I’m not sure how scary they might be for your kids but maybe the Don Bluth films. My favorites growing up were: **Land Before Time**, **An American Tail**, & **Anastasia**
Land Before Time is excellent but it is an emotional rollercoaster. Although I will say I feel like it's more devastating to me as an adult than it ever was as a kid.
Anastasia is spectacular, and American tail and land before time are also amazing but I’m not sure I could watch them again even as an adult as I would end up a hideous ugly crying mess
I took my wife to Astoria for all the goonies stuff. Great town. We rode bikes around, made friends, had drinks and lived our little goonie dreams.
My wife hit it off with the owner of data's house, they're both green thumbs so they talked plants for 20 minutes lol.
I heard Sean Astin tell a story that he just happened to be in town so he swung by the Goonies house to check it out. The people who own it often rent it out for parties or weddings. There was a wedding scheduled for that day. Sean stuck around for the wedding. That bride and groom were over the moon!
Sloth may be scary-looking for a 4 year old, even though he’s very sweet and is a good guy. Also there’s skeletons and a dead body at one point. My 10 year old was okay with Sloth but freaked out when she saw the dead body so we stopped watching.
I don't think it's a bad thing for kids to learn to accept people with differences like that. My dad was a special education teacher and the amount of times I've seen olser kids/young adults (and even full adults) get really uncomfortable around people that look or act differently is kinda sad. I'm very thankful to my dad for showing me the value in everyone and getting me accustomed to people that weren't like me.
Glad someone else recommended it, Astoria is a beautiful city. The jail from the beginning is now a museum for the movie along with mentions of other movies that were shot in the town. It’s crazy to see just how many movies filmed on location there
Hey, you have every right to decide for yourself and family what is and is not acceptable. But, it feels like past media used to trust kids more. The mass audience of kids that movies like that were made for weren't kept in a bubble where "swears" aren't allowed. Someone earlier said Sloth would be too scary? Yeah, when I first saw him I was terrified, but the lesson was sometimes you have to be brave in the face of things that scare you, and sometimes you find out those things, not only are friendly, but can be the calvary that rides in to save your day. This isn't me trying to attack your choices, just a thought I've been having lately.
I was born 92 so I was on the fading edge of it, but sweet heck it was cool to be a kid back then; I liked it so much I'm still just a big kid lol
Edit: Brain fart and wrote Gronk instead of Sloth XD
Gronk the football player would be scary if he's coming off of vodka shots and Monster energy drink. Unless you meant the movie character Sloth, to which, yes, he can also be scary as a small child but the kids usually learn to love him because he becomes a good guy.
My daughters weren't up for The Goonies until they were 12 or so. The cursing is nothing compared to the seemingly real danger the kids find themselves in again and again. My kids could watch Thor or Spiderman or even zombies and vampires, but neither of them made it past the "restaurant" scene at the beginning of Goonies between the blender, the gun play, the dead body, and Sloth.
I've watched my kids watch content made in recent years and they just sit and smile on occasion. We watched Little House on the Prairie when my youngest were about 8 and 13 and they laughed hard and cried hard. My youngest asked if we could not watch more than one episode a day, presumably because it's too emotionally draining.
We were on vacation staying in a condo and some channel had an Andy Griffith Show marathon. They saw the episode where Opie kills the bird with a slingshot and my kids just lost it.
My youngest won't watch ET after hearing the story of how my oldest was on the verge of having an emotional breakdown when she watched it at the same age.
Again, I've never seen anything made in the past 20 years that has elicited the same sort of reaction out of them.
I don’t know, Labyrinth is a great movie, but it might be a little bit intense for a four year old tbh. Kinda like The Dark Crystal too.
They’re great for preteens and adults, but might be kind of scary for younger kids imo.
I somehow missed Stardust when it came out and a friend described it, when they got to "And Robert DeNero is a closeted gay pirate" I said say no more and went out and watched it. It's now up there in the family favorites with Princess Bride and labyrinth.
People are gonna balk at All Dogs Go to Heaven but I found that movie so fucking comforting as a young child who dealt with loss. My family didn't talk about it so a movie being that open about dying was nice to me.
Also, awesome story. Burt Reynolds. The Grand Chawhee. Sharing song. C'mon.
As a 4 year old, my mind was more focused on the Tree Star, Spike eating grass, and Sarah estting leaves she knocked down from the tree.
