Disney's superb cartoon version of Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale of a beautiful mermaid, who longs to become human after falling in love with a prince whom she saves from drowning. Great animation, especially the underwater scenes, some fun singalong songs, at long last Disney began to recognize the importance of pop in children's movies. All in all a lot better than some of Disney's immediately preceding kids' films. find out more...

Adapted from the classic, poetic allegory by the French pilot and explorer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, this tale of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara Desert and meets an enchanting young boy who comes from an asteroid somewhere in outer-space is ultimately a sad and touching observation on life. Featuring some beautiful desert landscapes, intergalactic flashbacks and great cameos from Gene Wilder and Bob Fosse. find out more...

An orphaned 13-year-old girl is sent to live with her sullen uncle in a big, rambling country house, Moonacre Manor, taking with her only a mysterious book, a prized inheritance from her father, in which she reads of an age-old feud between two families. She soon realises that she is the last Moon Princess of the valley and it is her solemn duty to find some magic pearls and end this feud... and maybe, just maybe, she might find romance too. find out more...

Tinker Bell is born from the first laugh of a newborn baby and brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow, Never Land. Here she meets the other fairies and learns that her talent is to be a tinker, a fairy who makes and fixes things. The other tinkers teach her their craft and she is able to repair a ballerina music box using parts found washed up on the beach, but when she tries to learn other arts, like tending animals or capturing the dreaded thistles, she fails miserably, accidentally destroying t find out more...

Friendless Max is having a pretty miserable time, his mother's paying more attention to her boyfriend and older sister Claire and her mates are a pain in the butt. So, dressed in his wolf costume, he whisks himself away to a wondrous imaginary world where the wild things live. The locations are real, the photography top notch, the costumes are costumes (some CGI juggling with facial expressions apart), the fantastical wild ones a bunch of immature adolescents, who need the nurturing guidance o find out more...

Roald Dahl's story about a poor boy who wins a trip round a magic chocolate factory and, like all Dahl stories, this is a moral tale with a distincly dark side to it. Gene Wilder is wonderfully cynical and sadistic as Mr Wonka and some of the sets are very psychedelic. This film is a lighter semi-musical version of the book - great for the kids. find out more...