By Movieguide® Contributor
Some of the sweetest movies to watch with the family are about animals, whether it’s about a beloved family pet or an animated adventure about animals. We all hate seeing our furry friends die in the movies and upset little ones, so we gathered our favorite animal flicks where the animals DON’T die. Sit back and enjoy this roundup of heartwarming animal movies.
UP, the fun-filled, exciting animated feature from Pixar and Disney, is about 78-year-old Carl, who decides to fulfill his wife’s lifelong dream to go to Paradise Falls in the remote Venezuelan jungle plateau when the government wants him to vacate his home.…
Read the Full Review →The Disney animated feature BOLT is about a canine actor in a superhero show on TV who thinks he has real super powers. Bolt is kept on the set so he never loses the feeling that he’s a super dog. One day,…
Read the Full Review →The story begins with the vacation-bound Seaver family dropping off their pets with girlfriend Kate, who lives on a farm. Life on Kate's Farm is fun for "Chance," an American bulldog puppy with a big appetite and nose for trouble, "Sassy," a…
Read the Full Review →In the animated movie PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH, Puss in Boots realizes he’s on his last life and needs to find the Last Wish star to ask for more lives. However, Puss isn’t the only one searching for the Last…
Read the Full Review →SING is an animated musical comedy from the studio that brought moviegoers DESPICABLE ME and THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS. Set in a society of anthropomorphic animals, the story’s about a Koala Bear named Buster Moons, who tries to put on a…
Read the Full Review →ZOOTOPIA is an animated adventure comedy set in a vast animal metropolis where predators and prey get along with each other. Judy Hopps has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. She gets her chance when Zootopia Mayor Lionheart decides to hire…
Read the Full Review →Like the movie ANTZ, Pixar Studios and Walt Disney’s A BUG’S LIFE tells the story of a persistent ant who saves his colony from a menacing villain. This time, the villain is a grasshopper named Hopper who leads a band of other…
Read the Full Review →BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE is a heartwarming family comedy based on the award-winning children’s novel. “Everything good that happened that summer happened because of Winn-Dixie,” explains 10-year-old Opal. Opal’s father (Jeff Daniels) is the new preacher of the Open Arms Baptist Church, a…
Read the Full Review →MADAGASCAR, the new animated feature from DreamWorks, tells the story of Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippo. Marty wants to leave the Central Park Zoo to see the wild, and Alex, Melman and Gloria try…
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