Family-Oriented Comedy Cinema
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| 1. A Charlie Brown Christmas Cinema (Year: 1965) |
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As incredible as it seems, CBS head man James Aubrey originally vetoed his network's presentation of the animated A Charlie Brown Christmas on the gro ...
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| 2. A Christmas Story Cinema (Year: 1983) |
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Nine years after the Yuletide slasher flick Black Christmas, Porky's director Bob Clark once again took on the holiday genre, switching from gasps to ...
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| 3. A Dennis the Menace Christmas Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Dennis the Menace Christmas is a live action holiday tale featuring the popular cartoon character and his annoyed neighbor Mr. Wilson. As the season a ...
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| 4. A Goofy Movie Cinema (Year: 1995) |
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This animated Disney feature is based on a popular afternoon television show. The story centers on Goofy's teenage son, Max, who is terrified that he ...
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| 5. A Simple Wish Cinema (Year: 1997) |
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This comic children's fantasy from director Michael Ritchie stars Mara Wilson as eight-year-old New Yorker Anabel, who wishes that her father Oliver ( ...
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| 6. Air Bud Spikes Back Cinema (Year: 2003) |
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Mike Southon's Air Bud Spikes Back brings the gifted athlete and golden retriever Buddy back for more action. Buddy excels at the sport of beach volle ...
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| 7. Alvin and the Chipmunks Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are back in director Tim Hill's computer-animation/live-action hybrid following the further adventures of the world's most ...
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| 8. Asterix at the Olympic Games Cinema (Year: 2008) |
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Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's internationally popular cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix take on the world of athletics in this live-action com ...
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| 9. Baby's Day Out Cinema (Year: 1994) |
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John Hughes sticks to his seemingly fool-proof formula for success in Baby's Day Out, a cross-pollination of Home Alone and a Swee' Pea cartoon. The p ...
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| 10. Bee Movie Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee college and being virtually ...
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| 12. Big Fat Liar Cinema (Year: 2002) |
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Former co-stars of the TV sitcom Head of the Class teamed up to write the story and script for this teen comedy. When junior high-school student Jason ...
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| 13. Blackbeard's Ghost Cinema (Year: 1968) |
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Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Ea ...
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| 14. Blank Check Cinema (Year: 1994) |
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This low-rent Disney comedy mines the Home Alone territory for labored laughs. Brian Bonsall stars as the eleven-year-old Preston Waters, who is low-k ...
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| 15. Cadet Kelly Cinema (Year: 2002) |
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Two of the Disney Channel's brightest young sitcom stars, Hilary Duff (Lizzie Maguire) and Christy Romano (Even Stevens), team up for laughs and tears ...
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| 16. Cars Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy ...
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| 17. Casper Cinema (Year: 1995) |
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Based on the popular cartoon character, this family-oriented "ghost story" is about a not-so-scary spirit who bonds with a little girl (Chri ...
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| 18. Chicken Little Cinema (Year: 2005) |
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An old fable gets a high-tech update in this computer-animated comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Chicken Little (voice of Zach Braff) is an earnest yo ...
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| 19. Clifford Cinema (Year: 1994) |
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Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another l ...
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| 20. College Road Trip Cinema (Year: 2008) |
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A high-school student (Raven Symone) with noble dreams of becoming a public defender sets out to visit potential universities in the unwanted company ...
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| 21. Daddy Day Camp Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Directed by one-time child star Fred Savage, Daddy Day Camp, the sequel to Eddie Murphy's Daddy Day Care, stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Paul Rae as Charl ...
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| 22. Elf Cinema (Year: 2003) |
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For his sophomore stab at directing, actor/writer/director Jon Favreau (Swingers, Made), took on this holiday comedy starring Saturday Night Live-alum ...
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| 23. Eloise at the Plaza Cinema (Year: 2003) |
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Created by author/entertainer Kay Thompson in 1955, precocious six-year-old Eloise, who lived in the Plaza Hotel with her long-suffering nanny, her do ...
