12 & 12A Cert Movies we have Watched

All of the movie below we have watched as a family. Rating are based on the family consensus on the rating. If someone walked out of the movie we also include that!

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Movie order is based on the family rating of enjoyment!

Edge of Tomorrow

IMDB Rating: 7.9

Our Family Rating: 8.5. SOOOO much fun. Groundhog day with guns...

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) - IMDbDirected by Doug Liman. With Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson. A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Minority Report

IMDB Rating: 7.6

Our Family Rating: 8.5

Minority Report (2002) - IMDbDirected by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow. In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

Interstellar

IMDB Rating: 8.6

Our Family Rating: 8.5 - HUGE chat about the science all the way through the movie...

Interstellar (2014) - IMDbDirected by Christopher Nolan. With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy. A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

Inception

IMDB Rating: 8.8

Our Family Rating: 8.5 - Confusing but fascinating

Inception (2010) - IMDbDirected by Christopher Nolan. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe. A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.

Catch Me If You Can

IMDB Rating: 8.1

Our Family Rating: 8.1. Dicaprio struck a huge cord when it came to forging checks....kids loved it. I'm watching my checkbook as a result....

Catch Me If You Can (2002) - IMDbDirected by Steven Spielberg. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen. A seasoned FBI agent pursues Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully forged millions of dollars' worth of checks while posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and a legal prosecutor.

Gravity

IMDB Rating: 7.7

Our Family Rating: 8.0. Nasa hated it, we loved it. lots of tension.

Gravity (2013) - IMDbDirected by Alfonso Cuarón. With Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen. Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.

The Man who Knew Too Little

IMDB Rating: 6.7

Our Family Rating: 8.0. The slapstick had the kids laughing all the way. Best Bill Murray movie by far.

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) - IMDbDirected by Jon Amiel. With Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Richard Wilson. Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet.

Knives Out

IMDB Rating: 7.9

Our Family Rating: 8.0: Who would have thought 12/14 year olds LOVE who-done-it movies.

Knives Out (2019) - IMDbDirected by Rian Johnson. With Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis. A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

Ocean's Eleven

IMDB Rating: 7.7

Our Family Rating: 8.0: Crime pays if you are cool. The style of the movie as much as the rest was the best (better than the original)

Ocean's Eleven (2001) - IMDbDirected by Steven Soderbergh. With George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon. Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.

Forest Gump

IMDB Rating: 8.8

Our Family Rating: 8.0 Wasn't sure about this one at first, but as it went on he becomes more endearing. Kids missed most of the cultural reference which we happily filled in along the way.

Forrest Gump (1994) - IMDbDirected by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate and other historical events unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Now You See Me

IMDB Rating: 7.1

Our Family Rating: 7.8 LOVED IT. Rocky for the next generation

Real Steel (2011) - IMDbDirected by Shawn Levy. With Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie. In the near future, robot boxing is a top sport. A struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.

The Day after Tomorrow

IMDB Rating: 6.4

Our Family Rating: 7.8 The climate action now! and the American vice president is an idiot narrative won the day and struck a cord with the children. SAVE OUR PLANET!

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - IMDbDirected by Roland Emmerich. With Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok. Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

Total Recall

IMDB Rating: 7.5

Our Family Rating: 7.6 . Action! No brain needed

Total Recall (2012) - IMDbDirected by Len Wiseman. With Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale. A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.

Jumanji: The Next Level

IMDB Rating: 6.7

Our Family Rating: 7.5

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) - IMDbDirected by Jake Kasdan. With Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan. In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game.

Sneakers

IMDB Rating: 7.1

Our Family Rating: 7.5. When robert redford vaults a counter ( misses) and falls off the other side head first, the kids were hooked. Perfect moment to get them to like his character.

Sneakers (1992) - IMDbDirected by Phil Alden Robinson. With Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, Jo Marr. A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.

RED

IMDB Rating: 7.0

Our Family Rating: 7.5. Proving OLD is not boring, we made the kids watch... I'm no Bruce Willis however. Movie was FUN.

RED (2010) - IMDbDirected by Robert Schwentke. With Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker. When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.

Ghostbusters

IMDB Rating: 5.2

Our Family Rating: 7.5. Best lines are for Chris Hemsworth as dumb male secretary.

Ghostbusters (2016) - IMDbDirected by Paul Feig. With Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones. Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

The 'Burbs

IMDB Rating: 6.9

Our Family Rating: 7.5. Hanks before he got serious... Carrie Fisher as a housewife...

The 'Burbs (1989) - IMDbDirected by Joe Dante. With Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman. An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.

Murder on the Orient Express

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Our Family Rating: 7.5. Thought this would be too slow, but a TOTAL HIT. Cinematography was just stunning as a real bonus.

Murder on the Orient Express (2017) - IMDbDirected by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench. When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

Blades of Glory

IMDB Rating: 6.3

Our Family Rating: 7.5. Eh...lots of "on the line" and awkward moments...but still funny.

Blades of Glory (2007) - IMDbDirected by Josh Gordon, Will Speck. With Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett. In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. Presently, however, they've found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.

Now You See Me

IMDB Rating: 7.3

Our Family Rating: 7.5. Fast talking, silly plots and few twists. Nobody browsed their phones during this one.

Now You See Me (2013) - IMDbDirected by Louis Leterrier. With Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson. An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money.

