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they ve seen stone monkey and quite like hard grit, but i m thinking more along the lines of toy story, just lacking imagination tonight and want to order some dvds for the hols, we dont have many already (just ordered toy story box set, ice age box set) any ideas ?

In reply to mike123: Labrynth, Dark Crystal, Ulysses 31 box set, Princess bride, 9 (its not old, but it's amazing), The Storyteller box-set.

I'm a bit slow tonight. I'm sure I'll think of more

In reply to mike123: Watership Down?

In reply to stujamo: Combine that with "when the wind blows" for a truly depressing evening in with the kids.

In reply to mike123: The Goonies, Back to the future, Feivel goes west (feivel, fival, fa??), The rats of nymn, Hook, Batteries not included, Beatlejuice, BFG, BIG

In reply to mike123: lady and the tramp

In reply to tspoon1981: Hahahahaha! I liked it! Ok,how about "Dennis"? :O)

In reply to stujamo: I have a horrible memory of reading When the wind blows, then watching Watership down on VHS. My childhood world fell apart, and I don't believe I ever truly recovered.

In reply to mike123:

What age are they?

Things that have gone down well with mine (3&6) are Madagascar, anything Scooby Doo (but particularly the feature length films - more the cartoon ones than the more recent movies until recently), Dennis the Menace.

And Star Wars, and Top Gear specials!

I'll have a look what else they've got when I get this one to sleep and can escape downstairs....

In reply to tspoon1981:
the Navigator, Neverending Story, Mighty Joe Young, Legend, Time Bandits, the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, the Last Starfighter, BMX Bandits, the Black Cauldron, Willow, Uncle Buck, James and the Giant Peach, and lastly, and of the Muppet movies.

In reply to mike123: The Disney version of Robin Hood is excellent for kids.

In reply to mike123: Zulu, Carry On Up The Khyber.

Old, classic, suitable.

T.

In reply to mike123:

Shrek, Cars/Cars 2, Monsters Inc. And Alvin and the Chipmunks, which I find much more annoying than any of the others, so I'd give that a miss!

In reply to mike123:

What age are the kids?

Laputa The Flying Island is a good one (arguably ANY Miyazaki would do, but that one is by far the most accessible)

In reply to mike123:

Obscure and rather older than any mentioned thus far (not that this is a competition - it just happens to be a real favourite of mine!):

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T

Especially if they are taking piano lessons

In reply to tspoon1981: Just misread your post,and thought watership down was a HVS somewhere........

In reply to crustypunkuk: Second your list apart from the muppets,did you mean flight of the navigator?

In reply to stujamo:

I'd hope so given that The Navigator is an arty film from Vincent Ward about some medieval Cumbrians who fall through time into 1980s New Zealand!

In reply to mike123:
Wizard of Oz
Goonies
Never Ending Story
Legend
Rocky Horror Picture Show....

In reply to mike123:

I say KRULL!

In reply to mike123: how about:
The Railway Children
Home Alone
Uncle Buck
Not for very young children but for say 9/10 year olds pretty good

In reply to mike123:

Charlie and Chocolate Factory... (original)

In reply to Blue Straggler: Krull is ace,

In reply to mike123:


Born Free
Ring of Bright Water
Thomasina the Cat

Thunderbirds are Go! (Fab)
Dr Who and the Daleks (Peter Cushing)
Swallows and Amazons

Plus look up the "Dragon's Friendly Society" and get the complete Noggin the Nog series

In reply to mike123: And if they're approaching that 'difficult high school time' (re. shitty comprehensive),The Breakfast Club

In reply to mike123:

Laputa - castles in the sky
My neighbour Totoro
Kiki's delivery service
Whisper of the Heart

How to train your Dragon
Lion, witch and the Wardrobe, Prince caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Alice in Wonderland, Thunder cats, Battle of the planets, goonies, Who framed Roger rabbit?, ET, WALL-E, Wizard of Oz, where the wild things are, The Gruffalo, Stardust, Princess bride, Gremlins 1 and 2, Grease

All depends on the age of the children really. =)

In reply to mike123:
Holes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/holes/

In reply to mike123:

A Bugs Life
Chicken Run

In reply to mike123:

The last starfighter

Flight of The Navigator

Seabiscuit

dumb and dumber

My kids enjoyed Castaway

Teh princess bride

Big

Original TRON

Rabbit proof fence

Galaxy Quest

he incredible Journey

The great outdoors ( in fact nealy all of John Candy's work)

D.A.R.Y.L

A christmas story

The dark crystal

my kids love The longest Day too

and A bridge too far

The secrets of Nimh

i enjoyed rediscovering many of these as the kids did

In reply to stujamo: Yeah, just googled to check, and you're right.
It's been a while since i've seen it!

In reply to mike123:
The American remake of "Les Visiteurs". Still starring the coolest bloke on the planet.

In reply to mike123: Muppets Take Manhattan.

Most Ghibli stuff (Except Grave of the Fireflies!!) would go down well. My nieces and nephew particularly love My Neighbour Totoro.

In reply to mike123: The red balloon
youtube.com/watch?v=oQhvgo62l74&

In reply to mike123: Close Encounters.

And not Watership Down. Great film and story but not for the sensitive child. Mine won't watch it because of what they have heard from their friends. I watched it about 50 times as a child, perhaps explians why I'm mental now.

Fox and hounds and Sword in the stone were my favourite disneys and ended up buying them on VHS whilst in uni.

I'd steer clear of watership down, krull and pinocchio at a young age, think these films are going to send me to counselling at some point.

In reply to mike123:

How about Gremlins?

Night at the Museum?

Pirates of the Caribbean?

In reply to mike123: How about the 'Flight of the Navigator'?

In reply to mike123:

Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Bagpuss
Escape to Witch Mountain

Actually, throw in a carry-out of beer and some crisps and that is a pretty good evening for me!

In reply to mike123: How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Love it.

I own it and don't even HAVE any kids.

In reply to mike123: petes dragon, short circuit, ghostbusters (age depending) I saw it at the cinema aged about 8 though

In reply to Wonko The Sane: on the jim carey theme, ace ventura 1 & 2 are/ were hilarious

In reply to fxceltic:

One of my kids used to crack up to Norman Wisdom films. Make of that what you will.

In reply to mike123: Maid Marian and her merry men, The box set is available on fleabay

In reply to MHutch: is your child Moldovan?

In reply to mike123:
Did anyone say Chitty Chitty bang Bang or mary Poppins ?

In reply to fxceltic:

Seems that way sometimes.

In reply to mike123:

There's nowt wrong with the Wis, I loved Will Hay, Norman Wisdom and Stanley Baxter films when I was a lad in the early 80s.

In reply to mike123: thanks to all for suggestions, have got bids on several of the above on fleabay, finally getting the hang of planning ahead for family holidays .

In reply to mike123:

Buster Keaton films

In reply to stujamo:

Watership Down is a VS at Gogarth, but I bet nobody except me and Geoff Milburn have ever done it

In reply to A Game of Chance: Has anybody mentioned 'Bambi' or 'Dumbo' yet?

In reply to Al Evans: When I was a kid 'The Gold Rush' with Charlie Chaplain , I found it so funny that my dad had to keep pulling me from under the seats I was laughing that much. THe scene where he stuck two poatoes on the end of forks and got them to dance was memorable, as was him being followed by the bear. Ah! but life and films were much simpler then.

In reply to MHutch:

I used to like Abbott & Costello, and Jerry Lewis, when I was a kid!