Kids and family movies
Family and kids movies showing in cinemas in Auckland, New Zealand in 2024. Watch the trailers for new and upcoming kid friendly and family movies.
MOVIES SHOWING NOW IN AUCKLAND
Movies now playing in New Zealand cinemas. Watch the trailers of all the new children and family movies to see on the big screens now and coming soon to cinemas.
The Mountain
Showing Now
Release date: 28 March 2024
Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Māori culture, is determined to fulfil her mission of connecting with her mountain in the hope they can heal her from the cancer she battles. Along the way she meets some misfits and new kids in town – Mallory, hoping to find friends, any kind of friends – and Bronco who claims to be a runaway from his dad who is too busy to notice him. As they make their way through the difficult “off the beaten track” route, they learn the true spirit of adventure and the magic of friendship.
Rating: PG
Kung Fu Panda 4
Showing Now
Release date: 28 March 2024
Follow Po on his wide-eyed adventures in ancient China, whose love of kung fu is matched only by an insatiable appetite.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 94 mins
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Showing Now
Release date: 28 March 2024
A highly anticipated movie that brings back together two of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.
Rating: M
Running Time: 115 mins
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Showing Now
Release date: 21 March 2024
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 115 mins
The Jungle Bunch Tour
Showing now
Release date: 18 January 2024
Who do you call to help when a mysterious supervillain covers the jungle with pink foam that explodes on contact with water? The Jungle Bunch!
Duration: 88 mins
Rating: TBC
Mean Girls
Showing now
Release date: 18 January 2024
From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, MEAN GIRLS. New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.
Duration: 113 mins
Rating: M
Wonka
Showing now
Release date: 14 December 2023
Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book. The story will focus specifically on a young Willy Wonka and how he met the Oompa-Loompas on one of his earliest adventures.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 116 mins
Wish
Showing now
Release date: 26 December 2023
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Wish” is an all-new musical-comedy welcoming audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 95 mins
Migration
Showing now
Release date: 26 December 2023
The Mallard family is in a bit of rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom is eager to shake things up.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 96 mins
Next Goal Wins
Showing now
Release date: 30 November 2023
Directed by Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi, Next Goal Wins follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around in this heartfelt underdog comedy.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 104 mins.
Trolls Band Together
Showing now
Release date: 30 November 2023
After true friendship and relentless flirting, Poppy and Branch are now officially, finally, a couple! As they grow closer, Poppy discovers that Branch has a secret past.
Rating: G
Running Time: 91 mins.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Showing now
Release date: 15 November 2023
Return to The Hunger Games, with Lionsgate’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird , the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favour. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy Gray’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.
Rating: M – Drug use and violence
Running Time: 156 mins.
The Marvels
Showing now
Release date: 8 November 2023
Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence.
Rating: M due to violence
Running Time: 105 mins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Showing now
Release date: 14 September 2023
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
Rating: PG
Duration: 99 mins
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Showing now
Release date: 21 September 2023
A magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City, and gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups.
Rating: G
Duration: 88 mins
Barbie
In cinemas now
Release date: July 2023
Eccentric and individualistic, Barbie is exiled from Barbieland because of her imperfections. When her home world is in peril, Barbie returns.
Rating: PG
Running time: 114 mins
Haunted Mansion
In cinemas now
Release date: Aug 2023
A single mom hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian to help exorcise their newly bought mansion; after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.
Rating: PG
Running time: 122 mins
The Little Mermaid
In cinemas now
Release date: May 2023
The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.
Rating: PG
Running time: 135 mins
Elemental
In Cinemas now
Release date: June 2023
Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
Rating: PG
Running time: 109 mins.
Cats in the Museum
In cinemas now
Release date: 29 June 2023
A young cat named Vincent, in the company of Maurice the mouse, escapes from the flood in an old harpsichord, which is picked up by sailors and sent to St. Petersburg, where it ends up in the Hermitage. There, Vincent meets an elite feline squad that has been protecting artwork from mice and other pests for centuries. Vincent dreams of finding a real cat family, but does not want to lose his friend Maurice, who saved his life. Vincent has to hide a friend, who also has one “little weakness” – Maurice loves to gnaw on masterpieces of painting. The situation becomes even more complicated when one of the greatest paintings of mankind, the Mona Lisa, arrives in the Hermitage, and it is the dream of all mice to gnaw it. But neither Vincent, nor Maurice, nor the cats of the Hermitage suspect that the painting is going to be stolen. And now Vincent will have to show all his resourcefulness and courage in order to save the masterpiece, protect the honor of the museum and win the love of a cat named Cleopatra from the Egyptian hall.
