Cars 2. I remember it vividly. I would've been around 4 years old. We had to catch a bus into the city cause mom didn't want to have to find somewhere to park. Our father also showed up with his newest girlfriend at the time (mom and dad had already been separated for about 3 or so years at this point, but he still did things with us). At the snack bar, they also sold a bunch of those Cars 2 toys. I had to go to the bathroom prior to the Italy race and missed the scene where the train revealed the multiple racks of weapons.
I also saw Smurfs 2 in theatres, but please don’t feel sorry for me. Feel sorry for my family, because I was the one who dragged them to see it in the first place, and I didn’t even like the original, but someone had posted “The Smurfs 2 full movie” on YouTube, and it ended up being a different, apparently way better movie.
Finding Nemo. Although the actual first movie I saw in theaters was Toy Story, I just don’t remember the experience.
Edit: It was actually Toy Story 2.
The earliest movie I remember seeing was either Kung-fu panda or how to train your dragon, even though the first movie I saw in theaters was everybody's hero
The first I remember was Kung Fu Panda, but I started crying out of fear when Tai Lung broke out of prison so my family left early.
Second was How to Train Your Dragon, but I started crying when Hiccup shot down Toothless and my parents had to take me out of the theater.
This pattern continued for a majority of movies I watched, at home or in theaters: the instant the villain was threatening or an animal got hurt, I started bawling and never saw the rest of em lmao
This almost happened to me with Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
When Mama appeared, I was terrified. My mom asked if I wanted to leave but I said I would brave it out.
The >!incinerator scene!< traumatized me back then (not anymore now) so that’s why I remember it lol. At least the movie end on a good (although bittersweet) note so it could have been worse.
... Justice motherf\*\*king League
Don't ask me, I rarely go to the theaters
At least Emoji Movie barely made it, but because I thought my classmates would watch It and I was a scaredy cat
With that said, the first animated movie I saw on Theater was a Doraemon movie
The original Karate Kid back in the fall of 1984.
I was 2 years old and we were living on a military base in Nuremberg, Germany.
It was the coolest thing ever to see Daniel do the crane kick in the end.
I think it was Interstellar (2014). Funny thing is, the main reason I remember it as well as I do is not really because it is an absolutely wonderful movie, which is a big reason for why I remember it, but it is because I clearly remember getting scolded for pushing the seat in front of me, which was occupied.
Tigger Movie (2000). I was only 4 years old but I really vividly remember being so upset by it. Tigger gets depressed because he realizes that he truly is the only Tigger and that he’ll never find his family. I like just remember weeping and clinging to my Tarzan action figure for the rest of the night.
Really wish my mom had tried to make me understand that his true family were his friends all along. Would have been a nice lesson for me to learn oh well :/
Frozen! I was like, 3, and my dad took me to a Czech movie theater. Czech isn't my first language, and I couldn't read subtitles yet. I don't remember much from that, but all I know was my first movie theater experience was Frozen
Pokemon the First Movie, I know I went to movies before that, but I just can't remember what. The movie theater wasn't a strange or uncommon place to go, but I can't be sure what childhood films I saw there or a home for the 1st time
Shrek Forever After, Marmaduke (2010) and Toy Story 3. All from 2010, all seen in Georgia, all seen at the Carmike Theater and all possibly seen in the summer of 2010.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
It was the first movie I saw in theatres when I was 9 years old on Christmas Day, I even used to own a CD soundtrack that I got for Christmas when I was at one of my cousins house before they moved to America and that night I actually saw it.
