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The Best Children's Movies Featuring a Primarily African-American Cast

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (39)

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Not so honorable mentions, Good Burger, Bebe’s Kids, Are We There Yet? and Fat Albert.

The 5 Best Children’s Movies Featuring a Primarily African-American Cast:

5.

4.

3. The Wiz

2. The Princess and the Frog

1. Akeelah and the Bee

  • Number of Animated Films Listed in IMDb: 2,731.

  • Number of primarily African-American animation movies made by a major studio all time: 2.










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    Comments

    Ouch!

    Posted by: Candy at August 17, 2010 11:38 AM

    • I noticed you included Bebe's Kids in the not so honorable mention section. I may be wrong but wasn't that movie awesome?

    Posted by: JackKlompus at August 17, 2010 11:41 AM

    I suppose "Snow White and De Sebben Dwarfs" doesn't count.

    Posted by: Tracer Bullet at August 17, 2010 11:42 AM

    And your point is....?

    Posted by: Philip at August 17, 2010 11:46 AM

    i get your point, but i must say "good burger" should have at least been number 4. everyone i know that was nerdy enough to see it loved it, lol

    Posted by: invisiblewoman at August 17, 2010 11:56 AM

    Yo, Acid tripping cheeba money, The Wiz is not animation. It's LIVE ACTION. The Only thing animated about it was Michael Jackson and Diana Ross (Bite me, it true. They were made by Disnei [And I can't use the TM, Circle R, and Circle C's like I WANT TO here.....]). Therefore, Wiz Out.

    Posted by: Kahntahmp at August 17, 2010 11:58 AM

    Wait, I thought it was about animation....My Bad. =D

    But you're still an Acid tripping cheeba money.

    Posted by: Kahntahmp at August 17, 2010 11:59 AM

    What about The Boondocks?

    Posted by: Fredo at August 17, 2010 12:00 PM

    Kahntahmp, neither is Akeelah and the Bee. The list is for children's movies.

    It has been too long since I watched The Wiz. Is it really aimed at children?

    Now I'm going to be humming "Ease on down the road" all day.

    Posted by: Patty O'Green at August 17, 2010 12:01 PM

    Kahntahmp,

    This is a list of children's movies with African-American casts, not just animated movies. Dustin added the animated film stats at the end to make a point.

    Do you understand now?

    Posted by: Kballs at August 17, 2010 12:06 PM

    I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't seen any of these and I cannot think of anything to add to the list.
    ****crawls humbly and red-faced back into privileged white existence****

    Posted by: PaddyDog at August 17, 2010 12:07 PM

    My girls have watched Cheetah Girls and Twitches (plus sequals). Disney made for TV movies, not theatrical releases, but can they get some love?

    cheetah girls
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338852/

    twitches
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467421/

    Posted by: mswas at August 17, 2010 12:09 PM

    Everybody knows there's no such thing as black children, they hatch from underground tar pits and surf up as liquid material through the cracks in urban streets before they congeal at surface level to be educated by the nearest adoptive gang-banger. Then they posture for my hard earned tax dollars with their "social justice" so they can like, go to school or whatever, but really they just want to rob the white man's money. Then when they get older they try to use reverse racism to get fancy jobs in high-paying government positions so they sully the good name of our greatest American President, Ronald H. Christ Reagan.

    At least that's what I learned last night on Fox News.

    Posted by: Very Gullible at August 17, 2010 12:09 PM

    Apparently you do. That's what happens when you get distracted in the middle of a comment and it takes too long to post.

    Posted by: Kballs at August 17, 2010 12:12 PM

    Fat Albert. I'm not saying it's good but...

    Also, I wouldn't say The Boondocks is aimed at children. At least not children that aren't mine.

    Posted by: admin at August 17, 2010 12:30 PM

    "Very Gullible" deserves to be on EE for that. There's some high quality, next level shit contained in that post.

    Posted by: Samwise at August 17, 2010 12:33 PM

    "Acid tripping cheeba money" would make an excellent album title.

    Posted by: MelBivDevoe at August 17, 2010 12:38 PM

    Akeelah and the Bee is a lovely movie. I'm also horribly biased towards spelling bee-themed entertainment. It's an territory ripe for exploration yet so few choose to.

