Top 10 Tween Movies to Watch This Valentine’s Day

By Movieguide® Contributor

Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love, friendship, and family. Do you want to include your tweens in on the fun but give them age-appropriate content? This Valentine’s Day, we’ve done a round up all our top movies for tweens. We’ve lined up classics like THE PARENT TRAP, which follows twins separated at birth who reunite and plot to get their parents together, but also included FLIPPED, which shows a love that blossoms between neighbor kids.

THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT

Quality:

****

Content:

+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)

THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT is the story of Mia as she returns to Genovia to accept the crown, where she learns that women must be married before they can be crowned queen. Without any foul language or mean spiritedness, this virtuous movie is more than delightful.

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ELLA ENCHANTED

Quality:

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

ELLA ENCHANTED is a retelling of the Cinderella story that, although it has great potential to be involving and interesting for children, spends more time advancing a socialist political message than entertaining them. Anne Hathaway is the movie’s saving grace, but there is not enough there to entertain young children.

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THE PARENT TRAP

Quality:

****

Content:

+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

In the remake of THE PARENT TRAP, Little Hallie Parker and Annie James (both played by newcomer, Lindsay Lohan) meet at camp and slowly discover that they are identical twins, separated at birth. Their job is to trick their parents into getting back together. Despite some pranks and a few exclamations, this movie is very moral, with a strong Christian worldview that extols family values.

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ENCHANTED

Quality:

****

Content:

+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

In ENCHANTED, an animated heroine is pushed down a well into the cruel, uncaring real world of New York City, where she finds her real love. ENCHANTED turns the archetypal fairy tale story inside out in a delightful, positive, morally worthwhile way.

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FLIPPED

Quality:

***

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

FLIPPED is a bighearted he said/she said romantic comedy about young love which starts in 1957 in Middle America and includes some insightful and timeless lessons about character. With great performances and the inimitable Rob Reiner touch, FLIPPED is an audience favorite from the start, chock full of life lessons in love, honesty and integrity, but with some brief foul language and depictions of a bad father and contrasted with a good one.

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A CINDERELLA STORY

Quality:

****

Content:

+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)

A CINDERELLA STORY STARS Hilary Duff in a modern re-telling of the Cinderella fairy tale. Wonderfully written and entertaining, A CINDERELLA STORY gets better and better as it goes along and extols all the cardinal Christian virtues in a positive, winsome, attractive way.

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TANGLED

Quality:

****

Content:

+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

TANGLED is Disney’s comical animated version of the Rapunzel fairy tale, wherein a thief gives Rapunzel a chance to escape the old hag who stole her from her parents, the king and queen. Despite an unresolved moral conflict, comical action violence and some Romanticism, TANGLED is beautiful, funny, exciting, delightful, and touching – with a redemptive, sacramental quality that lifts the movie, and its magical themes, into a more sublime entertainment.

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SHREK

Quality:

****

Content:

+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

Mike Myers plays the title role in SHREK, a fractured fairy tale about a smelly ogre who finds that it takes a princess with a punch to finally soften his heart. SHREK is a delightful computer animated comedy with only a few minor elements to take the bloom off its family-friendly rose.

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SING

Quality:

****

Content:

+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

SING is an animated musical comedy, set in a society of anthropomorphic animals, about a Koala Bear named Buster Moons who tries to put on a singing competition at his failing theater. SING is a funny and sometimes even exciting family movie with a positive message about sharing one’s gifts with the world, but caution is advised for younger children for some light questionable elements.

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A WEEK AWAY

Quality:

****

Content:

+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

A WEEK AWAY is a musical on Netflix about a troubled teenager who’s caused problems in every foster home he’s has been, but, when a family offers to put him in a summer camp that’s Christian, he’s hesitant. A WEEK AWAY is a fun, exciting, highly enjoyable Christian musical that the entire family will love.

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