Kid and Teen Friendly Movies to Watch in Cinemas In 2025
We always look forward to watching the latest movies in cinemas!
Check out our list of current and upcoming movies in Australia for 2025/2026 and keep checking back as we’ll be adding new titles regularly! Missed a movie that came out in 2024?
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ELEPHANTS 3D (REVIEWED) - IMAX
Synopsis: Elephants 3D will be presented in IMAX 4K LASER DIGITAL
Elephants are symbols of strength, power and wisdom, and they have captured our imaginations for centuries. Elephants 3D is an epic journey across Africa’s Namib Desert, getting up close and personal with the largest land mammals on the planet. Making one of the world’s oldest desert home, the desert elephants are one of nature’s most inspiring examples of survival and adaptation. Follow the journey of an elephant baby, Littlefoot, as she learns how to elephant from her elephant family, led by a wise Matriarch. Brave the desert’s elements and use some elephant superpowers, from finding underground aquifers to foreseeing sandstorms. The film will reveal the hidden magic of a seemingly otherworldly and formidable landscape, where a cast of iconic animals from giraffes, monkeys to lions form a unique canvas of life.
Release Date: 20th June 2025
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published
Duration: 45 minutes
Film Production Company: K2 Studios
F1
Synopsis: Follows a Formula One driver who comes out of retirement to mentor and team with a younger driver.
Release Date: 26th June 2025
Rating: M (Coarse language)
Duration: 155 minutes
Film Production Company: Warners Bros
JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH
Synopsis: Five years post-Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
Release Date: 3rd July 2025
Rating: M (Scenes of threat and peril)
Duration: 133 minutes
Film Production Company: Universal Pictures Australia
SMURFS (REVIEWED)
Synopsis: When Papa Smurf (John Goodman) is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette (Rihanna) leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.
SMURFS features an all-star voice cast including Rihanna, James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña with Kurt Russell and John Goodman.
Release Date: 5th July 2025
Rating: PG (Very mild themes, coarse language and some scenes may scare very young children)
Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Film Production Company: Paramount Pictures
SUPERMAN
Synopsis: Follows the titular superhero as he reconciles his heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way in a world that views this as old-fashioned.
Release Date: 10th July 2025
Rating: M (Science Fiction Themes and Violence)
Duration: 130 minutes
Film Production Company: Warner Bros
THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
Synopsis: One of Marvel's most iconic families makes it to the big screen: the Fantastic Four.
Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro- futuristic world, Marvel Studios' "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" introduces Marvel's First Family-Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they face their most daunting challenge yet.
Release Date: 24th July 2025
Rating: PG (Mild science fiction themes, violence and coarse language)
Duration: 114 minutes
Film Production Company: Disney
THE FRIEND
Synopsis: Starring Oscar nominees Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, alongside Bing the Great Dane, THE FRIEND is an unexpected and heartwarming journey through love, friendship, grief.
Release Date: 31st July 2025
Rating: M (Mature themes, suicide references and coarse language)
Duration: 120 minutes
Film Production Company: Maslow
BRIDE HARD
Synopsis: When a mercenary group takes a lavish wedding hostage, they have no idea what they are in for as the Maid of Honor is actually a secret agent ready to rain hell-fire upon anyone who would ruin her best friend's wedding.
Release Date: 31st July 2025
Rating: M (Mature themes, violence, coarse language and sexual references)
Duration: 105 minutes
Film Production Company: Studio Canal
FREAKIER FRIDAY
Synopsis: Anna Coleman and her mother Tess are in another predicament when they swap bodies with Anna's daughter. Now it's up to the three to reverse the body swap.
“Freakier Friday,” a sequel to the beloved 2003 film with a multigenerational twist starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, will be released in Australian and New Zealand cinemas in 2025. In the film, Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman. The story picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her.
Release Date: 7th August 2025
Rating: PG (Mild coarse language)
Duration: 111 minutes
Film Production Company: Disney
FUTURE COUNCIL
Synopsis: Damon Gameau (2040, That Sugar Film) takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to challenge powerful leaders and find solutions to our greatest ecological challenges. This is a coming - of - age journey that dares to imagine a brighter future.
Release Date: 7th Aug 2025
Rating: PG (Very mild themes)
Duration: 81 minutes
Film Production Company: Madman
THE NAKED GUN
Synopsis: Follows the misadventures of Detective Frank Drebin's son, Frank Drebin jr. A sequel to "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult".
It takes a very particular set of skills to lead Police Squad—and even try to save the world. Liam Neeson takes up the badge as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. in The Naked Gun, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and produced by Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Family Guy). The case brings together a wild cast including Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu and Danny Huston.
Release Date: 21st August 2025
Rating: M (Crude humour, comedic violence, coarse language and sexual references)
Duration: 85 minutes
Film Production Company: Paramount Pictures
HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL (REVIEWED)
Synopsis: Welcome to Westerberg High, where Veronica Sawyer is just another one of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. Until JD shows up – the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that everyone fears being a nobody, but it's murder being a somebody...
Release Date: 4th September 2025
Rating: MA 15+ (strong language, intense adult themes, alcohol and drug use, and graphic scenes involving gunshots.)
Duration: 135 minutes
Film Production Company: Icon Film
SKETCH
Synopsis: When a young girls drawings escape her sketchbook, her small town spirals into chaos. As these scribbled monsters wreak havoc, its up to her family to come together, face the madness, and somehow save the day.
