10. Monsters, Inc (2001)
The movie: James “Sully” and his assistant Mike are the best-performing team at Monsters Incorporated, the 🍒largest scream factory in Monstropolis. Every night, they sneak through wardrobe doors into kids’ bedrooms and harvest their screams for precious energy. However, everything changes when little girl Boo snඣeaks into the monster world, causing considerable mayhem and a whole lot of reevaluating whether humans really are as scary as they are made out to be.
Why the family will love it: A film about acceptance, positiv𒆙ity, and finding creative and constructive solutions to your problems, Monsters, Inc is also an abꦆsolute riot from start to finish, with gags for both kids and grown-ups around every corner. Bonus: There might not be a more fitting casting decision in cinema history than Billy Crystal as the voice of hapless Mike Wazowski.
9. Aladdin (1992)
The movie: Resourceful ‘street rat’ Aladdin lives day-to-day with his monkey, Abu, stealing food while dreaming of the high life inside the palace walls. At the same time, Princess Jasmine feels suffocated by the pressure to find a suitable partner and dreams of freedom. Th꧅anks to the plotting vizier Jafar, who has his eye on Jasmine, a magical lamp inhabited by a powerful genie and a spiralling game of deceit, the two suddenly find their fates intertwined in a musical adventure.
7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The movie: Young Kansas girl Dorothy suffers an accident and finds herself transported to a magical technic෴olour world fil🌺led with exotic and whimsical characters, many of whom share characteristics with her family and friends. A shimmering emerald city on the horizon could hold the answers to all her questions, and, if she's lucky, show her the way back to Kansas...
Why the family will love it: The Wizard of Oz will likely to e🅰licit the same sense of wondꦺer to a kid born in this last decade as it did when it came out. You can bring every generation of your family together for this one, and follow that yellow-brick road down memory lane.
4. The Incredibles (2004)
The movie: Bob and Helen Parr have three children and live in a nondescript suburb. Bob works in insurance and Helen is a dutiful housewife. However, they have a secret past: they used to be the superheroes Mr Incr💮edible and Elastigirl, fighting baddies and saving the world on a weekly basis before superheroes were banned and forced to go into hiding. Bob, nostalgic for his past glory, sees an opportunity to don the supersuit again, but this time it puts his whole family in danger.
Why the family will love it: Along with the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises of the early-noughties, The Incredibles ignited a fire in children’s hearts around the world, and that fire is being stoked and nurtured still today by several superhero films every year. The Incredibles riffs perfectly on ‘60s💟 spy movies for a stylish, adrenaline-filled adventure. And if you’re worried it might be ‘scary’ for tiny tots, take it from this writer: yours truly’s son has watched this and Incredibles 2 approximat🐈ely once a week since well before his third birthday, still without a single resulting night terror.
3. My Neighbour Totoro
The movie: Hayao Miyazaki’s beautiful adventure My Neighbour Totoro follows schoolgirl Satsuke and her younger sister, Mei, as they move to an old country house with their father while their mother recovers from illness at a hospital some distance away. As the sisters ♕explore their new home, they encounter playful spirits in their house and the nearby forest. One of those is the mysterious, silent and very, very cuddly giant creature Totoro. That’s it, that’s the film. And it’s perfect that way.
Why the family will love it: It doesn’t matter if you’re six, 15 or 50 years old. When you watch My Neighbour Totoro, you will become a six-year-old in your heart. No film captures the carefree spirit of childhood and the wonder and imagination of playing and running around qꦅuite like this one. And with Totoro himself and Neko the catbus joining the adventure, My Neighbour Totoro is simply one of the purest, most life-affirming pieces of cinema ever made.
2. The Lion King (1994)
The movie: Young lion cub Simba will one day take over his father Mufasa’s kingdom. However, Simba’s uncle Scar has his eye on the throne, and in a vicious game of deceit, Mufasa is killed and Simba blamed for his father’s death. Little Simba flees the kingdom and finds friendship in the happy-💎go-lucky Timon and Pumbaa. In his absence, the kingdom crumbles into despair, but when Simba’s childhood friend Nala finds him by accident, he’ll have to decide w🗹hether to continue his carefree life or return, clear his name and save his father’s kingdom.
Why the family will love it: While the 2019 remake might showcase a visually technical achieveme꧙nt, it pales in comparison t🐬o the original Disney version when it comes to storytelling, emotion and pure sense of adventure. Not afraid to feature darkness and loss, The Lion King plays with the heart strings of both children and adults in an epic drama that is sure to leave a lasting impression.
1. Toy Story 2 (1999)
The movie: A couple of years after the events of the first Toy Story, Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear have formed a solid friendship. But when Woody is stolen from his home by toy dealer Al from Al’s Toy Barn infamy, the gang of toys goes on a desperate search-and-rescue mission, led by Buzz. However, when Woody discovers he's actually a valuable collectable from a once-popular television show called "Woody's Rou𝓡ndup" and is reunited with his horse Bullseye, cowgirl Jessie, and his sidekick, Stinky Pete the Prospector, he starts to doubt whether he wants to be saved after ♍all.
Why the family will love it: It was hard to choose just one Toy Story film for this list, because any of the first three could stake a claim for this top spot. However, the second one gets the spot on the strength of its emotion and world-building that takes the fantastic first entry and expands it perfectly. Toy Story has become a cultural staple of the western world, the characters and their values taking on a mythological qu𓄧ality, all while presenting wondrously colourful stories that both children and parents can immediately relate to. Who hasn’t built a rich world of imagination with their toys, taking them on adventures, living through dramas, even finding solace in their play during times of sadness or struggle? Toy Story (any of them) and its characters perfectly embody the inner child in any of us, whether we’re an adventurous, sometimes overzealous Buzz, an organised Sheriff Woody who wants everything to stay as it is, a loving but hardy and resourceful Bo Peep, or a grumpy Potatohead. Family movie night will always have a friend in Toy Story.
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