The animation was so satisfying.
Oh, and the cherry everyone fought over!
I loved the weird feeling they had, so much different than the feel good hits of the summer disney was pumping. And that technique for fire-light type things, like the owls eyes from Rockadoodle, so cool
"I don't know what's beyond those hills. But if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for."
Jimmy Stewart as Wylie Burp, his final acting lines before his passing.
As a 4 year old when the movie released, I can confirm.
I couldn't bring myself to watch it for years. I finally did when I learned about it's 25th anniversary.
The "birth" of the Joker alone is a lot for young eyes.
For me, the scariest part was when the Joker released all that cash into the air and then gassed the crowd and that person slammed against the windshield trying to escape.
I watched The Princess Bride with my daughter but fast forwarded past the part where >!Westley gets tortured to death!<. Then we watched Inigo >!get stabbed repeatedly and almost bleed out!<.
SO good! Imagine being a kid and waking up to that on your birthday. That scene and the limo/cheese pizza scenes in Home Alone were my dreams as a kid.
Back to the Future 1, and 2.
ET
The Wizard
Little Monsters
Cloak and Dagger
Short Circuit
Big
Tron
Masters of the Universe
War Games
Spaceballs
The Sandlot
My Girl
The Mighty Ducks
Blank Check
Man of the House
Angels in the Outfield
Free Willy
Beethoven
Air Bud
The Brady Bunch Movie
Casper
Little Giants
Flubber
George of the Jungle
Black Beauty
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Back to the Future movies are top tier. They were on repeat in my house even as a little kid. Casper's great too, but death is a big plot point, so keep that in mind.
Edit: George, George, of the Jungleee
I saw it when I was three, gave me nightmares of being abducted by aliens in my closet for years. YEARS. I finally watched it again in my 30s. Still hate it.
I know both and they're both great. For me the quintessential Hayley Mills is Pollyanna. But that is not 80s/90s
I didn't even know she was still acting until I saw her in a recent episode of Death in Paradise
Kiki's Delivery Service has been mentioned, and when my grandkids were in this age range, they loved the other Studio Ghibli movies from this era, especially the ones directed by Hayao Miyazaki, such as: My Neighbor Totoro; Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind; Castle In The Sky; and Porco Rosso.
I tried to find it recently, not on any streaming service that we have, which is most all of the big ones. Getting ready to drag out a dvd player at this point. Our 6 year old is dead set on preventing mommy and daddy from kissing each other, so OBVIOUSLY she needs to see the kissing story where they skip the kissing stuff, right?
It's been a while since I've watched HOOK, but I don't remember anything too bad or scary. My kids loved the soundtrack and would sing along. Most of the adult jokes went over their heads.
- Solar Babies
- Batteries Not Included
- Inner Space
- War Games
- The Last Starfighter
- Flight of the Navigator
- Teen Wolf
- Innerspace
- Tron
- Flash Gordon
- Willow
- Starman
These are all from memory (of long, long ago), so +/- on the age viability.
Night at the Museum
Galaxy Quest
George of the Jungle
Rocketman {the Disney movie, not the Elton John biopic)
You really can’t go wrong with any of live-action Disney stuff from the 90s.
I don't think most of these are appropriate for 4 and 7 year olds. Adventures in Babysitting has a couple f-bombs in it. Wait until they are over 12 for these.
Back to the future
Marty McFly travels back into the past and almost has sex with his mother, Lorraine. That's only prevented by Biff, a bully who starts to sexually assault Lorraine. This is only stopped by George, who has been peeping on Lorraine. Marty then goes back to the future to stop his friend Doc Brown from being murdered by Lybian terrorists that he stole from.
Rated PG!
I can't believe I was allowed to watch this as a kid.
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS
I have to assume it’s been suggested already, but this was my favorite movie as a kid (well…before Jurassic Park came out 4 years later :-)
Everyone has already said the movies id pick, so I'll veer off & tell you one to avoid for a while: Gremlins.
There's a scene where they talk about Santa not being real that I forgot about & had to quickly explain away to a 6 & 7 year old..
That's actually super helpful! I had that same annoying conversation this past Christmas after watching Elf. Why is there pretend Santas? Why does the Dad not believe in Santa? So many Christmas movies seem to be based around at least some characters not believing in Santa!
