The next few months promise to be full of exciting trips to the cinema as you check out the best kids movies. (Image credit: Top left: www.tiff.net, bottom right: Pan Facebook)
Moms and dads, long weekends and the holidays are right around the corner, and there are several terrific films hitting the cinemas around the same time. We have sifted through all the offerings to find the best kids movies for the perfect family outing to the cinema over the next few months.
1. Inside Out
This Disney Pixar movie has already wowed critics and audiences who are all hailing it as the best kids movie on emotions ever! This animated film tells the story of 11-year old hockey-playing girl, Riley, whose world is turned upside down when she moves from midwestern America to San Francisco with her parent.
Take your little ones to watch how her emotions — Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness and Fear — try to guide her through her roller coaster life. It is a touching tale about how emotions help a child navigate his or her world. And you know what, it tells us that it is ok to be sad sometimes, too.
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Opens 19 August 2015
Rating: PG
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2. The Maze Runners: Scorch Trials
Did you enjoy the Maze Runner as much as your young one did? Then you both are absolutely going to not want to miss out on this next chapter of the epic “Maze Runner” saga. In this edition, Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: In their quest to take down the mysterious and powerful organisation WCKD, they find themselves in Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. You’ll have to watch this to find out whether the Gladers succeed in taking down WCKD’s vastly superior forces.
Opens 9 September 2015
Rating: PG-13
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3. Hotel Transylvania 2
Sony Pictures is back with Dracula! And this time he is secretly worried that his half human, half vampire grandson isn’t showing his vampire side. So what does he do? Put him in a “monsters-in-training’ boot camp of course. But he is in for a bit of surprise when his own grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad pays a family visit to the hotel. Because when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood – and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania – Dracula’s plans go flying out of the window – coffins and all!
Opens 23 September 2015
Rating: PG
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4. Pan
Hands up, who does not love Peter Pan? No one, yep that seems about right. Watch his story come alive in this wonderful retelling of the orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny — to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.
Opens 8 October 2015
Rating: Not rated
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From good old animated fun to inter galactic adventures, there is a whole load of cinematic fun ahead. (Image credit: Top left onwards: www.peanutsmovie.com, www.jemthemovie.com, The Good Dinosaur Facebook, Star Wars Episode 7 – The Force Awakens Facebook
5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
It is now time for an all-out revolution which will determine the future of millions. Join Katniss Everdeen as she teams up with her closest friends, including Peeta, Gale and Finnick in a mission that goes beyond survival. Together, they leave District 13 to liberate the citizens of war-torn Panem and assassinate President Snow, who’s obsessed with destroying Katniss. What lies ahead is the ultimate mission – the fight against the autocratic Capitol.
Opens 19 November 2015
Rating: PG-13
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6. The Good Dinosaur
Another Disney Pixar offering, this is a tale of an unlikely friendship between a young Apatosaurus named Arlo and a human boy. The Good Dinosaur begins with the premise that the asteroid that crashed into earth and led to the extinction of dinosaurs, actually missed the Earth completely. In a world still inhabited by these mega creatures, this is the story of little Arlo’s coming of age. Accompany Arlo as he travels through a harsh and mysterious landscape, and learns the power of confronting his fears to discover what he is truly capable of.
Opens 25 November 2015
Rating: PG
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7. The Peanuts Movie
One word – Classic! That is what this movie is, and we can say that even before we have seen it. Mums and dads, you know what this movie lets you do – it lets you relive your childhood with your kids! Take them to watch your favourite childhood comic characters, Snoopy and the gang as they set sail on his greatest mission yet — to pursue the gang’s arch-nemesis, while Charlie Brown starts his own epic quest back home.
Opens 8 January 2016
Rating: G
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8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens VII
This one is actually for you mums and dads. This is totally your chance to convert your little ones into sworn Trekkies. Come December and the force will be with you! Set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode IV – Return of the Jedi, the saga continues with Luke Skywalker aiming to restore the Jedi Order while Leia and Han Solo work with the New Republic against the remnants of the Galactic Empire and a new potential threat.
Opens 17 December 2015
Rating: PG-13
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