they aren't movies, but Doctor Who is a fantastic show for the whole family. maybe start at Matt Smith episodes unless they don't mind cheesier effects and costumes.
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The princess bride
Depending on the age, but if they are still not truly able to follow complex storylines and conversations, you could really get away with anything that isn't scary, sexual or violent.
My parents watched Friends all the time, I didn't understand half of it but it was fun to watch as kid.
My father got into serious trouble with my mom when my little brother was two because of Blazing Saddles. My mom had taken me somewhere, and my brother was in the playroom playing with blocks. Dad figured it was safe to watch Blazing Saddles, as little bro wasn't able to see the TV, and he could see little bro.
A few days later, little bro walks up to my mother and casually called her a "tonic bitch," and wandered off.
Needless to say Mel Brooks was banned in our house for a few years, but we all loved it when we were allowed to watch it. Spaceballs as well.
The Gods Must Be Crazy had me in stitches as a kid.
My son love Rocky horror picture show. We skip the big sex scene in the middle.
I hope you eventually reach him about the audience script. I wouldn't take him to a live showing till highschool though.
I would recommend polterghast as a nice PG* horror movie.
*it came out before pg-13 existed.
Fuck all that. 5th-grade me didn't sleep for two weeks behind that seeing that shit in the theater.
Police Academy
The Mask of Zorro (1998, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones)
The Tenth Kingdom
Police Academy: sex and voyeur jokes
Mask of Zorro: suicide of brother, head in jar:
Don't know. Depends on age of kids.
The Princess Bride. It's got fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...
And it seems like it could be from a ttrpg session. Very amusing!
The Aventures of Baron Von Munchausen is fine for kids.
Yes there's some tasteful nudity, but if I'm being real it's less than any of us are comfortable with in the home.
Uma Thurman as Venus, no less.
Maybe they'd like some of the kids cartoons I enjoy as an adult or when I was in high school?
Dexter's Lab, Ed Edd and Eddy, Power Puff Girls, 2 Stupid Dogs, Home Movies, Dr. Katz., Invader Zim, Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy, Hey Arnold, Rocko's Modern Life, Phineas and Ferb, Daria, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Regular Show, and Adventure Time.
Ooh hey, my teenage cartoons!
*checks year of release
Okay, where's that meme about getting run over by the old age truck?
Edit: I'm gonna add CatDog, Angry Beavers, Jimmy Neutron, and Johnny Bravo from around the same era. Also, how could we forget SpongeBob?
My kids and I watched a lot of Futurama.
Grave of the Fireflies will fix that. They'll yearn for Bluey.
It's one of my favourite movies that i never want to see again
Star Wars: Clone wars, Bad Batch, and Rebels.
All animated, very much not cutesy little kid stuff. War, trauma, death, PTSD for soldiers, all of it. Its also something special to watch a sith lord murder their way out of a ship using nothing but the force.
Edit: oh, movies, my bad. Hmm, thats a little trickier for me.
Young kids: The Iron Giant, Princess Bride, and if shows count, Adventure Time and Avatar
Teenagers: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
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