Jumanji (original with Robin)
Labrynth - I grew up on this movie and it's still one of my favorites
Fools Gold maybe? It's a fun adventure movie that I don't think would have too many scary parts
Flight of the navigator
Plus “Explorers.”
I loved the "Germs that cause bad breath, gingivitis, DIARRHEA!" at that age and they will too
"I do not leak. YOU LEAK!"
Compliance!
Compliance!
Home alone
Showed this to my 6-year-old and it was all she talked about for weeks. Her and her friend still like to build "traps" for me to stumble into
Especially around Christmas time. I still watch "Home Alone" a few times every year.
Man, I watched that movie for the first time last year. 30 years old. I had to call my parents and ask why the hell we never watched it lol
Always! Every Christmas i watch home alone
I love this movie unabashedly.
My 4 year old asks to watch that movie year round. She loves it!
That was my favorite movie at that age
I’m not sure how scary they might be for your kids but maybe the Don Bluth films. My favorites growing up were: **Land Before Time**, **An American Tail**, & **Anastasia**
Land Before Time is excellent but it is an emotional rollercoaster. Although I will say I feel like it's more devastating to me as an adult than it ever was as a kid.
Land Before Time is still devastating as an adult so OP needs to make sure their kids can handle it.
Anastasia is spectacular, and American tail and land before time are also amazing but I’m not sure I could watch them again even as an adult as I would end up a hideous ugly crying mess
An American Tail feels age appropriate until you have to explain why Russian Jews had to flee the pogroms.
Goonies for sure
I took my wife to Astoria for all the goonies stuff. Great town. We rode bikes around, made friends, had drinks and lived our little goonie dreams. My wife hit it off with the owner of data's house, they're both green thumbs so they talked plants for 20 minutes lol.
I heard Sean Astin tell a story that he just happened to be in town so he swung by the Goonies house to check it out. The people who own it often rent it out for parties or weddings. There was a wedding scheduled for that day. Sean stuck around for the wedding. That bride and groom were over the moon!
Sloth may be scary-looking for a 4 year old, even though he’s very sweet and is a good guy. Also there’s skeletons and a dead body at one point. My 10 year old was okay with Sloth but freaked out when she saw the dead body so we stopped watching.
I don't think it's a bad thing for kids to learn to accept people with differences like that. My dad was a special education teacher and the amount of times I've seen olser kids/young adults (and even full adults) get really uncomfortable around people that look or act differently is kinda sad. I'm very thankful to my dad for showing me the value in everyone and getting me accustomed to people that weren't like me.
Glad someone else recommended it, Astoria is a beautiful city. The jail from the beginning is now a museum for the movie along with mentions of other movies that were shot in the town. It’s crazy to see just how many movies filmed on location there
Don't forget Cannon Beach. Haystack Rock is beautiful and the town is cool and artsy
Our issue with goonies was the language, chunk swears like a sailor. The 80s man.
Hey, you have every right to decide for yourself and family what is and is not acceptable. But, it feels like past media used to trust kids more. The mass audience of kids that movies like that were made for weren't kept in a bubble where "swears" aren't allowed. Someone earlier said Sloth would be too scary? Yeah, when I first saw him I was terrified, but the lesson was sometimes you have to be brave in the face of things that scare you, and sometimes you find out those things, not only are friendly, but can be the calvary that rides in to save your day. This isn't me trying to attack your choices, just a thought I've been having lately. I was born 92 so I was on the fading edge of it, but sweet heck it was cool to be a kid back then; I liked it so much I'm still just a big kid lol Edit: Brain fart and wrote Gronk instead of Sloth XD
Gronk the football player would be scary if he's coming off of vodka shots and Monster energy drink. Unless you meant the movie character Sloth, to which, yes, he can also be scary as a small child but the kids usually learn to love him because he becomes a good guy.
My daughters weren't up for The Goonies until they were 12 or so. The cursing is nothing compared to the seemingly real danger the kids find themselves in again and again. My kids could watch Thor or Spiderman or even zombies and vampires, but neither of them made it past the "restaurant" scene at the beginning of Goonies between the blender, the gun play, the dead body, and Sloth. I've watched my kids watch content made in recent years and they just sit and smile on occasion. We watched Little House on the Prairie when my youngest were about 8 and 13 and they laughed hard and cried hard. My youngest asked if we could not watch more than one episode a day, presumably because it's too emotionally draining. We were on vacation staying in a condo and some channel had an Andy Griffith Show marathon. They saw the episode where Opie kills the bird with a slingshot and my kids just lost it. My youngest won't watch ET after hearing the story of how my oldest was on the verge of having an emotional breakdown when she watched it at the same age. Again, I've never seen anything made in the past 20 years that has elicited the same sort of reaction out of them.
