The Walt Disney Company 90s Family Movies

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The Disney Movie You Were Obsessed With in Kindergarten

Everybody watched their favorite on a loop when they were five, right?

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We're not the first ones to point out how remarkably consistent Disney has been as a movie studio. Though its output ebbs and flows, the film studio has basically put out at least one family movie a year for decades. What other company can claim to have done the same?

It's true: Every kid came up through a different era of the Disney ranks, and there is a special place in each of our hearts for the old Disney movie we first saw when we were around five years old — the first time we experienced true Disney magic. Often, the Disney movie you first saw was the one you watched and re-watched ad nauseam. Sometimes it was streamed on an endless loop, sometimes it was viewed on a worn-out DVD, and other times it was kept on a VHS tape that was stored in one of those puffy clamshell boxes, but you always ran straight to it on any rainy weekend or sick day home from school.

So, what was the Disney movie you were obsessed with when you were that age? We looked back at the last four decades of Disney movies to find the top contenders. Did your favorite make the list?

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The Black Hole (1979)

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Disney doesn't do too many live-action, sci-fi films anymore, but old-school fans have this trippy outer-space seared into their brains.

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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

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Sure, Lightning McQueen is cool and all, but OG Disney followers know that Herbie was the best of the mischievous Disney cars.

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The Fox and the Hound (1981)

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Kindergarten is right at the age when kids are excited to have a BFF. For them, there is nothing more perfect than this movie about a pair of animals who strike up an unlikely friendship.

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Tron (1982)

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Kids who were budding video-game geeks were astonished to be taken inside a mainframe, where a world of bright colors and geometric shapes awaited them. TBH, even though video games look like movies now, the world of Tron still looks cool.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

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Tiger Town (1984)

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Technically, this was a made-for-TV movie, but if you were a sports fan in the early '80s you would totally get the story of a young Detroit Tigers fan who believed the team would only win if he were in the stadium, watching the game in person. To them, it was fact, not superstition.

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Return to Oz (1985)

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Dorothy takes a trip back to Oz for a darker, more intense adventure than her first trip — if you were the right age at the time, this might've been your first scary movie.

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The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

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This movie is an exciting mystery, to be solved then none other than Basil of Baker Street — who just so happens to be a mouse.

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Benji the Hunted (1987)

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Kindergarteners were amazed that a real dog — not an animated dog — could survive in the wilderness the way Benji did.

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Oliver and Company (1988)

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Kids too young for the real Oliver Twist story love this cuddly version starring animals — including a groovy Dodger played by Billy Joel.

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The Little Mermaid (1989)

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This is the first Disney animated film to feature songs by the legendary Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, redefining the Disney song as we know it. Who doesn't know all the words to "Under the Sea?"

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The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

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Beauty and the Beast (1991)

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Little kids weren't the only ones enthralled with Beauty and the Beast when it came out — it got an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

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Aladdin (1992)

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If you were a kid in the '90s, Robin Williams's performance as the genie in this movie was the absolute height of comedy.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

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Quasimodo has never been so relatable — and Frollo has never been so scary — than in Disney's take on Victor Hugo.

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Hercules (1997)

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In addition to his heroic deeds, Hercules felt distinct among Disney animated movies because of his Al Hirschfeld-inspired design.

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Mulan (1998)

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Mulan disguises herself as a man so she can be a great warrior, offering an antidote to anyone suffering from princess fatigue.

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Tarzan (1999)

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There's a reason that movies keep returning to the Tarzan story over and over — it's timeless excitement.

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The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

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Disney started this prince-and-the-pauper riff as a grand epic like The Lion King. Eventually, they scrapped what they had and turned it into an all-out comedy, much to the delight of the kids entering school that year.

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

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Disney fans who prefer the sci-fi of Tron and The Black Hole were swept away with this animated action/adventure.

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Lilo and Stitch (2002)

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Another story about what makes a family, Lilo and Stitch is about a girl who adopts and ill-behaved alien as a pet. Parents may be moved by how her love makes him a little less wild, but kids love the marauding Stitch better. (And with good reason — he's hilarious.)

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Holes (2003)

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Based on the beloved novel by Louis Sachar, Holes tells the story of a family curse that gets unraveled through a mystery-like series of twists and revelations, making it a roller coaster to watch. Bonus for the '00s kids: It starred Shia LeBoeuf, who everyone knew at the time as "Louis from Even Stevens."

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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

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By following the ongoing story of Mia Thermopolis, kids could vicariously live the life of a normal girl who is plucked from obscurity, turned into a royal, and becomes ruler of her kingdom. Mia is one of the most empowering princesses on the list.

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Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)

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All kids love spending time with the Bear of Very Little Brain. In this movie a "heffalump" named Lumpy wanders into Pooh's corner of the Hundred Acre Wood, and Pooh and his friends have to figure out what to do about it.

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Cars (2006)

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Raise your hand if you had a kindergartener with 1,000 Lightning McQueen toys — ka-chow!

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Enchanted (2007)

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Enchanted is about what would happen if a Disney princess were transported to real-world New York, and the fish-out-of-water comedy that results really hits home for any princess fan.

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Wall-E (2008)

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Wall-E is a robot with a mission to clean up the Earth who accidentally spreads an environmental message to all humans. In addition to connecting to the movie's mission, kids find Wall-E so darn cute for a hunk of metal, who spends the beginning of the movie working solo in a near-wordless sequence that little kids can easily understand.

Marisa LaScala Parenting & Relationships Editor Marisa LaScala covers all things parenting, from the postpartum period through empty nests, for GoodHousekeeping.com; she previously wrote about motherhood for Parents and Working Mother.

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The Walt Disney Company 90s Family Movies

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