    Posted by: Robert at August 17, 2010 1:44 PM

    I'm almost thirty and white as snow and I LOVED Akeelah and the Bee! I also did spelling bees as a child, so it had that going for it....

    Posted by: scorzi at August 17, 2010 1:50 PM

    Why the fuck is Rabobi not up there?

    Posted by: peanut at August 17, 2010 2:31 PM

    I love Bebe's Kids.

    Posted by: RobP at August 17, 2010 2:55 PM

    @Very Gullible, as a recovering black child I almost wet myself when I read that.

    Posted by: Carolina Girl at August 17, 2010 3:09 PM

    Fuck Honorable Mention, Bebe's Kids was pretty awesome.

    What about Osmosis Jones? Or The Lion King? Sure, the characters weren't African American, but the major voices were.

    And I liked The Longshots, too.

    Posted by: ceejeemcbeegee at August 17, 2010 5:18 PM

    what about "A Blaffair to Rememblack"? Or is that too edgy for kids?

    Posted by: she dont use jelly at August 17, 2010 5:58 PM

    What about that fish movie starring Will Smith? The cast wasn't all African American but it had at least a majority I think. I might be wrong on that.

    Posted by: Blank at August 17, 2010 6:35 PM

    Oh I be diggin Osmosis Jones. Bill Murray be my's favorite black American man.

    Posted by: gilgamesh at August 17, 2010 7:00 PM

    um....Song of the South....??? Anybody?...too soon?

    Posted by: Nope at August 17, 2010 7:23 PM

    ^^ i was gonna say 'song of the south' earlier, but didn't have the nerve, so thanks!

    Posted by: invisiblewoman at August 17, 2010 8:26 PM

    Well, I hope Tyler Perry rectifies this situation, posthaste!

    Posted by: Fernando at August 17, 2010 8:43 PM

    @Patty O'Green & KBalls

    I understood the whole time. I just wanted a way to call Rowles an Acid tripping cheeba monkey. (I saw my spelling error later.)

    Posted by: Kahntahmp at August 17, 2010 9:42 PM

    Definitely going to have to fight for Bebe's Kids - that was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. The movie is intelligent and has legs - if only it were still in print.

    We don't die, we multiply!

    Posted by: lastpolarbear at August 17, 2010 10:53 PM

    ... Meteor Man, anyone? May not be cinematic gold, but I watched that obsessively as a kid.

    Posted by: acejillian at August 17, 2010 11:11 PM

    I was thinking "The Lion King", too but other than James Earl Jones, Madge Sinclair, and Whoopi Goldberg I'm not coming up with any other notable black actors in it. On a side note I always thought it was cool that Prince Akeem and Simba had the same parents.

    "The Princess & the Frog" was fantastic. I really love that movie. Easily the best Disney 2D since "Hunchback".

    Posted by: TylerDFC at August 18, 2010 7:00 AM

    Shit, forgot Robert Guillaume as Rafiki. So that's 4.

    Posted by: TylerDFC at August 18, 2010 7:03 AM

    One, The Boondocks is a television show.
    Two, The Boondocks is on Adult Swim and is clearly NOT a children's show.
    Three, at least we got those black crows in Dumbo!

    As a young mixed (half black/half white) child, I used to always think that The Lion King was the black movie. Cause its in Africa right!?

    How upset was I when I found out Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Matthew Broderick were the voices of Simba? Very.

    I repeat Candy's sentiments:

    Ouch.

    Posted by: Littlejon2001 at August 19, 2010 8:16 AM

    Not just african american, pretty much any POC or decent female characters are lacking in childrens films.

    Posted by: Amy at August 19, 2010 10:42 AM

    I don't even know how I'm reading this! I'm black, so I'm not allowed to own a computer.

    Well, that's my qwerty!

    Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at August 19, 2010 5:09 PM

    I would add, "Kirikou and The Wild Beast", "Kirikou and The Sorceress", "In His Father's Shoes" and "Night John" to the list.

    Posted by: Robert Monroe, Jr. at September 11, 2010 9:17 AM

    They should include the remake of Cinderella on the list starring Brandy Norwood. My little girl loved it.

    Posted by: Monica at November 20, 2010 4:33 PM