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Alan Brody

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I have 5 and 6 year old boys. I've enjoyed watching DVDs that I like with them. Watching my 6 year old struggle with the idea of sacrifice in Armageddon was very special. ("Dad, if you were on that asteroid, you'd tell them that you have boys at home and you can't draw a straw, wouldn't you?" The next time we watched: "If it's to save everyone in the world, you might have to draw a straw, Dad.")
I was a big fan of treating the kids like adults until they decide that shirt, darn, and Christmas (the orginal words, not the ones put here for the censors) were OK because Harry says them. I have so far failed to keep the language up to my wife's standards. Violence is a problem as well. For a while we need to watch DVDs more designed for kids.
Iron Giant is great, Dark Crystal is great, Bug's Life and Antz are OK.
What suggestions do you have?
Thanks in advance,
Alan

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If they like the circus, get the Cirque du Soleil videos. TAFKA Steve 14:40:03 08/03/00 (0)
But please try to take them to one of the live shows, too.
Re: DVDs for kids and adults Johnny 10:49:35 08/03/00 (0)
My kids love Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The music is great and is very colorful.
Re: DVDs for kids and adults TG 16:34:42 08/01/00 (0)
Hi Alan,
A few older films they probably have not have seen (and which you may secretly enjoy viewing again). Many of these may only be on video:
Fantasia
Dr Doolittle
The Star Wars Trilogy
Gulliver's Travels
Jason & the Argonauts
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
any of Harryhausen's "Sinbad" movies
The Jungle Book (cartoon and/or film)
Mary Poppins
101 Dalmations
The Princess Bride
Robin Hood
The Sea Hawk
Short Circuit
The Last Starfighter
and all those great black & white Hollywood movies you loved when you were a kid - especially anything based on historical characters or famous books. It doesn't matter if the history is not accurate, or the adaption is not precise - hopefully that will just encourage them to read the original.
Cheers, hope some of this is of help
TG
Re: DVDs for kids and adults Rich Jura 09:20:38 08/01/00 (0)
Check out "Blast from the Past"

"George of the Jungle"
"Princess Bride"
"Flight of the Navigator"
"Never Ending Story"

Rich
Re: DVDs for kids and adults TAFKA Steve 16:02:15 07/31/00 (1)
"Babe", "Mystery Men", and "October Sky". Would also recommend "A Little Princess", but only if you have little girls. They'd probably also like "Weird Al Yankovic: The Videos". For some reason, my cousin's two young boys love "Life Is Beautiful" and collapsed into laughter when Benigni is "translating" the German into Italian game-playing for his son.
- Re: DVDs for kids and adults Johann E 02:00:55 08/05/00 (0)
  When I was a kid, my parents took me to see movies like Planet of the Apes and James Bond movies.
  I think that scarred me for life.
  
  So I d say, avoid weird sci-fi movies and bizarre spy thrillers. If you'd like your kids to remain celibate later on in life, you could try a whole host of R rated movies. "Boogie Nights" is pretty traumatizing...
  But for a balanced diet of adult interest and fun for kids movies,
  I'd recommend "The Mask"(okay, half recommend the Mask, weird flick, man...), "Forrest Gump", and
  "Frequency".

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