The best kids' movies on Amazon Prime Video in the US

This 13-episode series starring your favorite rolly-polly Kung Fu master is full of good, silly fun. Follow four young pandas as they seek to absorb the energy of the ancient martial art of Kung Fu, and learn from Dragon Master Po. Ages 6 and up.

Don’t judge a book by its cover, nor an ogre by his green skin. In this modern animated classic, the titular big-hearted beast with the exaggerated Scottish brogue (courtesy of Mike Myers) attempts to woo a beautiful princess (Cameron Diaz) who is way out of his league...or  so he thinks. Rated PG.

It’s 1977 and young Christmas Flint (McKenna Grace) is obsessed with the idea of going into space – but she’ll settle for having her voice on a record traveling aboard the Voyager space probe. And wouldn’t you know it? The grand prize of the upcoming Birdie Scout talent show presents just such an opportunity. Kids will love the quirky underdog tale and its period details, along with a typically stellar performance from Viola Davis as the stern-but-caring troop leader, will keep parents entertained as well. Rated PG. 

Even in the era of all-CGI-everything, Steven Spielberg’s action-adventure blockbuster is an ageless wonder. Indoctrinate the kids now before the fifth instalment drops this summer. Rated PG.

In this first instalment of the ongoing cartoon franchise, the annual monster’s ball at an exclusive resort is thrown out of whack when a regular human invades the proceedings and falls in love with a 118-year-old mummy, voiced by Selena Gomez. Who can blame him? Rated PG.

The lil’ blue blur of fur is back – along with Jim Carrey as the villainous, thickly mustachioed Dr Robotnik – in this sequel to the high-speed video game adaptation. And this time, he’s introducing a few new friends… and enemies: his foxy buddy Tails and Knuckles, the evil echidna voiced by Idris Elba. Rated PG. 

A widowed English housecleaner in the 1950s desperately desires a couture Dior dress, and after saving every penny she can scrape up, finally heads off to Paris to buy it. Of course, that’s just the beginning of this very charming story, starring a winningly endearing Lesley Manville. Rated PG. 

Sure, it’s a Christmas movie – the Christmas movie, really – but the message contained in this pan-generational family classic is worth absorbing any time of year. Rated PG.

Jack Black dons spandex tights – and a caterpillar mustache – to play a roly-poly orphan who enters the wild world of lucha libre in order to save the monastery that raised him. Rated PG.

A superhero movie set in everyday suburbia, this charming action-comedy stars Owen Wilson as a guardian of the galaxy named, well, the Guard, who keeps his true identity hidden from everyone, including his own son – until his kid uncovers his secret lair beneath their house. Rated PG.

In this 21st century musical update of the classic fairy tale, singer Camila Cabello steps into the glass slipper of the poor, starry-eyed orphan who dreams of being swept away from her abusive family by a hunky prince, played by Nicholas Galitzine. Also starring the great Billy Porter as the Fairy Godmother. Rated PG.

The honeymoon is over for Shrek and Fiona. Now it’s time to meet the parents, who are unaware their daughter’s new hubby is a giant green ogre. Awkward! Rated PG.

No, not the one with MC Hammer doing the theme song, but the sequel to the computer animated version that came out in 2019. In this one, the spooky-ooky brood is forced to leave its cobweb-strewn manor and head out on a roadtrip across America. Rated PG.

Peter Sellers pratfalls all over the place as the blundering Inspector Clouseau in this fifth entry in the classic Pink Panther series. Clouseau’s former colleague turned enemy, Inspector Dreyfus, is out of the madhouse and back on his mission to finish off Clouseau once and for all. Rated PG.

The humongous crimson canine of the iconic kids’ book series makes his live-action film debut. True to form, he’s big, red and causing quite a bit of trouble as he gets loose in the Big Apple. Hasn’t that city suffered enough? Rated PG.

Everyone’s favorite multidimensional Technicolor Shetlands are here to save the world – well, their world – from the forces of evil. Emily Blunt, Liev Schreiber, Michael Peña, Sia, Taye Diggs and Zoe Saldaña lend their voices to this candy-coloured musical adventure. Rated PG.

A tough-guy CIA agent named JJ (Dave Bautista, the former professional wrestler and six-time world champion) is tasked to watch over a family with a particularly precocious nine-year-old girl named Sophie (Chloe Coleman). Spoiler alert: He’s no match for her. Rated PG-13.

Back in the early ’90s, who would have thought Ice Cube would end up on a list of kids movies? In this spinoff of the 2005 road comedy Are We There Yet?, Cube reprises his role as beleaguered dad Nick Persons, now with an even more ambitious project on his hands: building his dream house. Rated PG.

After 10 years of dormancy, The Pink Panther film franchise gets a reboot, this time starring Roberto Benigni as the son of the perpetually bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who appears to have inherited his father’s investigative instincts – and his clumsiness. Rated PG.