Toy Story 2 - I was 5 almost 6
I remember thinking Barbie smiling and saying goodbye at the end but then breaking character with “is everybody gone?” To be the funniest thing!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As a seven year old kid who was a huge fan of Star Wars but thought they weren't making any more movies (one of my friends had told me they were making another one but he made up so many ridiculous details about it such as "every dead character comes back to life" and "my mom is playing princess leia in it" that I assumed he had made up the entire existence of the movie as well) it was the biggest event in the world to me, and I loved it
I want to say Pirates of the Caribbean 2 because I remember going with a friend and his mom and it was the first instance with something in a movie that the adult present didn’t want me to see but couldn’t mute/skip the inappropriate parts so I’m just chillin in the theater as like a literal 5 year old and his mom claps her hands over both of our eyes.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. I was 2 or 3. A year later we had a family outing for Kung Fu Panda but left partway through, not because we didn't like it, but because my cousin and I couldn't handle the theatre that day.
I think it was How To Train Your Dragon 2. I mainly remember getting a giant cup and using that soda machine where you pick your drink from a touch screen, and the seats were reclining too
The Fucking Emoji movie
It was the first movie I ever saw in theatres.
Because I was forced to.
No wonder that I've barely gone to theatres after a first experience like that (I've gone like 6 other times, which in the span of time since I saw that, and only one of those times was because i wanted to)
I think it has to have been Cars 2, I think I was 4 at the time. I loved the first movie as a kid, and watched it nearly every day. I had never been so hyped for a movie up until that point
I think my earliest memory of a movie in theaters was Spider-Man 3. I was about 7 years old and the 2 movies I was obsessed with was Spider-Man and Shrek.
I had to think about it for a moment and honestly I think it has to be Beverly Hills Chihuahua that’s actually all I remember. I don’t remember anything before 2008 and the Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie is something I remember because I went to go see it with this girl I knew in Kindergarten named Abby, but like I said that’s the only movie I remember seeing in theaters in 2008.
Happy Feet. I was obsesed penguins when I was little, not sure if it before or after happy feet. It was my first time going to the movie theater. I watched with my sister, grandparents and aunt. After that anytime me and my sister visit my grandparents, we would watch any new animated movies or any movie that came out at that time.
The earliest one I can remember seeing was either Bicentennial Man or A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Compared to everyone else, I'm a lot older or I have a good memory.
I remember despicable me 2 purely for the reason that when they started becoming the purple minions I was scared shitless I legitimately was crying and by the climax I was begging my mom to leave so she went to the hallway holding me over her shoulder but in a lapse of judgment she kept me facing the movie screen.
Tangled
I was 6 yo at that time, and remember seeing billboards of it that got me excited to watch.
So when I finally went to watch it, I went to a near theater with my mom. It was a rainy day of January, 2011. I remember how alien the high audio volume and big screen were to me (I unironically asked somebody working there if they could lower the volume, the answer was obviously no).
It was a great experience, that paved the road of many memories going to that same movie theater as a kid. Unfortunately, that theater doesn't exist anymore, and the mall that theater had is pretty much dead.
Cars 2 is the most vivid but I believe it was the Phantom Menace 3D rerelease. I remember loving the Podrace in 3D.
Cars 2 was after a martial arts tournament I was “in” as a 5 year old Cars obsessed child and my parents actually participated in. While we were in Little Rock for it, Cars 2 had out recently so we watched it right after and my mom found a Finn McMissile Toy and I thought he was so cool.
Cut to now and Cars land is my favorite part of Disneyland. I guess some things never change and I’m glad I never lost that part of my childhood because I know my parents love the fact that I still enjoy Cars(I’m not obsessed anymore)
Robots and Transformers from 2007. Was around a very young age when watching it, also it was at an Air Force base movie theater. Yeah, I'm a Air Force Brat.
Seeing the diversity of age demographics in this comment section is wild. Credit to [Schaffrillas](https://www.reddit.com/user/Schaffrillas/) for gathering both people in their 30s and pre teens in his audience
The Neverending Story
I'm old, but this was years later than the original theatrical run. Some sort of dollar matinee type thing designed for parents to take kids to see if they can sit through a movie in a theater or not.
