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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Amazing
Absolutely love this film. I just don't understand the hate. We finally get to see the Jedi at the height of their powers and it has the BEST lightsaber fight in all the films. I loved the original Star Wars as a kid and it was so fantastic to take my two young children (4 and 5) to see this when it came out and we all thought it was amazing. They are now in their twenties and still love Star Wars especially Episode I because it was their first one at the cinema.
Happy Feet (2006)
Far too long
My kids (aged 6, 9, 11 and 12) were all bored by this. It took a short film story and tried to string it out to a feature length film. No amount of excellent animation can make up for that.
Les Misérables (2018)
A missed opportunity
This could and should have been great. So many adaptations miss out a lot of the story and this series included lots of events in the novel which are not normally shown, which was great to see. The cast were well chosen, the acting was generally very good, as were the sets, the pacing and the score.
However it was ruined by changing the story to have Valjean fire Fantine whereas the book is quite clear that he knew nothing of it. I know that a film or tv adaption will change certain things and am ok with that, but this is totally against Valjean's character at this point in the story and spoils the whole series.