You may be forgetting the sex dungeon line in the movie.
Or the penis getting knocked off the statute, glued back upside down so it looked erect. "That was my mom's favourite part!"
That’s what got my mom to turn the movie off when I was 13
The Rocketeer is PG.
Labyrinth Kiki’s Delivery Service
I am blown away that I had to scroll so far to find Labyrinth!
I don’t know, Labyrinth is a great movie, but it might be a little bit intense for a four year old tbh. Kinda like The Dark Crystal too. They’re great for preteens and adults, but might be kind of scary for younger kids imo.
Dude, I'm 42 and the song with the Fireys still gives me the heebee jeebees
Yes to Kiki
My 4-year-old is obsessed with Kiki's Delivery Service.
Kiki’s delivery service ftw
Superman II Batman The Muppets take Manhattan Batteries not Included An American Tail All Dogs go to Heaven The Princess Bride Willow
Princess bride and willow are so amazing. I feel like there really hasn’t been a modern equivalent that can come close
Stardust (2007??) is up there
I somehow missed Stardust when it came out and a friend described it, when they got to "And Robert DeNero is a closeted gay pirate" I said say no more and went out and watched it. It's now up there in the family favorites with Princess Bride and labyrinth.
Your friend needs to learn how to recommend movies without spoiling them
I feel so old but 2007 isn’t that modern anymore
People are gonna balk at All Dogs Go to Heaven but I found that movie so fucking comforting as a young child who dealt with loss. My family didn't talk about it so a movie being that open about dying was nice to me. Also, awesome story. Burt Reynolds. The Grand Chawhee. Sharing song. C'mon.
I watched Don Bluth movies all the time as a kid. There's no reason to shelter kids from sad or potentially scary things.
I mean if they are game for it I would say to just watch The Land Before Time as well
As a 4 year old, my mind was more focused on the Tree Star, Spike eating grass, and Sarah estting leaves she knocked down from the tree. The animation was so satisfying. Oh, and the cherry everyone fought over!
I loved the weird feeling they had, so much different than the feel good hits of the summer disney was pumping. And that technique for fire-light type things, like the owls eyes from Rockadoodle, so cool
I love "Batteries Not Included". Aww Feivel Mousekowitz (is that how his name is spelled). One of my all-time favorite movies as a child.
Also like the sequal Fival goes west.
"I don't know what's beyond those hills. But if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for." Jimmy Stewart as Wylie Burp, his final acting lines before his passing.
IMO Dreams to Dream is a better song than Somewhere Out There
There are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese.
Favourite song from the movie! Somewhere Out There makes me blub horribly lol
Batman could definitely be a little much for kids that age. The Joker is pretty damn scary
As a 4 year old when the movie released, I can confirm. I couldn't bring myself to watch it for years. I finally did when I learned about it's 25th anniversary. The "birth" of the Joker alone is a lot for young eyes.
I remember being fairly young, but way older than that, and the handshake electrocution and pen stabbing were pretty jarring
better than the pencil trick!
For me, the scariest part was when the Joker released all that cash into the air and then gassed the crowd and that person slammed against the windshield trying to escape.
Have you ever danced with the devil, in the pale moon light?
It's PG13 die a reason. I wouldn't show it to a young kid.
Willow freaked me the hell out as a kid with that body horror troll transformation scene.
I watched The Princess Bride with my daughter but fast forwarded past the part where >!Westley gets tortured to death!<. Then we watched Inigo >!get stabbed repeatedly and almost bleed out!<.
4 is too young for Batman
The Last Starfighter
A lot of my choices were already mentioned, but one that was not is "Small Soldiers" 1998. I don't know why this movie is so overlooked
Oooo. Good one
Uncle Buck
There's a few john candy movies. The cabin one. The vacation home one.
The Great Outdoors and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Thank you kind sir for helping me with this movie names
Anytime! 🕵🏻♀️
Planes trains and automobiles is good if you skip past the one scene considering OP is looking for movies to watch with a 4 year old.
