![]() ![]() They will probably laugh at how people in the past imagined the future to be – but I hope they love it as much as I did. If not, here’s the more upbeat There Are No Cats In America instead.Īdmittedly, I’ll be waiting until my children are a few years older before I show this one, as even though it’s a PG, there’s quite a bit of violence and unsavoury language in it. Even thinking of little Fievel getting lost, and he and his sister singing Somewhere Out There in those squeaky little voices as they hope to find each other, brings tears to my eyes. I loved this story of Fievel Mousekewitz as he and his family moved from Russia to America in search of freedom. Are there any you would add to my list?ĭo your children enjoy any of the films you used to as a child? I’d love to know what you think, either in the comments below, on the Cardiff Mummy Says Facebook page, or you can tweet me on might also like: 50 children’s TV show theme tunes from my 1980s childhoodĮven as a child this film made me cry, so I know I’ll have no hope now I’m a mum and my emotions are even more heightened than they ever were. Films which, now I have my own children, deserve to be watched again.Īnd so here, in alphabetical order, are 22 films from the 1980s that I want my own children to watch before they leave primary school aged 11. Films that were absolute classics back then films with classic one-liners which have become part of the national lingo films which might look dated compared to today’s special effects but which were groundbreaking for their time. It got me thinking about all the brilliant films that were such a big part of my 1980s childhood. And so I told her about Labyrinth and The Goonies and An American Tail and so many more besides. “Okay then Mummy, what were your favourite films when you were little?” she asked me. “It didn’t exist when I was a little girl,” I told her to much bemusement. ![]() There is something weird going on in “Epic,” and I’m not even talking about the film’s heavily-borrowed-from- “The Secret World of Arrietty” plot.Little Miss E asked me recently if I liked watching Frozen when I was a little girl. Opting out of any free will or choice of their own? Hmm. ![]() Listening to everything their parents say? Alright. ![]() But what the film “Epic” does so, so wrong is murk up its messages, deliver so many dictums one after another that it’s hard to keep track of everything kids should be doing after seeing this movie. But the plot feels so uncreative and familiar, and the animation so uneven, and the narrative so expected, that ‘Epic’ doesn’t really feel very monumentous at all.Ĭhildren’s animated movies are so often about sending a message to their viewers, and of course that makes sense-educating while entertaining is a noble-enough ideal. The latest children’s animated film ‘Epic’ clearly, and desperately, wants to be exactly the kind of movie its name suggests. Also a kiss and thematic material including some characters’ passed-away parents. There were definitely some screams and crying from younger children at a recent press screening. The PG rating is mostly because of the film’s scary imagery, which includes miniature-sized monstrous beings that resemble ogres with battle armor made out of skeletons, battles between those beings and the humanoid figures, and some decay, destruction, dead things, and characters that die. ![]()
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