Way too scary for young children
Its supposed to be an inspiring family film but the terrifyingly imagery is way too much for young kids. Great film but it shouldnt be marketed as a family film.
shareLol so your kids are sheltered. Gotcha.
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I'm not really sure if it is being marketed as a family film. It definitely says PG-13 during the commercials but you are right. I think pre-teens to young adults would get way more out of this anyway.
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Review of the film here- https://youtu.be/ZxZwCR72QvA
Pg, pg 13 is the same. Kid friendly ratings.
shareSaw it yesterday, and said it should be a 15, not 12A. We had 2 families by us, one boy was obviously bored and played up, going go the loos every 15 minutes, and 2 girls in 2 different family's, ended up on parents laps sobbing. It is a very well acted film, the boy who played Connor was spot on, but I am not sure who it is aimed at really.
shareHuh? Maybe if you were talking about Paranorman or even some of the later Harry Potter films but A Monster Calls too scary for young children?
I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
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All of the best family films have a scary element to them.
The Never-Ending Story, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, the best Disney films... They all have a bit of frightening imagery and intense subject matter. Because they treat kids with respect and know they can handle it.
You have a choice. You can either keep your kids away from movies like that or let them see a little scary stuff to let them know it's okay to be scared sometimes. It's your choice, but I suggest you think about it for a while and ask what your kids might want.
I just want to warn families wanting taking children to see this as 'family fun' film. I went to see this film by myself knowing full well it was a tear jerker, I was expecting some sort of fun but all the themes are very dark and mature. The fact the kids mother is dying is heavily emphasised throughout and I was concerned for two very young kids who were maybe 7-8 in the cinema, I could hear one telling his mother he didn't like it during a very morbid scene with the dying mother. In fact it made me uncomfortable knowing kids were watching, I could hardly keep myself together as I cried so much at the end.
Yes there are dark fun films for young kids but this is not it!
Well they may not like it, but it's a part of life they'll have to face at some point or another. And the less you expose them to a world where sad things happen, the rougher it'll be for them to deal with.
Why not take the time to explain to the kids that even though this kind of thing CAN happen in real life (sans Monster, of course) that it's just a movie and all of the actors are okay? Take the time to tell your children that it's all a make-believe story to talk about adult themes like grief and responsibility. Compare it to The Lion King, if you have to. Just don't insult children's intelligence by refusing to let them watch a more mature movie. You do that, you get immature adults.
where was it marketed as a family film? Not anywhere that I saw.
shareBut it is a family film. It's aimed at kids. All those stories the monster tells the boy, you think that's all aimed at adults? It's like a twisted dark fable, the kind of childrens story you don't see very much nowadays, but that is undoubtedly what it is.
It's probably not what most families nowadays would want to watch, so I doubt it'll find much of an audience, but there's no other way for it to really sell itself.
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