How old were your kids when they first saw animated (or regular) films in the cinema?

Well my oldest is 4 and a half and I haven’t taken him to the movies yet.

My daughter was 4 when Disney re-released a restored Pinochio in theaters. I thought that would be a great first theater experience for her, but I had completely forgotten how extremely dark that movie is. She spent most of the movie with her hands over her eyes. She’s now 22 and still has a deep-seated mistrust of movies.

I hope she got over her fear of wood.

My son was 4½, we went to see Toy Story 2 together.

I was 7ish when I first went to the cinema and I went to watch Care Bears The Movie. To be honest I can’t remember the first time I took my daughter to the cinema, I think it was Nemo are some Disney film…she loves going to the cinemaand I used to take her as much as poss, we even went for her birthday once with her friends…she is 12 now and loves to go on her own with her friends!

I remember my parents taking me to see Star Wars when it first came out. I was 5.

I am still waiting for my daughter to be older enough, she is turning 3 this year but I took my cousin when she was only 2 to see home alone and we got in the theatre bought popcorn, and what ever else she wanted I remember we had a ton of stuff then the movie started and she began to say too big, too big, they are too big… needless to say we promptly left the theatre before the movie truly began. So I am waiting on taking my daughter till at least 4, hoping for a better experience for her.

I was at the best age to see Star Wars – best age for me that is – and I remember it well. I have been a geek/nerd/trekkie/trekker/star wars/trek/asimov/heinlein etcetera freak since.

I was 4ish when I saw Aladdin in theatres. It literally scared the poop out of me.

I wouldn’t take any kid to the theatres until they were 5–6ish. Until then, do movies at home.

I took my 3½ year old daughter and 5 year old son to see Winnie the Pooh. We were enjoying it. Next thing I knew, my daughter was running down the aisle yelling, “No Pooh! No!” as he got swept away in an umbrella during a rain storm. I think everybody in the theater enjoyed that.

My parents started us at the drive in when we were about 3. We could make noise and move around some without bothering the other viewers. If we got tired we could sleep on the back seat. We could play on the play ground before the movie started.

We didn’t start going to theaters until my brother got into kindergarten.

It was either Master so of the Universe or Who Framed Roger Rabbit? when younger son was 2½ and older around 5. Younger son was mesmerized and said he really liked Roger’s sister!

The first movie I took my son to what the SpongeBob Movie. We went to see it right before his 3rd birthday. He did really well with it. He was such a big SpongeBob fan that I decided we’d see how it went. To this day (he’s 9 now), he loves going to the movie theatre. He gets the kid combos they have (drink, popcorn, and usually a snack) and sits quietly through the whole move.

I was 3 when my mother took me to see The Little Mermaid. I think it was a much bigger deal for her than for me, because she still tells the story of how cute I was on a frequent basis.

We took the kids to see Earth (their first cinema experience) when they were 5 years old. It was a bit too intense for them, but then again my kids are kind of sheltered. I wanted their first experience to be a quiet theatre full of people behaving themselves.

I took my kids to movies since they were months old. I would time the movie with their nap time and bottles so they fell asleep as soon as the lights where dimmed. Never failed. I think up to the age of 4 or 5 they had a hard time staying awake as soon as the lights were dimmed. I think An American Tail was the first movie, making my son about 3 years old and my daughter 1.

Because I couldn’t find a sitter, I took my 8 month old son with me and a couple of friends to see “Amilee”. You should have seen the faces of people as we were waiting in line! They all had looks of discontent out of fear that my son was going to start babbling or crying during the film. Low and behold…he was still and quite throughout the entire movie! After the film, several people made it a point to comment how “good” he was throughout the film and that they were really expecting him to wail out of control! Ha! So much for pre-judging!

The first movie I saw in theaters was The Lion King. I was four and I’m pretty sure my sister came along too, she would’ve been one and a bit. I remember being scared when Mufasa got trampled by the gazelle herd. Perhaps a more inappropriate movie that my mom took me and my sister to see was Grease back during its re-release. I was eight and my sister was five. We were instructed to shut our eyes during those hot and heavy make out scenes. That movie made me fall in love with musicals.

The first for my kids was Wall-E. My son would’ve been around 10, my daughter 8. Fairly late it’s true, but they weren’t that fussed about going to the cinema up until then.

