When I went to see this movie, all of a sudden a couple comes in with a kid who couldn't have been more than eight years old! I am really curious as to what justifies parents bringing their eight year old to an R- rated movie, filled with violence like this one was...
when i went to see Freddy Vs. Jason, i saw a woman with 2 kids, i doubt either of them was older than 5. in this case you can kinda find the argument "its about fairy tale..." but with FVS, everyone knows what these movies are so why she brought kids so young, who knows.
i just wonder what she was thinking when within the first 5mins you see gore, violence and a nice close up of boobies. lol
it was even more surprising for me because that was when canada introduced the new "18A" rating. before that, "Restriced" in canada meant you had to be 18 to see it, no questions asked. not like in america where kids can get into them with an adult.
dont get me wrong, i dont judge that woman as i've grown up watching these sorta movies and while i wasnt seeing them in theaters at 5, i was watching them on tv.
I would've eaten this up when I was 8 years old. At least it's better than the people who brought a baby to Zero Dark Thirty.
SIEG BOLL!
I took my 11 year old Saturday. I did my due diligence before the movie (searched the web/IMDB, ask those you've seen it, etc.). Only I know what is suitable for my son and I chose that he was mature enough to see it. The violence is nothing when you think of movies like Avengers, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or other action movies that kids would go see. The "nude" scene lasted no more than 5 seconds and wasn't that big of a deal. I have seen PG & PG 13 films that make this one look like a Disney film.
shareSo I'm a parent of a 14-year old and have been looking forward to this movie since I first heard about it (more than a year ago). He and I have had plans to see it since the first trailer came out (long before the R-rating was announced), and now I'm in a quandary. As a rule, he doesn’t get to watch R-rated movie, but this one has me baffled.
The MPAA ratings have let me down on numerous occasions. For instance, Paranormal Activity 2 was rated R. My son wanted to go see that in theaters with some friends and I said absolutely not. I talked them into seeing Red (which was only rated PG-13 and was the only other thing playing at the time). After I watched both on DVD, I realized that I had definitely made the wrong decision. Red had several things in it that I wish he hadn’t seen while PA2 had nothing in it that I found objectionable (of course I had a hard time staying awake through PA2).
Likewise, Hannah was about a teen-aged girl who was trained as a assassin and the entire movie is about her killing people and shows a variety of pretty intense scenes including breaking necks; moreover, it wasn’t violence against zombies or vampires or witches, it was “real”, and it was only rated PG-13.
From reading the parental advisory on this Hansel and Gretel, it looks like there is a flash of boob and an allusion to sex, some over-the-top violence involving witches, and a few f-bombs. This movie doesn’t sound all that bad. Why isn’t it rated PG-13?
It sounds a little much for an 8-year old, but am I safe to take my 14-year old son to see it?
There are a lot of things wrong with the MPAA. The ratings board is one of them.
Check out the documentary "This Film is Not Yet Rated" (which the MPAA denied a rating for for a long time) to see the ridiculous arbitrariness of the MPAA.
Well... I wouldn't bring my kid to it, but not because it's R rated. I just wouldn't want him to watch trash.
shareDid the kid cause a problem? I was born in the eighties (1980 in fact, do the math on the movies I list) and remember being brought to such films as Terminator, Predator and Aliens (my Mom and Dad had a Schwarzenegger and Biehn thing going, as do I now lol). I grew up to be a normal, productive member of society. Are you upset because you don't agree with their parenting choices or that the kid was a pain and cried during the action scenes? Contrary to the media, kids subjected to simulated violence (media or video games)are not serial killers in the making.
shareI watched Nightmare on Elm Street and Chuck when I was 8 years old in the midnight showing on tv lol I was scared *beep* to sleep but it didn't damage me. I watched the x files since I was 7. I have always loved horror movies since I can remember and my mom never cared. Parents should worry more about what their kids are scared of than what entitled people think. They know what their children can and cannot handle.
shareThe cinema I was in was full of teenagers and pre-teens. I'm not in the USA, nobody checks those things. This is a very childish movie so I expect kids to be more into it than adults. Yeah, there's violence but it's the silly kind you see in the action movies all the time, not to mention video games, and we're not sensitive to the "bad language" as Americans are, I bet most children under 10 already know how to swear.
Pain is to pleasure as disco is to punk.You need to live through one to fully appreciate the other.
I think the real problem is..is when parents sit the kids down in front of a Tv or an R rated movie and dont communicate with the kid about what was going on in the movie afterwards....making sure that the kid understands that this movie is not real life and you shouldnt treat people badly and ask the kid questions like what do you think would be a better way to handle things...it gives the kids a real sense of what is fake and what the real world is all about...Dont think sheltering them will do any good cuz as soon as they walk out the door, they can be exposed to anything...just keep the communication open!!
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I wouldn't take either of my kids to see it. A little too much gore for even my taste - I'm soft... Older films like Aliens, Predator - That gore doesn't bother me but what comes out recently disturbs me... Maybe I'm getting softer as I get closer to 30. Meh!
But that's my choice. My daughter is 8 and she loves things like Harry Potter and the Avengers - My son is 6 and he's autistic and suffers very vivid and scary dreams on a nightly basis that keep him awake. He freaked within 30 minutes of the Avengers and I had to take him into another room.
I dunno it's a hard line, some kids can handle things other kids cannot. I've always stressed to my kids "it's just a story" I encourage them to come up with stories themselves.
My daughter wants to write a book about magic and said she wants to call the "school" Hogwarts. I told her unless she meant boils on a pig's backside JK would probably sue her so she should pick a better name. But all in all she manages well enough and understands the difference between fantasy and reality.
As for parents taking their kids to this... I'm kinda split. It's their choice no doubt, but it sets my ethic alarm off no end.