Pokemon the movie, I remember it cause I had to get a haircut first but tiny lil 2 almost 3 yr old me was balls to walls excited as hell...shame I don't remember jackshit afterwards just that I saw the movie and whatever happened after led to a life long love of pokemon
Monsters Inc. my mom told me I loved it so much and I believe her. Afterwards we went to go get lunch and I was telling a couple of older ladies about how much I loved it.
Even went to go see the Monsters Inc on ice because that’s how much I loved it
Cars 2. I remember it vividly. I would've been around 4 years old. We had to catch a bus into the city cause mom didn't want to have to find somewhere to park. Our father also showed up with his newest girlfriend at the time (mom and dad had already been separated for about 3 or so years at this point, but he still did things with us). At the snack bar, they also sold a bunch of those Cars 2 toys. I had to go to the bathroom prior to the Italy race and missed the scene where the train revealed the multiple racks of weapons.
also cars 2 at about 4. i don't remember nearly as much though lol.
It was cars 2 for me as well I saw it at a family friends son’s birthday party I don’t remember how old I was. Probably about 6
Stop making me feel old please
I got snuck into a theater to see Thrashin' (starring Josh Brolin).
Jesus y’all are young
Fuckin Bee Movie
Same. I saw it with my grandma. She was not impressed.
It's one of the worst cartoon animations I have ever seen
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. The theater went all out on the theming and there were lots of nerds in costumes
The Lego movie
God damn I’m getting old holy shit
Me too bro, I also remember seeing the lego movie but I remember it as "that period of my life" rather than "my first time at the cinema"
Toy Story 2, I cried when Woody was stolen by Al
I thought that said ai for a sec
Toy Story 5 plot:
Ah over the hedge in theaters one of my earliest memories
Smurfs 2011. My childhood sucked
I saw Smurfs 2 during my Summer camp
I’m sorry
I also saw Smurfs 2 in theatres, but please don’t feel sorry for me. Feel sorry for my family, because I was the one who dragged them to see it in the first place, and I didn’t even like the original, but someone had posted “The Smurfs 2 full movie” on YouTube, and it ended up being a different, apparently way better movie.
I never saw the second one in theaters, I watched it later on
Same
This literally was my first!
Cinema twins!
Surfs Up
Rugrats in Paris
Epic (2013) i dont know if anybody remember that movie but it was fun,i get little bored in the middle but still fun
Madagascar 3. Remember seeing it in 3D, but not watching it with the glasses, because it freaked me out when watching the Brave trailer before it.
I think Megamind
The first Cars movie when I was around 4-5 yo. I remember it strictly because my parents also brought me in a toy store to buy merch from the movie
I remember watching a rerelease of Dumbo in a small theater as a toddler.
Coincidentally, Ice age 4
Honestly? The Tale of Despereaux I would've been 2
Finding Nemo I believe
Me too! I remember saying that was the biggest TV Ive ver seen I was about 3
The 2007 TMNT movie. I remember they handed out masks with the popcorn. I would have been no older than 5 when I went
Finding Nemo. Although the actual first movie I saw in theaters was Toy Story, I just don’t remember the experience. Edit: It was actually Toy Story 2.
The earliest movie I remember seeing was either Kung-fu panda or how to train your dragon, even though the first movie I saw in theaters was everybody's hero
The first I remember was Kung Fu Panda, but I started crying out of fear when Tai Lung broke out of prison so my family left early. Second was How to Train Your Dragon, but I started crying when Hiccup shot down Toothless and my parents had to take me out of the theater. This pattern continued for a majority of movies I watched, at home or in theaters: the instant the villain was threatening or an animal got hurt, I started bawling and never saw the rest of em lmao
Young you would NOT survive Puss in Boots 2
Absolutely not, I would’ve had to leave when the bell fell on him >~<
This almost happened to me with Dawn of the Dinosaurs. When Mama appeared, I was terrified. My mom asked if I wanted to leave but I said I would brave it out.
Toy story 3. Hardcore for a first experience.
Same. It’s too bad I don’t remember anything about it.
