Rather than delving into the memorable movies of my childhood - the terrors of The Dark Crystal, the excitement of The Empire Strikes Back - I'm going to cheat a little here.
Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox is the film I'd most like families to enjoy together out of anything this side of The Force Awakens (and substantially less scary).
The pic includes some of my favourite memories of childhood - stop-motion animation; talking animals; the great Roald Dahl - but does so with a modern sensibility (albeit through the same melancholic, nostalgic lens as Anderson's live-action films).
Fantastic Mr. Fox also benefits from elements I love as an adult moviegoer. It's the idea of an auteur that may have seemed crazy on paper, and even more difficult to execute, when second (or even sadder, third) rate CGI drivel is churned out of servers the world over. And it brings the oddball artistic sensibilities and compulsively-conveyed themes of the OCD Anderson to bear on a family favourite much more successfully than Spike Jonze managed to do with Where The Wild Things Are.
But mostly, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a magnificent family film for some pretty simple reasons - it's the fun, adventurous and sometimes frightening tale of an extended family of adorably cute woodland creatures.
