Category: Family

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2010s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Kubo and the Two Strings is the fourth, and arguably the best, of the big screen releases from the Oregon-based, mainly stop-motion animation studio, LAIKA Entertainment. It’s the first to be directed by that company’s...

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2010s / Animation / Comedy / Family

The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

Upon first glance, The Secret Life of Pets would seem like a take-off on Pixar’s Toy Story series, using pets instead of toys to show the world of individual hobbies and collective adventures the characters would go in...

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2010s / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy

The BFG (2016)

Set in London, a clever but unhappy, insomnia-afflicted orphan named Sophie (Barnhill, “4 O’Clock Club”) wakes up in the middle of the evening and sees something outside the orphanage window. Investigating, she discovers a...

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2010s / Adventure / Animation / Family

The Good Dinosaur (2015)

Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened had the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are...

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2010s / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy

Inside Out (2015)

Many Pixar fans, while loyal through superfluous and underwhelming sequels, have been anxiously awaiting their favorite animation studio to go back to the kind of ingenious and original films that have taken family animation...

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1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Cinderella (1950)

Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...

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2010s / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Paddington (2014)

From the appearance of the terrible pratfall-filled trailer, Paddington would appear like one of those anthropomorphic misfires in the vein of Kangaroo Jack or Yogi Bear. The film had some dubious press in the late days of its production...

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2010s / Comedy / Family / Musical

Annie (2014)

Annie is 2014’s updating of the 1982 musical directed by John Huston, which itself had been based on the Broadway musical adaptation of the Harold Gray comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie”, but with more glitz and modern...