https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 20:28:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914876 Sat, 02 May 2020 18:45:51 +0000 Bmaja 2914876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caitcat: thanks for the recommendation on the movie. We did add in subtitles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914850 Fri, 01 May 2020 22:00:38 +0000 Miss Ariel 2914850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurplePeony: my kids love the Disney Robin Hood too. The call it the one the jail movie since everyone goes to jail for not paying their taxes. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914787 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:57:46 +0000 wrkbrk 2914787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caitcat: How about the Peanuts movie? Absolutely not sad or scary. My son (4) has watched it approximately 2638292 times and it’s also cute for adults! Everyone loves snoopy :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914772 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:54:34 +0000 caitcat 2914772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So many great recommendations! Thank you all! </p> <p>She just wrapped up one of the Tinker Bell movies this afternoon and it was a big hit, with time spent minimal hiding under her blanket. Plus, it bought me an extra hour to wrap up a project for work. It was a win all around. Yay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914771 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:38:38 +0000 hellobeeboston 2914771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I also think Ratatouille would be a good call!</p> <p>On Amazon Prime: Room on the Broom, and The Gruffalo and the Gruffalo's child are great, and so sweet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914765 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:07:53 +0000 caitcat 2914765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bmaja: It's on Netflix and is called Pettersson and Findus 2 (which makes me think there's a first one? if there is, we haven't seen it). From what I gather of the plot, there's a cat and his friend who are trying to make their house festive for Christmas, but have a few silly setbacks along the way. I'd like to think my daughter realizes that it's not in English, but she hasn't ever asked why she doesn't know any of the words! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914764 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:07:49 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2914764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did Madagascar (1st one), Sing, Cars, and the Winnie the Pooh movies on Disney + for our sensitive little pumpkin :silly: he did grow out of it and now he’s seen both Frozens, Lego movie, Onward, Moana, etc. He was so scared of them swimming in Moana for a long time ha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914755 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:49:17 +0000 PurplePeony 2914755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 6.5 year old is just starting to get a bit less sensitive about movies (though we had a giant fail with Up a couple weeks ago). Some of her perennial favorites are Sofia the First (the show and the movie); the Tinker Bell movies, especially Pirate Fairy and The Secret of the Wings; The Sword in the Stone and Robin Hood (old Disney movies); and a show on Amazon Prime called Wishenpoof, which is by the same producer as Daniel Tiger. She does also like the Frozen movies, Cinderella, and was totally unfazed by the lava monster in Moana, which surprised me, but we had to stop The Lion King about 20 minutes in and she still refuses to have anything to do with it. So I don’t know if there’s any rhyme or reason to what is too scary and what isn’t. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914751 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:49:24 +0000 Bmaja 2914751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caitcat: my daughter is the same way. Would love to know the title of the German movie! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914748 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:53:22 +0000 annem1990 2914748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2 year old is terrified of any cartoons. Even super mild ones (like Clifford) can set him off. So we’ve watched more Live Action movies which we enjoy too! Annie, High School Musical, Grease, Parent Trap, Mary Poppins were all hits. He even loved the production of Phantom of the Opera that aired on YouTube last week. How he can watch that happily but be terrified of Daniel Tiger is beyond me :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914746 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:09:44 +0000 josina 2914746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 3 and 5 year old both love The Greatest Showman. Bonus that its an adult movie. :) I hear my 5 year old singing the songs all the time now, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914736 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:51:48 +0000 lady baltimore 2914736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My four-year-old has only recently (like, while sheltering at home) become brave enough to watch any Disney movies. I think Tangled is the tamest of the ones she's seen.</p> <p>Long before she was ready for those, our regular rotation was Mamma Mia, Annie (the Quevenzhane Wallis version), and Shrek the Musical (it's on Netflix). Live action movie musicals seem to do a good job of introducing conflict without being scary. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914730 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:08:53 +0000 erinbaderin 2914730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don’t think Madagascar has any scary bits. And another vote for Sing. Monsters University, maybe? Cars might work, I don’t think it has anything scary. And it’s seasonally inappropriate, but The Snowman might be a hit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914719 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:35:21 +0000 poppygirl15 2914719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is out of season, but my kids love the Curious George Halloween movie. I think it's on Netflix and called Curious George and the Halloween Fest? Any Curious George is going to be tame though. Oh, and Winnie the Pooh! Sword in the Stone is also good and Robin Hood (Disney, with the fox) is pretty low key. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914711 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:08:17 +0000 bhbee 2914711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have so been there on this. We have finally gotten mostly over it now that my oldest is 8. </p> <p>@charlotte: Peanuts has been really good for us! (the version that came out a few years ago.) Charlie Brown gets a little disappointed at times but that's about it.</p> <p>We also watched Sing about 500 times, has animals and pretty tame! And good songs!</p> <p>Wall-E was ok too I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914710 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:55:30 +0000 Madison43 2914710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a sensitive 6 year old too! The tinker bell movies are a good choice - there’s a bunch of them; no scary parts that I can remember? They are mostly adventure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914709 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:51:47 +0000 ElbieKay 2914709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe Ratatouille? My newly minted 6yo son loves it but I have not sat down to watch from beginning to end.