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Recommend Me A Movie! (with 2 stipulations)
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I'm looking for more movies for my son, who's almost 2. He's watching the first act of Wall-E right now (right this moment) and for the first time outside of educational televesion, he seems to be gleening the ideas and concepts out of it. In short he's understanding the story and from his reactions fidning it exciting. It's growing pride in this understanding and being intrigued by it -one of my first movies was Star Wars- that I'm searching google unsuccessfully to try to find something else for him.
So if anyone out can recommend something with the follow stipulations, I appreciate it:
I think the reason why he gets Wall-E so much (and why he can pay attention) is because it uses a bare minimum of dialog. So I'm looking for movies without much of that. But since language isn't important, that means foreign movies are fair game!
Plus it's gotta be a kids movie (duh), and I don't really mean it has to exclude all themes one might need a higher understanding to comprehend. Mom's and Dad's can have babies, people can endure pain, maybe get hurt, done right, maybe pass away, etc. etc. but, I want it to be fun for him so its totally fine if it isn't mature as long as he understands it and gets something out of it.
I hope you guys got something for me. Thanks in advance.
Almost 3 years later:
So if anyone out can recommend something with the follow stipulations, I appreciate it:
I think the reason why he gets Wall-E so much (and why he can pay attention) is because it uses a bare minimum of dialog. So I'm looking for movies without much of that. But since language isn't important, that means foreign movies are fair game!
Plus it's gotta be a kids movie (duh), and I don't really mean it has to exclude all themes one might need a higher understanding to comprehend. Mom's and Dad's can have babies, people can endure pain, maybe get hurt, done right, maybe pass away, etc. etc. but, I want it to be fun for him so its totally fine if it isn't mature as long as he understands it and gets something out of it.
I hope you guys got something for me. Thanks in advance.
Almost 3 years later:
I necro'd the SHIT outta this post.
BLAZZOW!
So my son is FIVE now. Heres my current list, which has changed from what I want him to watch now to what I think he should watch as he grows older. These range from stuff thats okay now to stuff thats certainly not okay now but just keeping track of great things (such as Robocop).
Explorers
TRON
Indiana Jones Tril
Goonies
Last Starfighter
Flight of the Navigator
Galaxy Quest
Gremlins 1& 2
Beetlejuice
Ghostbusters
Neverending Story
Monster Squad
Willow
Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
Princess Bride
Wargames
Short Circuit 1 & 2
Little Monsters
Back to the Future tril
Fifth Element
Additions: Studio Ghibli films, Iron Giant, DISNEY films, PIXAR ALL THE THINGS, Star Wars, The Sandlot, Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton's Batman, The Secret of Nihm, E.T., DARYL, Flash Gordon, The Hobbit, Wallace and Gromit (anything by those guys), Babe, Gojira series, King Kong, Karate Kid, Surf Ninjas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Pagemaster, Harry Potter series, Space Jam, Jumanji
Additions for when he's a little older: Space Balls, Naked Gun, Superman, Jurassic Park, Stand by Me, Three Amigos, The Matrix tril (I know some of my original list fits into this)
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
You sure you didn't mean Kung Fu Panda?
Not that there's anything wrong with KFH (though it wasn't my cup of tea), but I'm not sure how engrossing it'd be to a 2 year old.
I don't think a 2 year old would get that
Kung Fu Hustle?
Did you people read the thread? His son is TWO!
Go get the rest of the Pixar movies. Finding Nemo is a favorite as are the Toy Stories. Also try pet movies like Milo and Otis and Homeward Bound.
Star Wars and LOTR type stuff is best kept for 4 or 5.
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it's the story of a wild stallion struggling in the old west as human expansion tames his surroundings.
a little narration from the "main character" horse, and some humans talk to each other, but the main characters, true to their nature as horses are mute.
My Neighbor Totoro was my favorite when I was a kid, I highly recommend trying that one first. Disney released it on dvd not too long ago so shouldn't be too hard to find.
Yeah, I was going to recommend them too.
On the more feature length side, Fantasia although even as a kid some of that stuff creeps me out. Might also be worth looking at Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which although it has more dialogue, it's still a very visual film. (although, Hefalumps and Woozles may give you nightmares, or a longing for some acid!).
I think Finding Nemo is pretty dialog-dependent, but it is colorful and beautiful, so you can probably get away with any movie that is similarly colorful and beautiful and he'll enjoy it.
Also try the Shrek movies.
Yeah, I'd recommend that, too. No dialog. Very old-fashioned and innocent. There's no reason it has to be just a Christmas movie.
The Iron Giant.
seriously though the harry potters, teenage mutan ninja turles, karate kid.
In fact, as a three year old child myself, I watched this movie over and over - literally hundreds of times, so my parents tell me. After around age four though, I didn't watch it again. By the time I was 22, I had no recollection of the film, save a couple vague images. So, when it came on one of our HD channels, I DVR'd it and planned an evening to watch it alone.
I was awestruck and weeping from the very first sequence. I was flooded with emotions, and though I didn't recognize the scenes, I can only conclude that the movie fired up those old neural pathways and connections that had been established as a child by hundreds of viewings. If I was accurately recalling how I felt as a child when originally watching the film, than as a child I felt in stark wonder of a world that, though I didn't fully understand it, was filled with a deep, vibrant beauty -- and it was obviously such an enjoyable experience for my childhood mind that it wanted to experience it again and again and again.
Anyway, if your kid liked WALL-E, I think he'd love E.T.
Keep em coming?
edit: clearly for a 2 year old get the dubbed version
haha, the fanning sisters do the voices which is whacky
and is a pretty good dub
the one from 2006
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I'm still creeped out by those big plastic medical enclosures. The suggestion about Wallace and Gromit is a great idea.
Entertainingly, the original plan was to have absolutely no dialogue.
And then the sequels added singing.
All Dogs go to Heaven might be a good fit. The scariest bits are toward the end, and they're over pretty quickly.
Definitely this. Though The Iron Giant might be one to wait a few years for, because good god some parts of it are sad.
No...not for a 2 year old, not for a 4 or 5 year old. I doubt I'd let my 7 year old watch LoTR but she IS a wusser. If she has nightmares about HEARING about Dobby the Elf, I doubt the orcs or Gollum would go down well.
Of course, almost EVERY disney movie has some sort of scary element to it so.......good luck.
This is a tricky one...no good answer I suppose. You're child will let you know pretty quickly what they like or dislike.
I'd leave the human / realistic CG movies until 5+ as kids can often find animated things funny / cute / un-scary but can find the simplest "realistic" things frightening (my wife was terrified of Ewoks, true story).
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Certainly The Sorcerer's Apprentice is awesome, but I think a 2-year-old might find Night on Bald Mountain just a little too intense. If you make sure to pick and choose which segment you show (which means you're going to have to supervise the movie), it could nevertheless be a good choice.
Similiarly, Fantasia 2000 has a lot of good stuff (Carnival of the Animals, for one - how can you not like a flamingo with a yo-yo?), but it has it's own "Bald Mountain" in the Firebird Suite.
I was going to mention this. The Wrong Trousers and A Grand Day Out, in particular should appeal to the very young. A Close Shave is excellent, but slightly more reliant on dialogue to figure out what's going on. Curse of the Were-Rabbit is also glorious, but again has a fair helping of dialogue, and also might be a bit scary in parts.
Also true? I was scared of Yoda.
I was not expecting so many responses, thank you all.
I dont think anyone suggested them.
This, absolutely this. And My Neighbour Totoro.
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