How To Train Your Dragon 2

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If you have kids the TV show is decent as well. Not great, but they have most of the voice cast from the movie show up in the same parts.

[LoathedVermin72]

The only memorably good animated kids' movies I've seen from the last five years are Fantastic Mr. Fox and ParaNorman. Should I actually give these a shot?

Watch "Mary and Max" if you haven't already. A stunning Australian animated film (beautiful claymation) with a wonderful performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Though I guess that probably wouldn't count as a "kids' movie".

Yeah I've seen it and like it a lot. But yeah, definitely not a kids' movie.

[LoathedVermin72]

The only memorably good animated kids' movies I've seen from the last five years are Fantastic Mr. Fox and ParaNorman. Should I actually give these a shot?

You and I dont share a ton of similar movie interest, but of all the things I have watched since I had kids, I have found this the infinitely most enjoyable. Even more than the pixar stuff. So many kids movies require "Wink-Wink" moments to keep the parents engaged, be it through double entendre or op culture references. This doesn't. It's basically a straight ahead fairy tale that relies on the genuine affection they build in their main characters. And I think visually it is very well done as well.

I think you just sold me. That post-modern, self-referential crap is perhaps the biggest problem with contemporary kids' movies.

[@SkitchP]

Watching it again tonight