It’s vague if they are okay with animated films intended for adults, so…
Titan AE, Iron Giant, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Rocketeer, Indiana Jones, Star Wars IV thru VI
The Rocketeer is a solid suggestion.
Indiana Jones was my first thought. Just have them close their eyes during the arc face-melting part
And the heart ripping scene. I looked away as a kid but I was still disturbed.
Galaxy Quest… while not a great movie, it’s a fun movie.
Excuse, me, what the fuck!? Galaxy quest managed to be one of the best Star Trek flicks out there while not even being in the same universe. By Grabthar’s Hammer, YOU…SHALL…. APOLOGIZE!
It’s not a great movie, it’s superb!
Yeah, what he said. Not a great movie? Are you nuts. I just can’t…
The Rocky Horror Picture Show springs to mind.
Robin Hood (Prince of Thieves, Men in Tights, etc.)
V for Vendetta.
Fight Club.
The Patriot
Braveheart
Lots of Spielberg directed stuff fits here I think like close encounters, Indiana Jones, Jaws
The blues brothers I remember was a lot of fun & don’t recall anything that stands out as too adult. tons of music, violence is not very serious
mst3k/rifftrax take a lot of old cheap movies and have comedians joke over the movie’s audio, I think most of it is pretty pg-13 stuff but not pandering to kids
Some Coen brothers/Ethan Coen movies like O brother where art thou and raising Arizona, true grit, add a bit more complexity to stories over kids movies, but keep the violence not too scary
If it wasn’t for a few f bombs the Blue Brothers could have been rated PG. And maybe the used condom joke at the very beginning.
Family friendly / older fare. Labyrinth, goonies, princess bride, frighteners, galaxy quest, original clash of the titans, fifth element, back to the future etc etc.
The human centipede
It’s basically a live-action version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
is everybody making suggestions in here a millennial? or is there really no examples of family-friendly films from the last 10-20 years?
Suggestions already in this thread from the last 10-20 years:
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
- Flow (2024)
- Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
- Nova Seed (2016)
- Interstellar (2014)
- The Martian (2015)
- Into the Spiderverse (2018)
- Across the Spiderverse (2023)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
The Iron Giant
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.
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.
Lord of the Rings! Ditto for most of the YA film adoptions from the last twenty years
The only thing I can think of is Midnight Gospel, if your kid doesn’t mind the quick-talking podcast interview going on in the background. But the animation is great. 😃
ETA: Oops you said no animation. I’m sorry!
The only thing my mind could come up with that isn’t animated would be The Ring. I personally have the original Japanese version, so I have no clue how good or bad the western version is, though.
