Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
This Disney+ live-action family comedy (streaming March 28, 2025) follows 11-year-old Alexander Garcia and his multigenerational Mexican-American family on a chaos-filled road trip to return a cursed idol to its home in Mexico. The humor is broad and slapstick-heavy, with a warm family-first heart underneath all the crashes, skunks, and supernatural mischief.
Comfortably suits kids 7 and up on their own; sensitive 5- to 6-year-olds may want a grown-up nearby for the spookier idol moments.
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Alexander's grandfather tells the legend of the cursed idol and a fire that destroyed their ancestral town; the jade monkey idol is shown as eerie and unsettling, frightening both kids.
A stylized black-and-white flashback and a nightmare sequence feature brief close-up flashes of green-faced witches; spooky in tone but cartoonish.
The family's luxury RV goes haywire and crashes into a large roadside alien statue, decapitating it; loud and slapstick, no one is hurt.