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| 24. Enchanted Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Classic Disney animation meets contemporary urban chaos when a frightened princess is banished from her magical animated homeland to modern-day New Yo ...
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| 25. Ernest Goes to Camp Cinema (Year: 1987) |
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Ernest (Jim Varney) gets a job as a fix-it man at a summer camp for troubled boys, but what he really wants to be is a counselor. This juvenile comedy ...
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| 26. Ernest in the Army Cinema (Year: 1998) |
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The U.S. Army's most unlikely soldier, Ernest P. Worrel (Jim Varney), finds himself responsible for saving the world when he and his troopmates are se ...
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| 27. Ernest Scared Stupid Cinema (Year: 1991) |
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Ernest (Jim Varney) gets into deep trouble when he decides to build a treehouse for the neighborhood kid and accidentally digs up an ugly, evil-temper ...
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| 29. Garfield Gets Real Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Garfield, the mischievous cat with the deadpan delivery, is less than satisfied with the 2-D constraints of the cartoon world. As fortune would have i ...
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| 30. Happy Feet Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a pengu ...
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| 32. Home Alone Cinema (Year: 1990) |
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Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his ...
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| 33. Home Alone 3 Cinema (Year: 1997) |
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For the third film in this series, Alex D. Linz replaced Macaulay Culkin as the central figure. Four industrial spies acquire a missile guidance-syste ...
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| 34. La Guerre des Boutons Cinema (Year: 1962) |
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In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with the victors claiming the b ...
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| 35. Like Mike Cinema (Year: 2002) |
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Pint-size rap music star Lil Bow Wow shows that he can play ball as well as he raps in this youth-oriented comedy about a young boy whose dream comes ...
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| 36. Madagascar Cinema (Year: 2005) |
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A pack of not-so-wild animals experience some serious culture shock when they move from the Big Apple to the Mighty Jungle in this computer-animated c ...
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| 37. Mail to the Chief Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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The fun begins when Kenny Witowski, a typical middle school student, begins seeking out e-mail pals on the Internet. Thanks to a glitch in the system, ...
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| 38. Muppet Treasure Island Cinema (Year: 1996) |
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Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young orphan who becomes involved with pirate Long John Silver is given the Muppet treatment in this vibran ...
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| 39. Muppets from Space Cinema (Year: 1999) |
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At long last, the secret of just what the Great Gonzo happens to be is revealed! As Gonzo and his friend Rizzo hit the road in search of their roots, ...
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| 40. Mystery Men Cinema (Year: 1999) |
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Can seven not-so-superheroes save a city of the future? Based on the comic book series created by Bob Burden, Mystery Men is set in the teeming metrop ...
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| 41. Over the Hedge Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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A group of feisty forest critters awaken following the winter freeze to discover that not only has a new neighborhood cropped up during the cold month ...
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| 42. Paulie Cinema (Year: 1998) |
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In the Babe tradition of talking animatronic animals, this comedy adventure gets underway when animal-research-lab janitor Misha (Tony Shalhoub) expre ...
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| 43. Ratatouille Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine F ...
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| 44. Return to Halloweentown Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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On the eve of Halloweetown's 1000th anniversary celebration, Witch University student Marnie Piper (Sara Paxton) must enlist the aid of two close frie ...
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| 45. Richie Rich Cinema (Year: 1994) |
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A purposely outlandish cartoon created in 1953, Harvey Comics hero Richie Rich finally came to the big screen in 1994, when a boy billionaire was not ...
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| 46. RV Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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A white-collar workaholic deceptively persuades his family to forgo their much-anticipated Hawaiian vacation for a cross-country road trip in a fully ...
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| 47. Small Soldiers Cinema (Year: 1998) |
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Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry fi ...
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| 48. Space Jam Cinema (Year: 1996) |
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Warner Bros. attempted to revitalize its animation division with this family adventure that blended live action and animation in the style of Who Fram ...
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| 49. Spencer's Mountain Cinema (Year: 1963) |
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons, Spencer's Mountain sure has a lo ...
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| 50. Stuart Little Cinema (Year: 1999) |
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E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors ...
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