By Movieguide® Contributor
Are you looking for an action-packed superhero movie for your family movie night? We’ve gathered together our top ten superhero movies that will be sure to entertain everyone in your family. Movies like CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER and THE AVENGERS for you and your teens, and other movies like SPY KIDS and THE INCREDIBLES for your younger kiddos—there’s something for everyone!
THE INCREDIBLES is another incredible animated movie from Pixar and Disney. It opens by introducing several superheroes, including Mr. Incredible, a superhero uncomfortable with his celebrity. Because of his superhero duties, Mr. Incredible gets to his wedding with “Elastigirl” a little late.…
Read the Full Review →THE AVENGERS is a rousing superhero spectacle. Thor’s evil brother reaches Earth. He steals the Tesseract, a powerful energy cube found in the first CAPTAIN AMERICA movie. Secret government agent Nick Fury rounds up Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, and…
Read the Full Review →SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is an animated comic book adventure where different incarnations of Spider-Man from other dimensions, including two females and a talking pig, team up to fight evil. In one dimension, Miles, a black Hispanic teenager, gets bitten by a…
Read the Full Review →CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER tells the origin of Marvel’s first super-hero. During the beginnings of World War II, scrawny Brooklyn native Steve Rogers is repeatedly turned down by the Army. The head of a secret super soldier project, however, is impressed…
Read the Full Review →SKY HIGH is the first fun, funny comic book movie of 2005. The movie tells the story of Will Stronghold, whose parents are famous superheroes, the Commander and Jetstream. When they're not saving the world the Commander and Jetstream are real estate…
Read the Full Review →DESPICABLE ME 4 opens with Gru and three minions traveling to Gru’s old School of Villainy to capture Maxime Le Mal. With help from the Anti-Villain League, Gru captures Maxime, who’s transformed himself into a human-sized cockroach with superpowers. However, Maxime escapes…
Read the Full Review →BIG HERO 6 is an excellent Disney animated movie set in a fictional metropolis called San Fransokyo. Hiro is a 14-year-old boy with a gift for robotics. His parents are deceased, so Hiro lives with his older brother and their aunt. Hiro’s…
Read the Full Review →THE ADVENTURES OF SHARK BOY AND LAVA GIRL is another wonderfully inventive, funny children’s movie from the creative mind of Robert Rodriguez, the creator of SPY KIDS. Ten-year-old Max’s classmates don’t believe him when he says that his stories about Shark Boy,…
Read the Full Review →SPY KIDS is a James Bond adventure for children, with a Hispanic flavor. For years, Ingrid Cortez has told her children the bedtime story of “The Spies Who Fell in Love.” Her children, Carmen and Juni, don’t suspect that the spies in…
Read the Full Review →MEGAMIND features the title character super villain battling his archenemy super hero, Metro Man. During one of their confrontations, Megamind actually kills Metro Man, and soon Megamind discovers he needs a superhero to battle. So, he sets out to train Hal, a…
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