Top 10 Family Animated Movies to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

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Top 10 Family Animated Movies to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

By Movieguide® Contributor

Cuddling up for a movie together as a family on Valentine’s Day sounds like the perfect plan! We’ve gathered up our top ten favorite animated movies for you to enjoy with the kiddos this Valentine’s Day. Some stories more romantic than others, like BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and others with more emphasis on the love of family, like THE INCREDIBLES. We’ve got just the movie for anyone in your family!

GNOMEO AND JULIET

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
GNOMEO & JULIET is a delightful, inventive, funny animated musical reinvention for families of Shakespeare’s play ROMEO & JULIET, using the backdrop of feuding garden gnomes in present-day London. Even better, the movie’s “Love thy neighbor” message contains a redemptive theme of forgiveness.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (3D)

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST follows the fantastic adventures of Belle, a beautiful, but bored French girl whose life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself imprisoned by a brooding Beast with a mysterious secret that holds the key to their future. With its newly enhanced format and the addition of a great new scene and song, this movie is a must-see for all except the very young or easily frightened.

INSIDE OUT

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
INSIDE OUT is an animated comedy about a young girl who has a wonderful life, until her family moves to San Francisco and her emotions get out of control. INSIDE OUT is a well-made, delightful movie with a great plot line, excellent animation and a strong moral worldview.

TROLLS

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
TROLLS is a delightful animated comedy about the famous Troll dolls, in a story about Princess Poppy trying to save her friends from the troll eating Bergens, with assistance from an unhappy, fearful troll named Branch. With only one adult innuendo as a joke and 3 OMG's, TROLLS is an adorable, fun, funny animated movie the family can enjoy.

LUCA

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
Pixar’s new animated comedy, LUCA, is about a young teenage boy who visits a beautiful seaside Italian town with his newfound friend, but all their fun is threated by a deep secret: they are both sea monsters from another world just below the ocean’s surface. Streaming on Disney Plus, LUCA isn’t as spectacular a production as the best of Pixar’s animated classics, but it’s a delightful, heartwarming, funny family movie with appealing characters where friendship overcomes prejudice and sinful pride.

THE INCREDIBLES

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
THE INCREDIBLES is another incredible animated movie from Pixar and Disney, about two retired superhero parents who must battle a villain targeting their family. Beautifully animated, THE INCREDIBLES is full of exciting energy, fantastic fun, and humorous hilarity, with a very strong redemptive, Christian worldview full of many positive moral messages.

THE LITTLE PRINCE (2016)

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
THE LITTLE PRINCE is an animated movie about a little girl living in a grownup world, who meets an aviator and discovers that miracles are possible and hope and faith are necessary. Promoting a strong moral worldview about love, courage, hope, and belief, THE LITTLE PRINCE is a delightful, whimsical story about childhood and imagination.

UP

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
UP, the new animated feature from Pixar and Disney, is about a 78-year-old widower and a young boy scout who find the adventure of a lifetime on a jungle plateau in Venezuela full of unknown dangers. UP is another heartfelt, family-friendly, utterly delightful animated classic from the wonderful team at Pixar and Disney.

FROZEN (2013)

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
FROZEN is an animated comic fantasy from Disney about a princess who must convince her sister, the queen, to bring summer back after she uses magic powers to freeze the kingdom. FROZEN is not only a funny, entertaining movie, with incredible animation, its highly redemptive, moral premise shows that true love is sacrifice.

MONSTERS, INC.

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
MONSTERS, INC. is an animated fantasy from Pixar Animation Studios (the TOY STORY movies) about two fanciful, lovable “monsters,” who run into complications and an insidious plot when they try to return a little human child to her world. MONSTERS, INC. is a hilarious, incredibly imaginative, exciting, fabulous animated movie.

Watch I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Quality: - Content: +2
Watch THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS
Quality: - Content: +1