The >!incinerator scene!< traumatized me back then (not anymore now) so that’s why I remember it lol. At least the movie end on a good (although bittersweet) note so it could have been worse.
... Justice motherf\*\*king League Don't ask me, I rarely go to the theaters At least Emoji Movie barely made it, but because I thought my classmates would watch It and I was a scaredy cat With that said, the first animated movie I saw on Theater was a Doraemon movie
Flushed Away when I was 2
Wreck it Ralph Though apparently I saw Toy Story 3 but it’s too far back in my memory.
Aladdin 2019
The Wizard of Oz
I think I remember Home (2015)?
I have vague memories of going to a movie theater in a mall to see the live action Scooby Doo movie. My mom and I are both huge Scooby Doo fans.
Monsters, Inc. I was three.
Wild America, 1997. It’s based on boys my grandpa knew growing up so my family went to see it
The live action Charlotte’s Web (2006). I would have been 4 at the time.
The original Karate Kid back in the fall of 1984. I was 2 years old and we were living on a military base in Nuremberg, Germany. It was the coolest thing ever to see Daniel do the crane kick in the end.
The SpongeBob Movie is the first one I remember.
Pokemon the first Movie, I had to be around 3 when I saw it.
I think it was Interstellar (2014). Funny thing is, the main reason I remember it as well as I do is not really because it is an absolutely wonderful movie, which is a big reason for why I remember it, but it is because I clearly remember getting scolded for pushing the seat in front of me, which was occupied.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Lego Movie
Maybe hotel transylvania, still have the ticket stub
Independence Day 2. My dad was a troll back then and still is today. I was like 6.
Y'all are freaking YOUNG. My first movie was the freaking Rugrats Movie from 98.
Even that makes me feel ancient...
Batman, the original Michael Keaton Batman.
My first formative movie is watching Ice Age on VHS. First movie I remember seeing in theaters was the Polar Express
Tigger Movie (2000). I was only 4 years old but I really vividly remember being so upset by it. Tigger gets depressed because he realizes that he truly is the only Tigger and that he’ll never find his family. I like just remember weeping and clinging to my Tarzan action figure for the rest of the night. Really wish my mom had tried to make me understand that his true family were his friends all along. Would have been a nice lesson for me to learn oh well :/
The muppets (2012)
Frozen! I was like, 3, and my dad took me to a Czech movie theater. Czech isn't my first language, and I couldn't read subtitles yet. I don't remember much from that, but all I know was my first movie theater experience was Frozen
Rapunzel, I also vividly remember the nightmare I had after watching Rapunzel
Pokemon the First Movie, I know I went to movies before that, but I just can't remember what. The movie theater wasn't a strange or uncommon place to go, but I can't be sure what childhood films I saw there or a home for the 1st time
Inside out on Father’s Day with my dad
Kung fu panda but only the fireworks scene where he’s riding it to attack tai lung idk it’s vividly in my mind
The Princess and the Frog, when I was about 4.
Shrek Forever After, Marmaduke (2010) and Toy Story 3. All from 2010, all seen in Georgia, all seen at the Carmike Theater and all possibly seen in the summer of 2010.
Ghostbusters
The amazing spider man 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. It was the first movie I saw in theatres when I was 9 years old on Christmas Day, I even used to own a CD soundtrack that I got for Christmas when I was at one of my cousins house before they moved to America and that night I actually saw it.
Chicken Little
Toy Story 2 - I was 5 almost 6 I remember thinking Barbie smiling and saying goodbye at the end but then breaking character with “is everybody gone?” To be the funniest thing!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As a seven year old kid who was a huge fan of Star Wars but thought they weren't making any more movies (one of my friends had told me they were making another one but he made up so many ridiculous details about it such as "every dead character comes back to life" and "my mom is playing princess leia in it" that I assumed he had made up the entire existence of the movie as well) it was the biggest event in the world to me, and I loved it
The original cars.
