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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....

My 5 year old is also pretty sensitive to movies. So far the ones that work well are:

Wall-E
Finding Nemo (skip the shark scene)
Bambi (somehow nothing registers as scary/sad to him in this...*shrug*)

ETA: We haven't watched it yet with DS yet, but I don't remember Sing being scary and it has animals

Trolls Holiday on Netflix - cute songs and nothing scary!

Thinking maybe the Peanuts Movie but I can’t exactly remember — anyone know if there were bad parts?

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.

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.

Maybe Ratatouille? My newly minted 6yo son loves it but I have not sat down to watch from beginning to end.

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.

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!

I have so been there on this. We have finally gotten mostly over it now that my oldest is 8.

@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.

We also watched Sing about 500 times, has animals and pretty tame! And good songs!

Wall-E was ok too I think.

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.

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.

@caitcat: my daughter is the same way. Would love to know the title of the German movie!

We did Madagascar (1st one), Sing, Cars, and the Winnie the Pooh movies on Disney + for our sensitive little pumpkin 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

I also think Ratatouille would be a good call!

On Amazon Prime: Room on the Broom, and The Gruffalo and the Gruffalo's child are great, and so sweet.

@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

@caitcat: thanks for the recommendation on the movie. We did add in subtitles.