Kids Movies Guide: School Holidays |
Best movies for the kids the summer school holidays
It's action, comedy and excitement central these school holidays, with a supersonically awesome program of family-friendly films.
Check out the best films for kids and kidults ..
Movies
Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up
PG
2024
91 mins
Porky and Daffy turn into unlikely heroes when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Against all odds, the two are determined to save their town and the world... that is if they don't drive each other crazy in the process.
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Disney's Snow White
PG
2025
109 mins
Disney
Rachel Zegler (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) is Snow White to Gal Gadot's Evil Queen in this live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney animated classic, directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) and co-written by Greta Gerwig (Barbie).
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The Lost Tiger
G
2025
82 mins
A hero looks to earn his stripes in this family-friendly "Aussie-mation." Features the voices of Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords), Celeste Barber (Runt), and Thomas Weatherall (Heartbreak High).
Teo is a plucky young tiger and one of the last of his kind. Found abandoned and wearing a mysterious crystal necklace, he is adopted into a big, boisterous kangaroo family of travelling wrestlers. After receiving visions from an unfamiliar land, Teo must suddenly embark on an epic quest to reconnect with his heritage and save his homeland from the clutches of destruction.
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Paddington in Peru
PG
2024
106 mins
The third film in the series follows Paddington and the Brown family as they visit Aunt Lucy in Peru, but a mystery sends them to the Amazon rainforest and up Peruvian mountains.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
PG
2024
109 mins
Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and director Jeff Fowler return for the third film in the family-friendly adventure film series, based on the beloved SEGA videogames. This time around, the team square off against Shadow the Hedgehog, voiced by the one and only Keanu Reeves.Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and director Jeff Fowler return for the third film in the family-friendly adventure film series, based on the beloved SEGA videogames. This time around, the team square off against Shadow the Hedgehog, voiced by the one and only Keanu Reeves.
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Mufasa: The Lion King
PG
2024
118 mins
Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his footsteps while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored in this follow-up to the 2019 blockbuster, this time directed by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight).
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
PG
2024
79 mins
Gromit's growing concern that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions is justified when he invents a "smart gnome" that seems to develop a mind of its own. As events spiral out of control, it falls to Gromit to put aside his qualms and battle sinister forces - or Wallace may never be able to invent again.
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Wicked
PG
2024
160 mins
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in this adaptation of the massive Broadway musical, a prequel to cinema classic The Wizard of Oz. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Elphaba (Erivo), a defiant girl born with green skin, and Glinda (Grande), a privileged aristocrat born popular, become unlikely friends in the magical Land of Oz. As they struggle with their opposing personalities, their friendship is tested as both begin to fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West.
From director Jon M Chu's (In the Heights), this is part one of a two-parter - the second film is due for release in 2025.
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Antarctica (2021)
PG
2021
45 mins
BBC IMAX short documentary, narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Antarctica is the most extreme continent on our planet-higher, colder, and even drier than any other on Earth, and although it is thousands of miles away, what happens here affects every single one of us.
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My Neighbour Totoro
G
1988
86 mins
Family adventure from the godfather of Japanese animation Hayao Miyazaki, following two young girls who befriend an enormous cat-bear creature sleeping in a nearby forest.
With their ill mother in hospital, 10-year-old Satsuki (Dakota) and her younger sister Mei (Elle) live with their father in their new rural home. One day, Mei notices an odd little creature retreating into the woods. When she gives chase, she eventually stumbles upon a massive harmless beast, which she names Totoro. Eventually convincing her sister of the adorable creature's existence, they explore the world with magical wonder via a flying cat bus.
Sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning provide the English voiceover for the two respective siblings.
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Return to Oz
PG
1985
113 mins
Disney's 1985 follow-up to the classic Wizard of Oz sees young Dorothy (this time played by Fairuza Balk) return to the fantastical land after escaping a mental institution. With her wise-cracking chicken by her side, Dorothy runs into new friends as well as a new problem: everyone in Oz has been turned to stone.
Upon witnessing what has become of The Emerald City, Dorothy runs into Tik-Tok, a wind-up metal soldier who agrees to help the young lass restore Oz to its former glory. Running into Jack Pumpkinhead, who mistakes Dorothy for his mother, and Gump, a living Moose head attached to a makeshift flying contraption, the ragtag group journey to the Nome King's lair while avoiding Queen Mombi and her vicious minions - The Wheelers.
Made 46 years after The Wizard of Oz, the film was mentioned in The Guinness Book of World Records as the sequel that was made the longest period of time after the original.
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Pip and Posy's Cinema Show
2022
53 min
Pip and Posy's first ever cinema show comes with seven episodes, interactive games and a singalong.
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