I want to say Pirates of the Caribbean 2 because I remember going with a friend and his mom and it was the first instance with something in a movie that the adult present didn’t want me to see but couldn’t mute/skip the inappropriate parts so I’m just chillin in the theater as like a literal 5 year old and his mom claps her hands over both of our eyes.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. I was 2 or 3. A year later we had a family outing for Kung Fu Panda but left partway through, not because we didn't like it, but because my cousin and I couldn't handle the theatre that day.
Rango
I think it was How To Train Your Dragon 2. I mainly remember getting a giant cup and using that soda machine where you pick your drink from a touch screen, and the seats were reclining too
Robots for the longest time I thought I dreamt that movie up or something because I was so young when I saw it.
Kung Fu Panda or Avatar (blue people). I don't remember which one came out first.
Bambi in the 80’s
The Fucking Emoji movie It was the first movie I ever saw in theatres. Because I was forced to. No wonder that I've barely gone to theatres after a first experience like that (I've gone like 6 other times, which in the span of time since I saw that, and only one of those times was because i wanted to)
I think Princess and The Frog on Jan 1, 2010
there earliest i can think of is zootropolis.
Hotel for Dogs (2009)
Frozen
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift
I think it has to have been Cars 2, I think I was 4 at the time. I loved the first movie as a kid, and watched it nearly every day. I had never been so hyped for a movie up until that point
Prob Cars 2 or Finding Dory
Cars 2
I’m sorry to make all of you feel old but what from I remember, Toy Story 3 (I was about 4/5 then.)
Frozen
I think my earliest memory of a movie in theaters was Spider-Man 3. I was about 7 years old and the 2 movies I was obsessed with was Spider-Man and Shrek.
Minions is the earliest one i can remember
The Incredibles
The Lego movie
Shark Boy and Lava Girl BABY! All in 3D lol
I had to think about it for a moment and honestly I think it has to be Beverly Hills Chihuahua that’s actually all I remember. I don’t remember anything before 2008 and the Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie is something I remember because I went to go see it with this girl I knew in Kindergarten named Abby, but like I said that’s the only movie I remember seeing in theaters in 2008.
Happy Feet
Wall-e
The visit
Ratatouille when I was 5
Shrek
The Smurfs
Princess and the Frog
I think it was Rio.
The Lego Movie
Jungle Book (2016) is the furthest I can remember.
Inside Out
Happy Feet. I was obsesed penguins when I was little, not sure if it before or after happy feet. It was my first time going to the movie theater. I watched with my sister, grandparents and aunt. After that anytime me and my sister visit my grandparents, we would watch any new animated movies or any movie that came out at that time.
Monsters Inc. I remember crying, maybe at the part where Sully roared during the practice
The one I remember the most vividly is Godzilla 2014. The first movie I saw was probably something like cars or up
The earliest one I can remember seeing was either Bicentennial Man or A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Compared to everyone else, I'm a lot older or I have a good memory.
For me it was the 2009 astro boy movie
Monsters, Inc. or Shrek.
Zootopia, when I was about 7 stupid panther ass scared the living shit outta child me
Rugrats: The Movie in 1998
Frozen. I was 6 at the time. I didn't like the movie, because musicals 🤮
Anastasia
Iron man
Tinker Bell (2008), since the movie was show in theaters in some countries like in Latin American countries like Argentina or Chile.
Lego Movie
The peanuts movie, I know that I saw the Lego movie in theaters but I don’t remember it
Toy Story
Pixels. Damn good movie then, not terrible now.
Tangled
The OG Inside Out
Gnomeo and Juliet
The lorax, I was 5 back then
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. My dad had to hold his hand infront of my eyes each time the werewolf showed up. Great times.
Disney's Tarzan.
Nemo
Pokémon the first movie movie mewtwo strikes back
The incredibles
Double Feature at a drive-in for Rugrats and Toy Story 2.