My parents took me to see Beauty and the Beast. I was 4 and the only thing I really remember was the seat trying to fold up on me.

When I was
A young boy/girl
and in primary school, the class went to see some carebear movie.

So cute. Ten minutes. Awwww.

I was probably around 4 or 5. I don’t have any kids of my own.

My dad used to take me to the drive in when I was a little older. Also we would go to double features when I was 8 or 9 at the local theatre. But those weren’t cartoons.

My parents took my siblings and I to see The Lion King. I was five and my younger brother was four. I bawled when Mufasa died (not because I was scared, but because I was sad.) That didn’t stop me from enjoying the film, though. We saw it nine more times and still have the ticket stubs saved in the china cabinet downstairs.

I’m pretty sure we also saw Beauty and the Beast when it was released, but I was too young to remember the experience. Apparently, it had a huge impact on me because I was obsessed with that one.

I can’t recall my siblings or I ever having a poor cinema experience (animated or live action). But, then again, my younger brother was raised on slasher films. We could just be a strange family.

The Jungle Book. My son was two, my daughter was three.

When I was a young boy/girl and in primary school, the class went to see some carebear movie.

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Are you not sure whether you are a boy or a girl – or are you both? Curious.

You’ve mentioned that you are male – the last time I checked anyway. Did you have a sex change over there in Germany? (not that I care)

since you don’t care

I don’t. But it was strange.

My grandson was 2½ when he went to his first big screen movie (Ice Age 3). He loved it.
My son was 1½ when I took him to see Roger Rabbit. He was too young to sit thru it.

When I was six I saw The Black Hole and then Star Trek: The Motion Picture in a movie theater that was built into a very old mall. It was a single screen theater with a large auditorium that would soon be divided into two smaller ones. It seemed very, very big to me at the time.

Our daughter was about 3 when we took her to the movies for the first time and saw Lilo and Stitch. She loved it, and has really enjoyed going to the movies ever since. Only once did we have to leave, and we laugh about it now. When she was four-ish we took her to see that horse movie called Spirit. Great movie, by the way. Toward the end, there’s a dramatic scene with a train (empty) crash and forest fire. The horse gets trapped close to the fire, but his Native American friend saves him and they ride off. My daughter lasted until the horse was safe and the movie was calm again, then just stood up and walked out. She decided she was done just in case there was another dramatic scene. spoiler alert It wasn’t until the movie came out on DVD that we learned the female horse hadn’t died after all and Spirit got to return home to his family!

Our boys were a little older when they saw their first movies just because they’ve always been less able to sit still. We found that being careful with both the movie choice AND the movie time greatly increased our odds of seeing the movie happily without one of us having to walk a young child out of the theater. Our youngest is only 6, and I don’t even remember the last time we had any kind of problem at the movies. Not that we go more than a couple of times a year, but at least we get to sit and enjoy the movie happily when we do go.

I’d never, ever, take a child to a movie intended for an older audience. It drives me crazy to see a PG-13 or R rated movie and have small children there. Not only is it inappropriate for them, they get bored and bother other people. pet peeve

I saw a family of 5 – three little kids maybe aged 4–9ish – at Avatar.

I get upset when I see young kids at movies like that… but I get upset and on a big soapbox about people blindly letting their young’uns watch the Disney and Nick TV channels these days.
My son… his first movie in the theaters, I believe, was the Flintstones when he was about 3 or 4. My daughter…the Incredibles when she was 2. Both kids are movie buffs now.

Loved both the Flintstones and the Incredibles. Not so much the movie version of the Flintstones.

No kids yet. My first movie-theater movie (that I’m aware of) was The Little Mermaid when I was about three years old. Ursula the Sea Witch was terrifying. I’m told that I made such a fuss that we ended up leaving the theater. Compounding matters was that one of my great aunts bore a striking resemblance to the Witch, and so I was also afraid of her for a few years.
I was old enough at the time of The Lion King that I was interested in the lion fight, so was treated to the heart-wrenching extended death scene as well.

We never took the kids to the cinema when they were little, no definitive reason why, just never happened. The first film they did see was Wall-E, they’d have been 9 & 11, around about the age I feel.