Clean movies for preteen?

bigsis144

Sun, Jul 06 2014, 10:31 pm

Back to the science-y side of things...

DS loves the Walking with Dinosaurs videos with Nigel Marven. Thanks to some pretty spiffy CGI and practical effects, it's like watching "The Crocodile Hunter" if he had a time machine and was studying prehistoric creatures. Like other wildlife documentaries, a bit of blood and suspense when predatory creatures are around, but nothing truly scary.

Links:
The Giant Claw (full episode, half hour long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOLZELWHjtE
Land of Giants ("): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJQAZGnstg
Sea Monsters (part 1 of 3, links to parts 2 & 3 are easily accessible from related videos sidebar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MissoCefH-w

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I'm assuming if you've seen all the recent Disney movies, you've seen Dreamworks stuff too. How about How to Train Your Dragon? The animation and the music are breathtaking. I wish I'd seen this in a theater, I'm sure it literally would have taken my breath away. (I haven't seen the sequel yet, so no spoilers!)

Other good Dreamworks movies (I don't like all of them... they tend to be more risque and chutzpadik than Disney films) are Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2.

rachel91

Mon, Jul 07 2014, 8:08 am

sequoia wrote:

Too bad. Soviet films for children are awesome -- totally clean (of course) and with great life lessons. And often funny.

Not only the ones for children, the adult movies are also great!

rachel91

Mon, Jul 07 2014, 8:11 am

pumpernickle wrote:

I also loved princess diaries 1 and 2... Fond memories!
Sisterhood of the traveling pants
Chasing liberty
Home alone
Black stalion
Polyanna
The secret garden
Heidi
Shirley temple

Yes! Princess Diaries 1 and 2 are my favorites!

debsey

Mon, Jul 07 2014, 2:08 pm

The Princess Bride!!!! Geeked out choice but so much fun. The Flight of the Navigator - it's an old 80s sci-fi flick about a boy who is kindnapped by aliens and returned to the wrong time zone and has to persuade the aliens to send him back to the right time.
The Neverending Story.
I also second the Zir Chemed, Rachel's Place and other Jewish videos. If she's a visual learner, as you say, you don't want her absorbing TOO many of her life lessons from the creative minds of Hollywood. That's why I love the American Girl videos - because the messages are quite positive and clean. But if you start watching too many movies, you start unconsciously mirroring those attitudes.
Aviva Productions in Israel also has many books-on-tape - she might enjoy those, if reading is not her "thing."
debs

bigsis144

Mon, Jul 07 2014, 2:13 pm

Wanna see bigsis144 as a young'un (it boggles my mind that we shot this 10 years ago as of this summer)?
Watch Kol Neshama's A Light for Greytowers!
http://www.jewishvideos.com/a-......html

amother

Mon, Jul 07 2014, 4:53 pm

sequoia wrote:

Too bad. Soviet films for children are awesome -- totally clean (of course) and with great life lessons. And often funny.

I also recommend them. DH and I watch them all the time, and we don't have children yet! Maybe we're a bit like kids...

rachel91

Mon, Jul 07 2014, 4:56 pm

amother wrote:

I also recommend them. DH and I watch them all the time, and we don't have children yet! Maybe we're a bit like kids...

Don't worry, It's called 'remembering our childhood'.