog taking himself for a walk… Besides, just imagine how long Kermit had to train to ride a bicycle! ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/19 "2002-04-29T23:11:18Z")
**Time Bandits**. **Dark Crystal** , definitely. **E.T.**. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Teerious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Miss\_Teerious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Teerious)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254/20 "2002-04-29T23:23:09Z")
Does anyone else remember _The Brave Little Toaster_? That was my fave when I was little (b. 1981). I could still watch it today, it was so great. Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman both did voices for it. But I seem to be the only person I know who remembers it. Best Movie Ever. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-childhood-movie/106254.md?page=2)