Running time: 79 mins
Rating: G
MOVIES COMING SOON
If
Release date: 16 May 2024
A man with the ability to talk to other people’s imaginary friends discovers that some of them are harbouring a resentment and anger after being forgotten and left without any friendship of love.
Rating TBC
Garfield
Release date: 30 May 2024
Animated feature film based on the popular comic strip about a sarcastic, lasagna-loving cat.
Karate Kid
Release date: June 2024
Inside Out 2
Release date: June 2024
The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” introduces a new Emotion: Anxiety
Despicable Me 4
Release date: June 2024
Fourth installment of the ‘Despicable Me’ franchise.
200% Wolf
Release date: July 2024
A heroic poodle who is struggling to maintain the respect of his werewolf pack. When a wayward wish transforms him into a werewolf and despots a mischievous fairy
Transformers One
Release date: September 2024
An origin story set on Cybertron, home of both the Autobots and the Decepticons. The film is said to focus on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron.
Noah's Ark: A Musical Adventure
Release date: September 2024
A pair of mice attempt to board Noah’s Ark.
Bettlejuice Bettlejuice
Release date: Sep 2024
Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton and Oscar nominee and star Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Burton’s
Wicked: Part One
Release date: November 2024
The story of how a green-skinned woman framed by the Wizard of Oz becomes the Wicked Witch of the West; feature film based on the Broadway musical.
Mufasa: The Lion King
Release date: December 2024
Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his footsteps while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Release date: December 2024
Paddington in Peru
Release date: January 2025
Follows Paddington and the Brown family as they visit Aunt Lucy in Peru, but a mystery sends them to the Amazon rainforest and up Peruvian mountains.
Disney's Snow White
Release date: March 2025
Live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney animated film ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’.
Minecraft
Release date: April 2025
The malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, prompting a young girl and her group of unlikely adventurers to set out to save the Overworld.
Elio
Release date: June 2025
A boy named Elio finds himself transported across the galaxy and is mistaken for the intergalactic ambassador of our planet Earth.
How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
Release date: June 2025
Follows a young Viking as he aspires to hunt dragons, and how he becomes unexpectedly a friend of a young dragon.
Moana
Release date: June 2025
Live action of Moana.
Zootopia 2
Release date: November 2025
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.
AUCKLAND CINEMAS
To find out what movies are playing at your local cinema in Auckland, New Zealand visit their websites listed here:
Capital Cinema
Balmoral, Central Auckland
www.capitol.co.nz
Cinema 3 Pukekohe
Pukekohe, South Auckland
www.pukekohecinemas.co.nz
Event Cinemas
Eight Auckland cinema locations: Albany, Broadway, Manukau, Newmarket (Westfield), Queen Street, St Lukes, Westcity Henderson and Westgate Massey
www.eventcinemas.co.nz
Hawkins Theatre
Papakura, South Auckland
www.hawkinstheatre.co.nz
Hoyts Cinemas
Five Auckland cinema locations: Botany Downs, Hibiscus Coast, Sylvia Park, Wairau Park and Mission Bay
www.hoyts.co.nz
Lido Cinema
Epsom, Central Auckland
www.lido.co.nz
Matakana Cinemas
Matakana, North Auckland
www.matakanacinemas.co.nz
Monterey Cinemas Howick
Howick, East Auckland
www.montereycinemas.co.nz
Monterey Lounge Cinema Takapuna
Takapuna, North Shore
www.montereytakapuna.co.nz
Reading Cinemas
Lynnmall, New Lynn, West Auckland
readingcinemas.co.nz
Rialto Cinemas
Broadway, Newmarket, Central Auckland
www.rialto.co.nz
Silky Otter Cinemas
Two Auckland Cinema locations: Orakei Bay Village and Ponsonby
www.silkyotter.co.nz
The Bridgeway
Northcote, North Shore
www.bridgeway.co.nz
The Vic Devonport
Devonport, North Shore
www.thevic.co.nz
Waiheke Island Community Cinema
Oneroa, Waiheke Island
www.waihekecinema.nz
