01 A magical nanny disciplines seven unruly children with a walking stick and hard lessons.
10 Best 2000s Family Movies
By Vlad Zakh · November 24, 2025
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The 2000s split family movies between live-action fantasy (Narnia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and the first wave of animated films with real emotional ambition, The Incredibles chief among them. In Bridge to Terabithia (2007): Two kids invent a fantasy kingdom together, until the story turns genuinely devastating. Equally memorable is Elf (2003): A human raised as an elf moves to New York looking for his real father.
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02 A night guard discovers every exhibit in the museum comes alive after dark.
03 An animated princess gets pulled into real-world New York and stays in character the whole time.
04 Four siblings step through a wardrobe into a kingdom frozen by an eternal winter.
05 A boy sentenced to dig holes at a desert camp uncovers a decades-old buried secret.
06 Tim Burton's stranger, darker take on the golden-ticket factory tour.
07 Two kids invent a fantasy kingdom together, until the story turns genuinely devastating.
08 A failed musician poses as a substitute teacher and turns his class into a band.
09 A human raised as an elf moves to New York looking for his real father.
10 A superhero family forced back into action, still Pixar's sharpest action film.
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