Christmas Films For Kids

I'm looking for suggestions for films to watch with my kids this Christmas, mainly my boys who are nearly 6 and 8 years old.

We were thinking of watching a film each evening, the week leading up to Christmas, so which films should we watch?

Ideas of films you loved as a kid, oldies or new films, cartoon or not, doesn't matter, any suggestion is welcome!

I'll go with the obvious, but Home Alone is a must Loved it so much when I was a kid.

Rango
Toy Story 1, 2 & 3
Cars 1 & 2
Transformers (Cartoon movie)
Transformers (movies)
Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2
Star Wars Trilogy (episodes 4,5 & 6!!)
Santa Claus (Old Dudley Moore movie)
Elf
Ice Age trilogy
The Princess Bride
Raiders Of The Lost Ark/ Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade(still my two favourite films out of the four of them)
Ghostbusters 1 & 2

There's some to get you started.

Santa Claus The Movie.
A Christmas Story.


Oh and the best Xmas movie of all time, Die Hard...although not suitable for kids.

One Christmas film I really enjoyed as a kid was The Santa Clause with Tim Allen. One film I saw a few years back was The Polar Express which I thought was actually quite good. The Muppet's Christmas Carol is really good as well. Anyone of any age can enjoy that.

Rango
Toy Story 1, 2 & 3
Cars 1 & 2
Transformers (Cartoon movie)
Transformers (movies)
Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2
Star Wars Trilogy (episodes 4,5 & 6!!)
Santa Claus (Old Dudley Moore movie)
Elf
Ice Age trilogy
The Princess Bride
Raiders Of The Lost Ark/ Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade(still my two favourite films out of the four of them)
Ghostbusters 1 & 2

There's some to get you started.

Absolutely! Two of my favourite films ever.  An absolute pleasure for anyone of any age. Truly great film making.

I should have said that they've already seen loads!

Definitely going for Star Wars this year, wife has been making me hold off previous years, but this time they're watching it!

We're going to go with Lord of the Rings (first one) as well, and Home Alone, like Diego said.

They've seen most of the rest of your list, Pete, as well as the Pole Express (cracking film, enjoyed it myself).

I was hoping there'd be some others I'd forgotten. They've also seen The Goonies, before someone suggests it! Looking back, bloody hell, they've seen tons of films already!

Absolutely! Two of my favourite films ever.  An absolute pleasure for anyone of any age. Truly great film making.

It was only when I tried watching the first one with the kids, I found it a bit violent for them, and I'm not usually overly fussy.

A scene near the start where a bloke gets impaled on some spikes was pretty grim, we ended up turning it off after a while, try again in a couple of years.

That said, my oldest has already had nightmares about the Gremlins! That was one film that never scared me as a kid, I was surprised.

Oh and the best Xmas movie of all time, Die Hard...although not suitable for kids.

Can't wait until they're old enough to watch great films like that!

Looking forward to sitting down and watching them discover Alien, Terminator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, classics like that!

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory.

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory.

Great film (the original, of course), but we already own it!

To get your neurones working, I'll offer plus votes for the best and most original suggestions!

Ice Age 1, 2 and 3.

Hilarious the lot of them

I thought we were talking about thematic films - I mean, one that have Christmas in the story line, not just good films to watch this time of the year

Well, one film for kids I absolutely loved when younger and still watch when it's on tv is Hook. Dustin Hoffman is Captain Hook, Julia Roberts and Robin Williams (Peter Pan) are also on it.

I thought we were talking about thematic films - I mean, one that have Christmas in the story line, not just good films to watch this time of the year

Well, one film for kids I absolutely loved when younger and still watch when it's on tv is Hook. Dustin Hoffman is Captain Hook, Julia Roberts and Robin Williams (Peter Pan) are also on it.

I see what you mean, but it wasn't necessarily films that happen at Christmas, just brilliant films for kids. Hook is a good one, but I think I enjoyed it more than them!

Neverending Story - I think we must have watched that one a million times! Sure my oldest lad was in love with the princess, but how long did it take for them to understand the lead character was a boy and not a girl!

Flight of the Navigator.
(Loved that as a kid.)

Kung Fu Panda 2.
Cars 2.

Ghostbusters.
Scrooged. Maybe not.

Flight of the Navigator.

Great one, but I think I'm running out of options as I've put them through that as well!

Scrooged. Maybe not.

Had the exact same thought!

Maybe...? Hmm, maybe not!

In Malaysia, they always play Home Alone 1 and 2 without fail.

My lad's 3 at the moment his favourites are:

Cat in the hat.

Underdog.

The Incredibles.

The Incredibles.

Don't even bother with Disneys, I think we own most of the collection.

Princess Bride and Elf they haven't seen, might be worth a go.

Anyone know if Willow and Labyrinth are suitable? I haven't seen them in donkey's years, don't even remember if they're decent.

Dark Crystal.
Jim Henson movie.
Although along with Labyrinth is a bit dark.

Dark Crystal.
Jim Henson movie.
Although along with Labyrinth is a bit dark.

Interesting, I vaguely remember it.

I'll look into these, thanks again for the help!

Prince Caspian
Shrek
How to Train Your Dragon
Old Yellow
Short Circuit
Sinbad
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Beauty and the Beast
Surfs Up
ET
Mary Poppins
Sound of Music
The Rescuers
Wallace and Grommet and the case of the Ware Rabbit
George of the Jungle
Hoodwinked
Chicken Run
A Bugs Life
Wizard of Oz
Iron Giant
Home Alone
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Matilda
Aladin
Harry Potter
Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat
Ice Age
Wall E
Madagascar
Kung Fu Panda
Prince of Egypt
Monsters Inc
Peter Pan
Shrek
Time Bandits
Dumbo
The Incredibles
Karate Kid
Lion the Witch and the Wadrobe
Lion King
Toy Story
Finding Nemo

Prince Caspian
Shrek
How to Train Your Dragon
Old Yellow
Short Circuit
Sinbad
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Beauty and the Beast
Surfs Up
ET
Mary Poppins
Sound of Music
The Rescuers
Wallace and Grommet and the case of the Ware Rabbit
George of the Jungle
Hoodwinked
Chicken Run
A Bugs Life
Wizard of Oz
Iron Giant
Home Alone
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Matilda
Aladin
Harry Potter
Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat
Ice Age
Wall E
Madagascar
Kung Fu Panda
Prince of Egypt
Monsters Inc
Peter Pan
Shrek
Time Bandits
Dumbo
The Incredibles
Karate Kid
Lion the Witch and the Wadrobe
Lion King
Toy Story
Finding Nemo

Seen all those!

No, I'll have a look at that list, already noticed a couple of interesting ones!

No bother.