The Best Family Films on Freeview this Week
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Poster for Batteries Not Included (1987) Parental Guidance: suitable for general viewing, some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children Batteries Not Included (1987)
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Kids & Family / Comedy
1h 46m
A family of tiny alien spacecraft intervenes to help the residents of a run-down Manhattan brownstone tenement stop greedy developers from demolishing their homes. However, the miniature flying saucers have the odds stacked against them as they bravely do all they can to save the day. Sci-fi fantasy... full film details 		10:25 17 Apr trailer 5STAR
Audience: 64% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 60% rottentomatoes rating
Batteries Not Included (1987) on IMDb
Poster for FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) Universal: suitable for audiences aged four years and over FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Kids & Family / Action & Adventure / Animation
1h 16m
A fairy living in a forest encounters a member of a lumber crew and magically shrinks him down to her size. He learns about the damage humans are doing to the area, and helps defend it when his fellow loggers unwittingly unleash an evil spirit that had been entombed in a tree. Animated adventure, wi... full film details 		11:00 17 Apr trailer Film4
Audience: 64% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 63% rottentomatoes rating
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) on IMDb
Poster for Over the Hedge (2006) Parental Guidance: suitable for general viewing, some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children Over the Hedge (2006)
Kids & Family / Action & Adventure / Animation / Comedy
1h 23m
A raccoon trickster is fretting about his debt to a fearsome bear when he stumbles on some animals waking in the woods after their winter nap. Spotting the chance to solve his problem, the raccoon dupes the gullible creatures into stealing food from a nearby suburb so he can give it to the bear - bu... full film details 		14:25 17 Apr trailer Film4
Audience: 71% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 75% rottentomatoes rating
Over the Hedge (2006) on IMDb
Poster for Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010) Parental Guidance: suitable for general viewing, some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010)
Mystery & Thriller / Kids & Family / Animation / Comedy
1h 15m
The cowardly canine and his friends investigate a summer camp where spooky things are rumoured to be going on. They discover that any time anyone tells a ghost story around the camp fire, the creature in the tale becomes real, leaving them with a series of monsters to deal with. Animated comedy, wit... full film details 		11:10 18 Apr trailer CBBC HD
Audience: 73% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: (50%) rottentomatoes rating
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010) on IMDb
Poster for Babe (1995) Universal: suitable for audiences aged four years and over Babe (1995)
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Kids & Family / Comedy / Drama
1h 34m
A piglet dreams of being a champion sheepdog but several greedy humans are determined to see him end up on a dinner plate. Family comedy, with James Cromwell and Magda Szubanski full film details 		13:50 18 Apr trailer ITV
Audience: 67% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 97% rottentomatoes rating
Babe (1995) on IMDb
Poster for Despicable Me 2 (2013) Parental Guidance: suitable for general viewing, some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Kids & Family / Action & Adventure / Animation / Comedy
1h 38m
A reformed criminal mastermind who has abandoned his wicked ways for a life of fatherhood and jam-making helps a secret agent to bring one of his fellow evil geniuses to justice. The villain in question has stolen a dangerous experimental serum with the power to turn harmless animals into ravening m... full film details 		17:10 18 Apr trailer ITV2
Audience: 85% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 75% rottentomatoes rating
Despicable Me 2 (2013) on IMDb
Poster for Shrek (2001) Parental Guidance: suitable for general viewing, some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children Shrek (2001)
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Kids & Family / Animation / Comedy
1h 29m
Anti-social ogre Shrek resolves to stop an evil ruler from banishing fairy-tale characters to his swampland home. However, the reluctant hero ends up forced to rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona from a castle guarded by a dragon, aided only by a wisecracking donkey. Animated comedy, with the voices... full film details 		19:10 24 Apr trailer ITV2
Audience: 90% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 88% rottentomatoes rating
Shrek (2001) on IMDb
Poster for Mr Peabody & Sherman (2014) Parental Guidance: suitable for general viewing, some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children Mr Peabody & Sherman (2014)
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Kids & Family / Action & Adventure / Animation / Comedy
1h 31m
A super-intelligent talking dog invents a time machine and adopts a human boy to assist with his experiments. The curious youngster cannot resist meddling with the invention - with disastrous results - and the duo have to journey into the past to undo the damage done to the course of history. Animat... full film details 		19:40 24 Apr trailer CBBC HD
Audience: 73% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 81% rottentomatoes rating
Mr Peabody & Sherman (2014) on IMDb
Poster for Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015) Parental Guidance: suitable for general viewing, some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015)
Kids & Family / Action & Adventure / Animation / Comedy
1h 12m
Scooby-Doo and the gang win five seats in a lottery to go up into space in billionaire Sly Baron's new spaceship. Animated family adventure, with the voice of Frank Welker full film details 		11:00 25 Apr trailer CBBC HD
Audience: 70% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: (50%) rottentomatoes rating
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015) on IMDb
Poster for Chicken Run (2000) Universal: suitable for audiences aged four years and over Chicken Run (2000)
Kids & Family / Action & Adventure / Animation / Comedy
1h 25m
A headstrong chicken and her fellow fowls ponder how to escape from a grim Yorkshire farm before the evil farmer's wife can turn them into pies. Luckily, help arrives in the form of a heroic American rooster who promises to show them how to fly. Nick Park's animated comedy, with the voices of Mel Gi... full film details 		17:30 25 Apr trailer ITV2
Audience: 65% rottentomatoes rating
Critics: 97% rottentomatoes rating
Chicken Run (2000) on IMDb
Last updated: 17/04/2021 03:00