New and upcoming
New and upcoming family movies
Families often need help fastest on newer titles, not only classics. This page gathers the newer kids and family films LionLens is already reviewing, updating, or watching closely so parents can check recent releases without digging through the full archive first.
How to use this page
Start with the newest reviews
If a current title is already live, begin there before checking broader list pages or older comparison titles.
Use the review and the article together
A review gives the fast content call. The articles help with the bigger worldview questions newer family films often raise.
Send missing titles
If a family release is missing, use the contact page. New and streaming titles are often the fastest-moving part of the queue.
Review coming soon
Family titles we are tracking before release. These are not finished reviews yet.
Coming 17 June 2026
Toy Story 5
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
Coming 24 June 2026
Minions & Monsters
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.
Streaming family titles we are tracking
Family-suitable streaming discoveries across regions and platforms, queued for review where appropriate.
Streaming discovery
Swapped
A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of the Valley, magically trade places and set off on an adventure of a lifetime to switch back. Their journey soon uncovers a greater threat—one that could endanger not only their species, but the entire valley they call home.
Netflix + 129 regions
Streaming discovery
KPop Demon Hunters
When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.
Netflix + 129 regions
Streaming discovery
Spirited Away
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Netflix + 129 regions
Streaming discovery
Shrek
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
Amazon Prime Video + 109 regions
Streaming discovery
Kung Fu Panda 4
Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a new kung fu practitioner for the spot and will encounter a villain called the Chameleon who conjures villains from the past.
Netflix + 105 regions
Streaming discovery
The Wild Robot
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Netflix + 97 regions
Streaming discovery
Howl's Moving Castle
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
Netflix + 86 regions
Streaming discovery
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.
SkyShowtime + 85 regions
Streaming discovery
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
HBO Max + 77 regions
Streaming discovery
Despicable Me 4
Gru and Lucy and their girls—Margo, Edith and Agnes—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru also faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, forcing the family to go on the run.
Netflix + 77 regions
Streaming discovery
GOAT
A small goat with big dreams 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.
HBO Max + 74 regions
Streaming discovery
Kung Fu Panda
Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely choice for the mystical title of the Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace. Under reluctant guidance by Master Shifu and the Furious Five, Po must embrace who he is to unlock the power that no scroll can teach.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, SkyShowtime + 73 regions
Recent family releases already reviewed
A quick shortlist of newer titles currently live on LionLens.
Swapped
This is a broadly family-friendly animated film with mild-to-moderate peril, some scary storytelling, and fantasy magic...
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The Sheep Detectives
The surface content stays in the PG range, with mild violence, threat, brief language, and some sad material around deat...
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Animal Farm
This adaptation carries heavier themes than its animated style may suggest. Parents are more likely to be weighing polit...
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Orangutan
Surface content is mild for most families, with a few tense animal-danger moments and brief natural-world mating referen...
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Krypto Saves the Day!: Coastal Catastrophe
Surface content stays fairly light, with mild peril, gentle romance, and playful comedy. The bigger point for Christian...
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The Loud House: European Adventure
This looks like a very light family title on surface content, but the review confidence is limited because the text mate...
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DJ Gabe: The Movie
The strongest family concern here is not heavy surface content so much as uncertainty about the material tied to this ti...
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
This animated adventure stays in familiar family-film territory with fantasy peril, kidnapping, comic threats, and a few...
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The Magic Faraway Tree
This is a gentle family fantasy with very mild surface content, but it carries enough magical-worldview material and a f...
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The Land of Sometimes
This looks like a gentle family fantasy with mild peril, rude humor, and a few light language moments. The bigger conver...
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Shabab Albomb 3
Parents are likely to notice that the main concern here is not crude content but the film's dark subject matter. Child k...
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Lightbulb
Surface content concerns look very low for families. The main point for Christian parents is not objectionable material,...
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