Childrens Film

My understanding of a Children's Film is that it is a film aimed predominantly for children, but also to appeal to adults such as parents, who would most likely buy the film for the children or take them to see it. Obvious examples of childrens films would be Disney films such as Finding Nemo. You can tell that this is a childrens film as it has happy faces on the characters, is it animated, has bright colours, and you can also tell that it has talking animals as well. These features are used to appeal to children, like the bright colours will stand out and the animals look fun and happy. It is a successful childrens film because of these features. As opposed to a film like Alien which is has a dark, mysterious and mildly scary cover, it is obvious it is not aimed at children and parents would most definintely not allow their young child to watch it.