Best New Family Movies 2021: What to Watch with the Kids This Summer
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With the onset of summer, the usual family routine changes. The kids are at home, and whether you're working remotely or not, that means movie viewing rates are also on the rise.
This is also a good time to watch a good family movie with the little ones, especially one that the older ones will also enjoy.
Streaming platforms catalogs are gradually starting to increase the amount of content to please the whole family, and we, in turn, have reviewed and sorted the best movies for family viewing.
Today at PortalVirtualReality we bring you a few recent family movies you can enjoy with your kids this summer if you subscribe to Netflix, HBO or Amazon Prime videos .
MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES
- Year : 2021
- Duration : 113 minutes
- Director Story by: Michael Rianda
- Genre : Animation and fantasy
- Platform : Netflix
The animation genre will be high on our list. In this 2021, Netflix presented us with one of the most entertaining films - "Mitchells against the machines" , a film produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller that has it all.
Plot
Teenage girl Kathy Mitchell has always believed that her parents do not understand her hobbies - making strange films about everything around, including about a police pug with a family pet in the title role. Therefore, when she entered a film school on the other side of the country, happiness knew no bounds. Katie could not wait until she finally got on a plane and flew to people who understood her, but the head of the family decided in his own way. Daddy Mitchell decided to organize a family trip, and now Katie will have to get to the university by car in the company of her parents, her younger brother and a pug. And it should have happened that in the midst of their journey, artificial intelligence suddenly starts an uprising of machines.
DETECTIVE PIKACHU
- Year : 2019
- Duration : 105 minutes
- Director Story by: Rob Letterman
- Genre : action, comedy, adventure
- Platform :HBO
One of the few movies to break the curse of adapting video games to the big screen in real action.
Detective Pikachu takes us to the world of Pokemon with the help of film with a vague noir tinge and breathtaking recreations of the most iconic Pokémon .
Plot
The story begins with the mysterious disappearance of private detective Harry Goodman, which will be investigated by his 21-year-old son Tim. He will be assisted in the investigation by his father's former partner, the chatty detective Pikachu, who is a mystery even to himself. After discovering that they are somehow fantastically able to communicate with each other, Tim and Pikachu set off to find clues through the neon streets of Ryme City, a modern sprawling metropolis where humans and Pokémon live side by side. The pair meet a wide variety of Pokémon and uncover a terrible plot that could destroy this peaceful coexistence and become a threat to the entire Pokémon universe.
NEXT GENERATION
- Year : 2018
- Duration : 105 minutes
- Directed by Story by: Joe Xander & Kevin R. Adams
- Genre : Animation, Action, Comedy
- Platform : Netflix
Netflix loves stories about technological revolutions against humanity.
It is a the story of a robot who participates in a secret project but becomes a girl's best friend .
What happens is that the girl in question hates robots due to an event in her past, which will take a lot of work to build trust between them.
Meanwhile, Machiavelli's plan is being implemented, which can doom humanity to death.
SONIC IN THE MOVIE
- Year : 2020
- Duration : 99 minutes
- Director Story by: Jeff Fowler
- Genre : action, comedy, adventure
- Platform : Amazon Prime Video
Following in the footsteps of the aforementioned Detective Pikachu, SEGA's most famous mascot wasn't going to be left in the shadows.
Sonic: The Movie brought the blue hedgehog to the big screen with astonishing speed, achieving great success.
The machinations of Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) will make the Earth an unsafe place for Sonic, who had to escape from his planet. Fortunately, he will have allies to help him.
SPIDER-MAN: THROUGH THE UNIVERSE
- Year : 2018
- Duration : 117 minutes
- Directed by Cast: Bob Persichetti, Rodney Rothman and Peter Ramsey
- Genre : Action & Adventure
- Platform : Amazon Prime Video
We are probably talking about one of the best comic book movies of all time .
Spiderman: Through the Universes introduces Miles Morales, a boy from New York who will be turned into Spider-Man.
But he won't be alone, different versions of the Marvel crawler from other realities will join Miles Morales to help him on his mission.
What is your mission? Stop the Kingpin's machinations before it's too late for his reality... and for others.
DIGIMON ADVENTURE: LAST EVOLUTION
- Year : 2020
- Duration : 94 minutes
- Director Story by: Tomohisa Taguchi
- Genre : Anime, Action, Adventure
- Platform : Amazon Prime Video
Though " Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna" is a film that will appeal to the youngest, it is clearly aimed at the parents of many of them.
The Chosen Children have grown up and each lead their own lives as they see fit, but the incident brings them back to battle in the digital world.
However, the terrible truth is revealed: as adults, the Digimon of the Chosen Children are doomed to disappear .
WILD ANCESTORS
- Year : 2018
- Duration : 89 minutes
- Director Story by: Nick Park
- Genre : Stop motion animation and adventure.
- Platform :HBO
Stop-motion animated films have a special charm.
wild ancestors takes us back to the Stone Age to meet Dag and his friendly boar Hognob.
The two will join the tribe to protect the valley they live in from an outside threat that could end their way of life. In order to compete in the valley, they must participate in an ancient sport: "football . »
PETER RABBIT
- Year : 2018
- Duration : 93 minutes
- Director Story by: Will Gluck
- Genre : Animation, fantasy and adventure
- Platform : Amazon Prime Video
Adventures on farms where mischievous animals lived have always been charming.
Peter Rabbit refreshed this experience for us in 2018 with his confrontation with Mr. McGregor.
Peter's "family" will help him win over Bea, an animal lover who can make life on the farm so much easier.
MAGIC DRAGON
- Year : 2021
- Duration : 99 minutes
- Director Story by: Chris Appelhans
- Genre : Animation, fantasy and comedy
- Platform : Netflix
The life of a young man of humble origins, Dean, was forever changed when he found a lamp with which he could summon a wish-granting dragon.
Long (dragon) seems to be very obsessed with fulfilling trivial desires related to power and wealth.
Dean will discover the secret of Long's nature and must weigh how to deal with his desires as he tries to reconnect with his childhood passion.
This concludes our review of some of the the best latest movies you can watch as a family with kids. Naturally, we suggest expanding the list with a comment section, suggesting any movie that we didn't include.