Release Date: 11th September 2025
Rating: PG (Mild themes, fantasy violence and coarse language)
Duration: 92 minutes
Film Production Company: Angel Studios
THE BAD GUYS 2
Synopsis: The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do 'one last job'.
The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do 'one last job' by an all-female squad of criminals.Release Date: 18th September 2025
Rating: PG
Duration: To be advised
Film Production Company: Dreamworks Animation
PETS ON THE TRAIN
Synopsis: When a train unexpectedly starts up, taking only pets with it, the animals discover that Hans, a badger with a grudge is behind it all. While the crash seems inevitable, the animals can count on Falcon, a roguish Raccoon who will do anything to save them.
Release Date: 18th September 2025
Rating: PG (action/peril and some rude humor)
Duration: 99 minutes
Film Production Company: Viva productions
KANGAROO (REVIEWED)
Synopsis: Kangaroo is a heartwarming family comedy that follows former TV star Chris Masterman, who finds himself stranded in a remote Outback town near Alice Springs.
Our thoughts: “This heartwarming Australian family film is all about friendship, belonging, and a love for our incredible wildlife, set against the breathtaking Red Centre landscapes of Alice Springs.”
Release Date: 18th September 2025
Rating: PG (Mild themes and violence)
Duration: 107 minutes
Film Production Company: Studio Canal
AUSTRALIA 3D - IMAX
Synopsis: Australia 3D will be presented in IMAX 4K LASER DIGITAL. EXCLUSIVELY IN IMAX! Australia 3D: The Wild Continent carries its audience through the wildest and most beautiful landscapes in Australia in search of the hidden stories that make this continent unique. Discover flora and fauna that has evolved in splendid isolation, explore ancient landscapes sculpted by great geological forces, and learn what it means to care for Country from traditional custodians of the land.
Release Date: 18th September 2025 (early previews on 12th September)
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published
Duration: To be advised
Film Production Company: Centre des sciences de Montréal Science Centre
GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE: THE MOVIE
Synopsis: Gabby and Grandma Gigi's road trip takes an unexpected turn when Gabby's prized dollhouse ends up with eccentric cat lady Vera.
Gabby and Grandma Gigi's road trip takes an unexpected turn when Gabby's prized dollhouse ends up with eccentric cat lady Vera. Gabby embarks on a adventure to reunite the Gabby Cats and retrieve her beloved dollhouse before it's too late.
Release Date: 27th September 2025
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published
Duration: To be advised
Film Production Company: Universal Pictures
TRONS: ARES
Synopsis: “TRON: Ares” follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.
Release Date: 9th October 2025
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published - mature themes
Duration: 100 minutes
Film Production Company: Disney
WICKED FOR GOOD
Synopsis: Follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation.
Release Date: 20th Nov 2025
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published
Duration: To be advised
Film Production Company: Universal Pictures
ZOOTOPIA 2
Synopsis: Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde return on a thrilling new adventure as they tackle a perplexing crime threatening the city in Zootopia 2. Building on the success of the first movie, this sequel promises a wild ride filled with suspense and excitement.
Release Date: 27th Nov 2025
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published
Duration: To be advised
Film Production Company: Disney
ELLA MCCAY
Synopsis: The film will follow an idealistic young politician who juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state's longtime incumbent governor.
Release Date: 11th December 2025
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published
Duration: To be advised
Film Production Company: 20th Century Studios
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
Synopsis: Avatar: Fire & Ash is the third installment in James Cameron’s groundbreaking sci-fi franchise. Set years after the events of Avatar: The Way of Water, this new installment dives into the heart of Pandora’s most volatile and unforgiving biome — a vast volcanic region where survival depends on more than strength… it demands fire.
Release Date: 18th December 2025
Rating: CTC - (Check The Classification) once published
Duration: To be advised
Film Production Company: 20th Century Studios
THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS
Synopsis: SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom friends set sail in their biggest, all-new, can’t miss cinematic event ever…The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman – a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate – on a seafaring comedy-adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.
Release Date: 26th Dec 2025
Rating: TBC
Duration: TBC
Film Production Company: Paramount Pictures
GOAT
Synopsis: From Sony Pictures Animation, the studio behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, comes GOAT, an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world. The story follows Will, a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will’s new teammates aren’t thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but Will is determined to revolutionise the sport and prove once and for all that “smalls can ball!”.
Release Date: 12th Feb 2026
Rating: TBC
Duration: TBC
Film Production Company: Sony Pictures
HOPPERS
Synopsis: An animal lover seizes an opportunity to use technology that places her consciousness into a robotic beaver, uncovering mysteries within the animal world.
Release Date: 5th Mar 2026
Rating: TBC
Duration: TBC
Film Production Company: Disney
THE CAT IN THE HAT
Synopsis: Meet the Cat in the Hat you don’t know! In the wonderfully whimsical tradition of Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat comes to the big screen in his animated theatrical feature film debut, an all-new, epic adventure with an edge, where mischief, magic and mayhem reign supreme. Doing what he does best, the Cat—voiced by Bill Hader—spreads joy to kids in his hilarious, signature and singularly irreverent way, transporting them and audiences on a fantastical journey through a world they’ve never seen before.
Release Date: 19th Mar 2026
Rating: TBC
Duration: TBC
Film Production Company: Warners Bros