Favourite children's movies
These are not animated, but they were my favorite movies as a kid. They aren't the ultra-fluffy fair that almost every kids movie ends up being these days.
THE NEVERENDING STORY
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088323/
Parts 2 and 3 were utter crap in my opinion, just trying to make money off the popularity of the original and not offering anything in the way of plot or chatacters. I watched this one dozens of times as a kid and loved it every time. A couple brief scary scenes.
THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GAN
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089385/
A girl goes on a journey to find her dad who had to leave to go to a logging camp, and befriends a wolf along the way. Set in the 1930s and fairly gritty. A couple brief scary scenes.
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/
A boy finds himself in control of a high-tech spaceship with a sense of humour. The plot is very complex for a kids movie, involving time travel and moral dillemas, quite well done. Many funny scenes, such as stopping to as for directions at a gas station.
MATILDA
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117008/
This one is quite modern, but a nice rendition of a classic Roald Dahl story. It is about a girl with special mental powers who is underappreciated by her parents and ends up in a school with a mean Headmistress. A couple brief scary scenes.
LABYRINTH
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/
This film features the amazing puppetry of Jim Henson, with dozens of memorable and unique characters. A girl goes on a mission to rescue her baby brother from the Goblin King (played by a very funny David Bowie). Lots of silly puppets, musical scores and creative sets. A couple brief scary scenes.
THE EXPLORERS
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/
Some kids build a spaceship in their back yard and explore space. Quite a goofy movie.
If your kids are young you might need to wait a couple years for the ones I marked as having brief scary scenes, but I have never met a child that can't get into these films. =)
G'day,
- raven morris