The Hunger Games

IMDB Rating: 7.2

Our Family Rating: 7.5.

The Hunger Games (2012) - IMDbDirected by Gary Ross. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci. Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.

The Hunger Games - Catching Fire

IMDB Rating: 7.5

Our Family Rating: 7.5

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) - IMDbDirected by Francis Lawrence. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem.

Deep Impact

IMDB Rating: 6.2

Our Family Rating: 7.5. "Better than that other one" (referring to armageddon) was the only comment

Deep Impact (1998) - IMDbDirected by Mimi Leder. With Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman. A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.

Oblivion

IMDB Rating: 7.0

Our Family Rating: 7.4

Oblivion (2013) - IMDbDirected by Joseph Kosinski. With Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko. A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.

Pacific Rim

IMDB Rating: 6.9

Our Family Rating: 7.4

Pacific Rim (2013) - IMDbDirected by Guillermo del Toro. With Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day. As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Transcendence

IMDB Rating: 6.3

Our Family Rating: 7.4. A slow moving movie which was a surprise hit with the kids.

Transcendence (2014) - IMDbDirected by Wally Pfister. With Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy. A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

IMDB Rating: 7.3

Our Family Rating: 7.2

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) - IMDbDirected by Guy Ritchie. With Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki. In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

MAZE Runner

IMDB Rating: 6.8

Our Family Rating: 7.2

The Maze Runner (2014) - IMDbDirected by Wes Ball. With Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.

MAZE Runner: The Scorch Trials

IMDB Rating: 6.3

Our Family Rating: 7.1

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) - IMDbDirected by Wes Ball. With Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito. After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.

MAZE Runner: The Death Cure

IMDB Rating: 6.2

Our Family Rating: 7.0

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) - IMDbDirected by Wes Ball. With Dylan O'Brien, Ki Hong Lee, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".

Avatar

IMDB Rating: 7.8

Our Family Rating: 7.2

Avatar (2009) - IMDbDirected by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

War of the Worlds

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Our Family Rating: 7.2

War of the Worlds (2005) - IMDbDirected by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto. As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival in this sci-fi action film.

Multiplicity

IMDB Rating: 6.1

Our Family Rating: 7.0

Multiplicity (1996) - IMDbDirected by Harold Ramis. With Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Zack Duhame, Katie Schlossberg. A man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do is offered the opportunity to have himself duplicated.

Ocean's Twelve

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Our Family Rating: 7.0

Ocean's Twelve (2004) - IMDbDirected by Steven Soderbergh. With George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones. Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001).

In Time

IMDB Rating: 6.7

Our Family Rating: 7.0

In Time (2011) - IMDbDirected by Andrew Niccol. With Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde. In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.

I Robot

IMDB Rating: 7.1

Our Family Rating: 7.0

I, Robot (2004) - IMDbDirected by Alex Proyas. With Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Alan Tudyk. In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.

The Island

IMDB Rating: 6.8

Our Family Rating: 7.0

The Island (2005) - IMDbDirected by Michael Bay. With Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi. A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.

The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1

IMDB Rating: 6.6

Our Family Rating: 7.0

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) - IMDbDirected by Francis Lawrence. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson. Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.

The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Our Family Rating: 7.0

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) - IMDbDirected by Francis Lawrence. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson. Katniss and a team of rebels from District 13 prepare for the final battle that will decide the fate of Panem.

RED

IMDB Rating: 6.6

Our Family Rating: 7.0

RED 2 (2013) - IMDbDirected by Dean Parisot. With Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins. Retired CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

Now You See Me 2

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Our Family Rating: 6.9

Now You See Me 2 (2016) - IMDbDirected by Jon M. Chu. With Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco. The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet.

Bruce Almighty

IMDB Rating: 6.8

Our Family Rating: 6.6

Bruce Almighty (2003) - IMDbDirected by Tom Shadyac. With Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall. A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.

Tower Heist

IMDB Rating: 6.2

Our Family Rating: 6.5

Tower Heist (2011) - IMDbDirected by Brett Ratner. With Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda. When a group of hard-working guys find out they've fallen victim to their wealthy employer's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.

Greyhound

IMDB Rating: 7.0

Our Family Rating: 6.3. "just a lot of random numbers were called out during the movie" BORING! (said the 12 year old)

Greyhound (2020) - IMDbDirected by Aaron Schneider. With Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Shue, Stephen Graham, Matt Helm. Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.

Armageddon

IMDB Rating: 6.7

Our Family Rating: 6.2. Nobody convinced this even made sense. But explosions helped.

Armageddon (1998) - IMDbDirected by Michael Bay. With Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler. After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

IMDB Rating: 5.5

Our Family Rating: 6.2

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) - IMDbDirected by Scott Derrickson. With Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith. A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

IMDB Rating: 5.5

Our Family Rating: 6.0. What ? How can they not like this? Too much bad CGI and a plot that didn't work apparently.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - IMDbDirected by Stephen Norrington. With Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng. In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

Hellboy

IMDB Rating: 6.8

Our Family Rating: 6.0

Hellboy (2004) - IMDbDirected by Guillermo del Toro. With Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, John Hurt. A demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.

Tomb Raider

IMDB Rating: 5.8

Our Family Rating: 5.5. Awful, Awful, Awful Dumb as hell and a plot to follow.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) - IMDbDirected by Simon West. With Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor. Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.