Everyday is boring, isn’t it? And what’s better than to embark on a fantastic adventure, to get away from everyday boredom. Good fantasy adventure movies give us that relief from the mundane. If you want to get away from the daily grind, a Fantasy-Adventure genre is the best movie option I can think of. They transport you to a different, imaginary world. A world where your rules do not apply. Where evolution takes a different path. Where science makes it possible to travel across dimensions, and where fairy tales come to life.
Best Fantasy Adventure Movies
Checkout these amazing fantasy genre Hollywood movies online and join the characters on their adventures as they explore new worlds, along with your family.
1. Golden Compass
Based on the book Northern Lights written by Philip Pullman, the movie takes you on an adventure with Lyra Belcqua who lives in a parallel universe. Lyra’s world is threatened by a tyrant who wants to end tolerance and free inquiry. As children begin to disappear from a settlement, Lyra embarks on a journey to the north pole to form an alliance with armored polar bears.
2. Bridge to Terabithia
Jess feels neglected at home and is bullied in school. He finds a friend in the new kid at school and his neighbor, Leslie. They bond in an abandoned tree-house and create a fantasy world – Terabithia. Join Leslie and Jess as they fight enormous creatures in this new world and build a fantasy land that we would all want to visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUz2AKcI1A
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
Based on the series of novels written by C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia are fantasy films that follow adventures of children in the world of Narnia. The children are guided by a powerful lion that can speak, as they fight the White Witch.
4. Inkheart
One of the best fantasy adventure movies you will love to watch. Mo has a secret gift. We have all heard of people with black tongue, but Mo has what they call a solver tongue. He has the power to bring to life characters from the book he reads. The only problem is, every time someone from the book comes out in this world, one from here goes into the world of the story. Mo has lost his wife and has unleashed a villain, who now wants him to bring one of the 40 thieves from Arabian Nights stories to life and get access to the treasure. From winged monkeys of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to a Minotaur from Theseus, Inkheart is true roller-coaster.
5. Journey to the Center of the Earth
Meet the Vernians – people who believe that books written by Jules Verne were not fiction, the worlds actually exist. Sean Anderson’s father has been missing for years now, last seen on his expedition to a volcanic island. After years, Sean notices some notes in the Jules Verne book Journey to the Center of the Earth. He decides to follow the clues in the book with his uncle Trevor, which takes them first to Iceland. Join the duo on their journey to mysterious places and parallel worlds here on Earth.
6. Pan’s Labyrinth
Part fantasy and part war movie, Pan’s Labyrinth is a Spanish-Mexican movie released in 2006. The movie narrates the story of Moanna who has traveled to the human world and Ofelia. Ofelia stumbles into the labyrinth and is guided by a fairy to meet The Faun. The Faun gives her three tasks to complete and become immortal and also save her dying mother. The movie mixes events int the real world and the fantasy world to weave an interesting narrative that won’t allow you to leave your screens.
7. Night at the Museum
The movie is a Fantasy-Comedy based on the book by the same name written by Milan Trenc. Larry is unable to hold on tot a job and is divorced by his wife. He takes up a job of night watchman at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, where the previous guard gives him some specific instructions – ‘not to allow anything in . . . or out’.
8. Tomorrowland
What is worse? Not knowing the future or knowing that it is all bad? Tomorrowland is a fantasy that moves in current time and futuristic world in a parallel dimension. At the core of movie is a question that asks whether telling people about environmental degradation and apocalyptic future will spurn them to act. An interesting take on human attitude and outcome.
9. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
A sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island is another Jules Vern story. This installment of the movie stars Dwayne Johnson and Michael cane as the missing grandfather. Sean is looking for his grandfather and Hank, intending to bond with his stepson, decides to help him decipher the clues and go on the hunt for his grandfather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3LD8687szQ
10. Jumanji
Alan Parrish, a 12 year old is about to play the game of his life. The year is 1969 and Alan is playing with Sarah. They get trapped in the board game he finds buried at a construction site. To their amazement, the pieces of the board game move on their own when they roll the dice. A cryptic message appears every time. Things fall apart when the a message flashes and asks Alan to wait until someone rolls a 5 or 8. And with that message, Alan is sucked into the game.
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