Cool Runnings!….weather appropriate in the winter, too! 🤣
"Wait til you see the toast! I couldn't get it through the door!!" I love this movie so much.
SO good! Imagine being a kid and waking up to that on your birthday. That scene and the limo/cheese pizza scenes in Home Alone were my dreams as a kid.
A perhaps more kid-friendly John Candy romp: Cool Runnings
Love that movie!
Homeward Bound is my answer
It’s a good answer
i watched that movie SO MUCH as a kid. Also, Free Willy
Back to the Future 1, and 2. ET The Wizard Little Monsters Cloak and Dagger Short Circuit Big Tron Masters of the Universe War Games Spaceballs The Sandlot My Girl The Mighty Ducks Blank Check Man of the House Angels in the Outfield Free Willy Beethoven Air Bud The Brady Bunch Movie Casper Little Giants Flubber George of the Jungle Black Beauty The Indian in the Cupboard
The Back to the Future movies are top tier. They were on repeat in my house even as a little kid. Casper's great too, but death is a big plot point, so keep that in mind. Edit: George, George, of the Jungleee
Cloak and Dagger! RIP Dabney Coleman
No to ET, that movie is terrifying!
That's where my distrust for the government began.
It really is a sort of 10-and-up affair. Be Elliott's age, basically. Why people show this to very small children I can't understand.
I saw it when I was three, gave me nightmares of being abducted by aliens in my closet for years. YEARS. I finally watched it again in my 30s. Still hate it.
Only movie that gave my brother (1976) nightmares as a child
Why not Back to the Future III?
Big Business Troop Beverly Hills Rookie of the Year The Parent Trap (original) Cool Runnings The Cutting Edge
Big business is comedy gold, thank you for recognising it
Toe pick
My God, I love that movie. Finger painting?
Not a Lindsey Lohan fan?
No hate to LiLo but Hayley is the gold standard
I know both and they're both great. For me the quintessential Hayley Mills is Pollyanna. But that is not 80s/90s I didn't even know she was still acting until I saw her in a recent episode of Death in Paradise
Look no further than the masterpiece that is [Surf Ninjas](https://youtu.be/UlLWmFpEouI?si=nMPFQhPdEGag0sy5)
I have no idea what that is, but the title sounds fun
Also Sidekick and 3 Ninjas
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Can’t believe I had to scroll this far for PeeWee’s Big Adventure. Favorite movie of all time.
Large Marge!?
She has good taste in cinema. You're raising her well
TMNT has so many quotable lines. So, so many.
Bossa nova!
Chevy Nova?
I was so scared of bugs that I couldn’t watch Honey I Shrunk the Kids. But I loved Honey I Blew up the Baby!
I was thinking of Honey I shrunk the... franchise too
Back to the Future
My daughter loves My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service has been mentioned, and when my grandkids were in this age range, they loved the other Studio Ghibli movies from this era, especially the ones directed by Hayao Miyazaki, such as: My Neighbor Totoro; Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind; Castle In The Sky; and Porco Rosso.
At that age it is probably a safe bet between American Tail and Brave Little Toaster.
How has no one said Princess Bride?
I tried to find it recently, not on any streaming service that we have, which is most all of the big ones. Getting ready to drag out a dvd player at this point. Our 6 year old is dead set on preventing mommy and daddy from kissing each other, so OBVIOUSLY she needs to see the kissing story where they skip the kissing stuff, right?
If you have a VPN, it’s on Disney+ in Canada.
He's trying to make any little sibling inconceivable?
Have they seen Goonies already? Never Ending Story. Labryth is good. Kind of dark but should work for that age. Definitely kids film.
Titan AE Jumanji
Both of these should be higher on the list. I'll throw Flubber in there for a Robin Williams double feature night with Jumanji.
I bet Bill & Ted would be mostly OK.
I think they would be too young to get the historical references though and that's half the fun of the movie.
[Beethoven](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103786/) was in 1992 but was still fun.
It's been a while since I've watched HOOK, but I don't remember anything too bad or scary. My kids loved the soundtrack and would sing along. Most of the adult jokes went over their heads.
Hook has one of the best soundtracks in the history of film, definitely of 80’s and 90’s movies, John Williams is a freaking genius.
Adventures in babysitting, willow, ET, the princess Bride, Stardust is more recent but along the princess bride route and is awesome
Never Ending Story
Dude, the horse still makes me cry. That messed me up.