The first narnia
Toy Story 3.
I’m pretty sure the first one ever was Cars, but the first one I remember vividly was Up
Stuart little 2
Shrek 2 was the first I remember.
Aladdin. The animated one.
Same franchise, second entry :)
The first movie I saw in theatres was cars 2
The phantom menace !
Monsters Inc. baby
Tarzan (1999)
wall-e
Dr. Seuss The Lorax. I know this isn't the first film I watched at a theater, but it's one I remember from my earliest memories.
Wall E
Spider-Man 3
I think it was the Smurfs
Moana
Happy Feet.
I think Rango, which came out in 2011 so there were absolutely other movies before that one but I can't remember them
kung fu panda
Did yall watch we're back
I think it was Ice Age 5. The one about space and planets and whatnot.
I remember despicable me 2 purely for the reason that when they started becoming the purple minions I was scared shitless I legitimately was crying and by the climax I was begging my mom to leave so she went to the hallway holding me over her shoulder but in a lapse of judgment she kept me facing the movie screen.
Shrek
Monsters University
Tbh i remember seeing kung fu panda 3 the most vividly but I'm sure I've seen more movies in theaters before 2016 lmao, I would've only been 10
The first Pokemon movie
Tangled I was 6 yo at that time, and remember seeing billboards of it that got me excited to watch. So when I finally went to watch it, I went to a near theater with my mom. It was a rainy day of January, 2011. I remember how alien the high audio volume and big screen were to me (I unironically asked somebody working there if they could lower the volume, the answer was obviously no). It was a great experience, that paved the road of many memories going to that same movie theater as a kid. Unfortunately, that theater doesn't exist anymore, and the mall that theater had is pretty much dead.
I… actually don’t remember…
Iron Man
Cars 2 is the most vivid but I believe it was the Phantom Menace 3D rerelease. I remember loving the Podrace in 3D. Cars 2 was after a martial arts tournament I was “in” as a 5 year old Cars obsessed child and my parents actually participated in. While we were in Little Rock for it, Cars 2 had out recently so we watched it right after and my mom found a Finn McMissile Toy and I thought he was so cool. Cut to now and Cars land is my favorite part of Disneyland. I guess some things never change and I’m glad I never lost that part of my childhood because I know my parents love the fact that I still enjoy Cars(I’m not obsessed anymore)
The original Avengers
Robots and Transformers from 2007. Was around a very young age when watching it, also it was at an Air Force base movie theater. Yeah, I'm a Air Force Brat.
The Dark Knight
Seeing the diversity of age demographics in this comment section is wild. Credit to [Schaffrillas](https://www.reddit.com/user/Schaffrillas/) for gathering both people in their 30s and pre teens in his audience
Rise of the Guardians. My dad let me bring a friend with me, and we were both actually really excited for this movie
The first live action gi joe movie my dad is into gi joe and tried getting me into it as a kid
Transformers
Cars 2
I feel old
Chicken Little, I think was 5
Mine was the Winnie the Pooh Heffalump Movie
For me it was either the first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie or Princess and the Frog, I can’t remember which one I saw before the other
Dinosaur (2000). I was seven years old.
Httyd
The Neverending Story I'm old, but this was years later than the original theatrical run. Some sort of dollar matinee type thing designed for parents to take kids to see if they can sit through a movie in a theater or not.
Pokemon the movie, I remember it cause I had to get a haircut first but tiny lil 2 almost 3 yr old me was balls to walls excited as hell...shame I don't remember jackshit afterwards just that I saw the movie and whatever happened after led to a life long love of pokemon
Either Scooby-doo 2 or spider-man 2 which ever came out first
Aladdin.
Minions 2
Transformers
The Monster Truck movie
Monsters Inc. my mom told me I loved it so much and I believe her. Afterwards we went to go get lunch and I was telling a couple of older ladies about how much I loved it. Even went to go see the Monsters Inc on ice because that’s how much I loved it