Get ready for a cinematic adventure! We’re here to spill the popcorn on the most exciting movies hitting the big screen this summer. So grab your jumbo-sized juices and snuggle up with your little movie enthusiasts to get this movie night playlist started!
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales is back for the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga, an epic journey that will take Brooklyn’s resident Spider-Man across the Multiverse to team up with Gwen Stacy and a fresh group of Spider-People in order to take on a villain eviler than anything they have ever faced.
Rated PG, Release Date: June 2nd, 2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
*parental guidance for children under the age of 13
Returning to the big screen for more action, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ’90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a completely new Transformer faction — the Maximals — to the ongoing battle on Earth between Autobots and Decepticons. Will the Autobots be able to defend Earth from danger?
Rated PG-13*, Release Date: June 9th, 2023
Elemental
Were your kiddos fans of the movie Inside Out? Then Elemental might be your watchlist. “Elemental,” a brand-new, original feature film from Disney and Pixar, is set in Element City, where citizens of the elements of fire, water, land, and air coexist. Ember, a fierce, witty, and fiery young woman (literally, she’s an actual flame), whose friendship with Wade, a fun, sentimental, go-with-the-flow (an actual water drop) person, challenges her views about the world they live in.
Rated PG, Release Date: June 16th, 2023
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby Gillman, a socially awkward high school student, is looking for where she fits in. Her over-protective supermom isn’t helping her case either! But when she breaks her mother’s rule and goes into the water, she’s faced with a major problem: the school’s new girl, Chelsea, is a mermaid. Ruby must embrace her destiny and protect those she loves. Can she stop the power-hungry mermaids from tearing her world apart? Maybe her secret family history will help her.
Rated PG, Release Date: June 30th, 2023
Barbie
*parental guidance for children under the age of 13
She’s everyone’s favorite iconic doll come to life… Welcome to Barbie Land! To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you’re a Ken. This colorful Barbie movie might be more suitable for older children. If you’re looking for Barbie movies for younger kiddos, we recommend any of the animated Barbie movies.
Rated PG-13*, Release Date: July 21st, 2023
Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie
The first feature film based on the globally beloved Miraculous franchise, Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie follows ordinary teenager Marinette, whose life in Paris goes superhuman when she becomes Ladybug. Bestowed with magical powers of creation, Ladybug must unite with her opposite, Cat Noir, to save Paris as a new villain unleashes chaos unto the city.
Rated TV-Y7, Streaming on Netflix: July 28th, 2023
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Back in another action-packed film are your favorite crime-fighting turtle brothers. Follow the heroes in a half shell as they face a new challenge: fitting in as normal teenagers in New York City while still working as heroes. When an army of mutants is unleashed upon them, they find out how hard being normal is.
Release Date: August 2nd, 2023
The Monkey King
A charming monkey and his magical fighting stick battle 100 demons, an oddball Dragon King, and monkey’s greatest enemy of all—himself—in the action-packed family comedy, The Monkey King. Along the journey, he is confronted by a young village girl who questions his self-centered attitude and demonstrates to him how even the smallest stone may have a significant impact on the globe.
Rated TV-Y7, Streaming on Netflix: August 18th, 2023