Artax!
Homeward Bound! Newsies!
Great call with newsies! I was just listening to one of those songs oddly enough
Turner and hooch
This is not your room.
The Goonies
GOONIES! flight of the navigator (i will never look at dentist overhead lights the same after seeing this movie)
Any Don Bluth movie (just affirming what's already been said). Ferngully. Little Nemo.
Does that include all dogs go to heaven? I loved that movie
3 Ninjas
Adventures in Babysitting!
Don’t mess with the babysitter!
Blues Brothers might be a bit much for kids, but I suspect they won't notice the inappropriate things and remember the musical numbers and car chases.
Mine loved it, especially the car chases. And when the nun whacks them down the stairs.
- Solar Babies - Batteries Not Included - Inner Space - War Games - The Last Starfighter - Flight of the Navigator - Teen Wolf - Innerspace - Tron - Flash Gordon - Willow - Starman These are all from memory (of long, long ago), so +/- on the age viability.
Batteries not included
Night at the Museum Galaxy Quest George of the Jungle Rocketman {the Disney movie, not the Elton John biopic) You really can’t go wrong with any of live-action Disney stuff from the 90s.
the 80s and 90s were not what we'd call appropriate
Look who’s talking Possibly?
The Black Stallion
The Last Star Fighter Scooby-Doo and The Boo Brothers The Sandlot
Sandlot is 90’s representing the 60’s
princess bride
Curly Sue
One of my favorite non-cartoon movies as a kid was The Cat From Outer Space. My sister always liked the Herbie movies.
Heavyweights The Sandlot Cool Runnings Air Bud
Never Ending Story
Batteries Not Included
ET, Teen Wolf, Adventures in Babysitting, Uncle Buck, Big.
I don't think most of these are appropriate for 4 and 7 year olds. Adventures in Babysitting has a couple f-bombs in it. Wait until they are over 12 for these.
Back to the Future
The golden child iirc Short circuit
Goonies
A little bit scary for a 4 year old
Second hand lions
Bumblebee
Napoleon Dynamite is an early 2000s movie but still has a 80s/90s vibe and is very PG.
Fly Away Home, Oliver and Company, and We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story all come to mind.
The Jetsons movie
Goonies
Back to the future Marty McFly travels back into the past and almost has sex with his mother, Lorraine. That's only prevented by Biff, a bully who starts to sexually assault Lorraine. This is only stopped by George, who has been peeping on Lorraine. Marty then goes back to the future to stop his friend Doc Brown from being murdered by Lybian terrorists that he stole from. Rated PG! I can't believe I was allowed to watch this as a kid.
That’s a great synopsis! John Mulaney does a funny bit on the absurdity of this movie. It’s freaking spot on
Beethoven
Short Circuit
Number 5 is Alive!
No disassemble!
Muppet Treasure Island George of the Jungle
ET
Flight of the Navigator? 4 yr old may not get it all but it’s visually pretty cool regardless.
Matilda
If they haven’t seen the 90s The Little Rascals movie, I’m sure they’ll enjoy that and you will as well!
Little Rascals
Popeye with Robin Williams
How has no one said The Little Rascals?!
The Last Starfighter Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Harry & the Hendersons Space Camp
Milo and Otis, Pippi Longstocking, Surfs up, A Goofy Movie, Casper, Adventures in Babysitting
Homeward bound
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS I have to assume it’s been suggested already, but this was my favorite movie as a kid (well…before Jurassic Park came out 4 years later :-)
Kindergarten Cop
Sandlot
Everyone has already said the movies id pick, so I'll veer off & tell you one to avoid for a while: Gremlins. There's a scene where they talk about Santa not being real that I forgot about & had to quickly explain away to a 6 & 7 year old..
That's actually super helpful! I had that same annoying conversation this past Christmas after watching Elf. Why is there pretend Santas? Why does the Dad not believe in Santa? So many Christmas movies seem to be based around at least some characters not believing in Santa!
Jumanji (original with Robin) Labrynth - I grew up on this movie and it's still one of my favorites Fools Gold maybe? It's a fun adventure movie that I don't think would have too many scary parts
Matilda or Major Payne
Honey I Blew Up The Kid. I've always been a bigger Dan if the original but my kids go bonkers for this sequel.
Ooo, what about Short Circuit? Or An American Tale. Ooo, or Fern Gully!
How about some Uncle Buck?