</p> <p>I just watched The Parent Trap (original version with Hayley Mills) with him, and he stayed engaged. I don't think it is too scary unless you stop to think about the fact that the parents split up the twins when they were babies.</p> <p>Stay away from the Lion King... my son is not sensitive AT ALL, and he was still scared by the fight scene at the end! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914708 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:46:21 +0000 caitcat 2914708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JennyPenny: That's interesting about Bambi. My daughter has been begging to watch Bambi (she fell in love with the characters in a Disney story book and is obsessed). I keep coming up with one reason or another why its not working because I just couldn't see it going well. It's been years since I've seen it though, so I don't remember the details...I might skim through it one night to see if I think she might not really get it. It is surprising what's gone over her head before, and the older movies have such a different feel from the fast paced suspenseful parts of newer ones. So you never know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914707 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:42:32 +0000 caitcat 2914707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the ideas! This is so helpful! </p> <p>And it might have just saved our Friday night - my husband said he can't sit through the cat movie in German again. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914705 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:25:36 +0000 Dahlia 2914705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have the same issue here - everything is too scary. The original Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and the original Mary Poppins have worked really well. The bonus of Mary Poppins is that it is extremely long! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914702 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:49:24 +0000 Silva 2914702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We found that my sensitive daughter could handle a lot more if we read the book first. So we'd get a copy of the DIsney book and read it, then we could reference it while watching the movie. But Tangled was her first disney princess movie after Cinderella and it was fine. Even reading the plot on wikipedia or whatever has helped my daughter prepare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914701 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:36:46 +0000 misolee 2914701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my 4 year old is like this. We recently watched Finding Nemo and except the shark part he was able to get through it. We're going to try Finding Dory this weekend </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914700 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:30:16 +0000 hitchhiker 2914700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 7 year old has always been terrified of all movies that have any element of suspense - and for a while I thought that was all movies, because plot requires some element of suspense! So until COVID, we literally only watched cooking competition shows together because it was our only overlapping interest. (She would often want to watch Daniel Tiger or Arthur movies, but I just could not do that for family movie night!) However, we have discovered recently that she is much more willing to watch movies with real people over cartoons. So we have watched the Parent Trap, Hidden Figures, Rookie of the Year over the past few weeks. Maybe something to try? She still will not do Frozen, Toy Story, etc. Too scary. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914699 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:25:22 +0000 meganmp 2914699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The original Mary Poppins? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Bedknobs and Broomsticks, maybe? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914698 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:11:34 +0000 charlotte 2914698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Trolls Holiday on Netflix - cute songs and nothing scary! </p> <p>Thinking maybe the Peanuts Movie but I can’t exactly remember — anyone know if there were bad parts? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914697 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:00:44 +0000 SweetCaroline 2914697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JennyPenny: yes, sing! DD loves that!</p> <p>I also thought of Pets, DD loves Pets! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914696 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:41:06 +0000 JennyPenny 2914696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 5 year old is also pretty sensitive to movies. So far the ones that work well are:</p> <p>Wall-E<br /> Finding Nemo (skip the shark scene)<br /> Bambi (somehow nothing registers as scary/sad to him in this...*shrug*)</p> <p>ETA: We haven't watched it yet with DS yet, but I don't remember Sing being scary and it has animals :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914695 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:34:53 +0000 SweetCaroline 2914695@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We skip a lot.of scenes, I have a 5 year old as well.</p> <p>Trolls (some of the bergen parts are dark and scary)<br /> Peter Rabbit<br /> Hop<br /> Elf<br /> Moana (again, some dark parts)</p> <p>I've found that shockingly she enjoys some non animated movies like Parent Trap, etc. more than cartoons. Less dark spots, the skipping scenes is more for parental guidance/language. She also enjoys Be Our Chef on Disney+...not a movie, but fun to watch as a family. It's like Chopped with a Disney theme and entire families participate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914694 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:32:30 +0000 Miss Ariel 2914694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My kids have been obsessed with Onward lately, which I wouldn’t say is scary. But they’ve also been watching The Rescuers a ton (the old Disney movie from the 70s), which Is so sad to me now, so they’re probably not a great judge.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/movie-recommendations-for-sensitive-5-year-old#post-2914693 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:29:38 +0000 caitcat 2914693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We’ve had a Friday movie night going for a while now...but I’m feeling a little over our regular go-to movie options. My five and a half year old is a super sensitive kid - she’s very overwhelmed by anything scary or sad, and it rules out a lot of movies. She was even afraid of Lucifer the cat in Cinderella, which I thought was a tame otherwise. (I mean, aside from the big picture premise - but that’s over her head!) </p> <p>Aristocrats was a hit, she enjoyed the Fox and the Hound 2 (not the original)...and some random movie about a cat at Christmas that we found on Netflix has gone over really well. But it’s in German, so I’m pretty sure the only reason it doesn’t get to her is that she doesn’t understand what they’re saying and just likes watching the animated cat. 😂</p> <p>Any recommendations for happier movies that have gone over well with your kids? Even better if there are animals or princesses in them! </p>