Children's movies: animated ones are best?

[mtbc]

I was thinking about the children's movies that I think are actually rather good: ones that bear rewatching and are worth keeping on DVD. Those that come to my mind, such as Coraline (2009), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) and Wall-E (2008), are all animated. When I try to think of live-action movies I've seen since having children myself I come up a bit short in terms of ones to which I'd actually be happy to pay full attention again: I can't off-hand think of anything much better than the Harry Potter movies which are okay but hardly special and entrancing. Perhaps this says more about me than it does children, but I am struck by how the children's movies I like the most are all animated.

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[mindstalk]

Hmm. The movies I've seen with Friendkids, and what they get from their grandparents, are pretty much all animated too, for a wide variety of 'animation'.