Now Streaming – August 2025

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By Leigh Hewett

There are several great Kids & Family movies coming to your favorite streaming services in August. From a classic like MINIONS to the hilarious movie LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE, there’s np shortage of cute flicks for a fun family movie night.

Netflix - 8/1/2025

MINIONS - 8/1/2025

Quality:
***
Content:
-2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.
MINIONS finds three of the little yellow fellows seeking an evil villain to serve after they lose another master. Unlike the DESPICABLE ME movies, MINIONS stays despicable and glorifies crime, villains and violence.

Hulu - 8/24/2025

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 - 8/24/2025

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 is a terrific sequel to the hit 2020 action comedy, where Sonic and his adopted human parents must overcome a returned Dr. Robotnik, who’s teamed up with an alien warrior looking for an emerald imbued with great power. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 is a cute, funny movie with lots of lively, exciting jeopardy, heartfelt family moments, plenty of humor, and a fun wedding scene, but it does have some light foul language and strong cartoon violence with punching, hitting and explosions, both of which warrant caution for children.

Prime Video - 8/7/2025

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE - 8/7/2025

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
In the animated comedy THE CROODS: A NEW AGE, the prehistoric Crood family meets a family named the Bettermans, who challenge the Croods on everything. THE CROODS: A NEW AGE is a very funny, heartwarming movie that the whole family can enjoy, with moral messages about family, commitment and love throughout the story.

HBO Max - 8/4/2025

LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE - 8/4/2025

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE is a fun comedy about a singing crocodile who defends a middle school boy named Josh who sees the good in the talking reptile and builds an unlikely friendship with him. LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE is funny and enjoyable and has a strong moral worldview with many positive themes, but it could use a little more jeopardy and some scenes can be scary for little children.

Peacock - 8/22/2025

NIGHT OF THE ZOOPOCALYPSE - 8/22/2025

Quality:
***
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
NIGHT OF THE ZOOPOCALYPSE is an animated comedy that follows a female wolf who teams up with other animals in a zoo to survive the night when a mutant infection runs rampant in their zoo, turning other animals into gummified zombies. NIGHT OF THE ZOOPOCALYPSE is engaging, colorful and funny, with some moral, redemptive virtues promoting working together, courage and sacrifice, but it features some intense and scary cartoon violence and some Romantic, humanist elements that warrant caution for younger and older children.

Paramount+

THE LITTLE RASCALS

Quality:
**
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
In THE LITTLE RASCALS, Spanky and the gang are bent on winning the big go-cart race with Alfalfa at the wheel. This movie lacks the magic of the original Little Rascals which it tries so hard to copy that it is drained of almost all humor. Furthermore, there is a minor amount of foul language, some crude slapstick moments and some sexual innuendo which warrant discernment for young children.

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