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Old 08-05-2014, 11:42 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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People crack me up with the cursing. It wasn't that much and the "flipping the bird" part wasn't like it was crystal clear. It actually took me a few seconds to realize what he was doing.

Should a 5 year old see it? Not my place to make that call but if a 5 year old can watch Lord Farquaad check out his b*ner under the sheet then seriously, what's the difference?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBZd73YufVs
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Old 08-05-2014, 01:24 PM
 
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One of my 18-year-olds saw it, loved it, but said he didn't think our 10-yr-old should see it. He described it as more thematic issues and some stuff like flipping the bird, profanity.

I stopped being surprised at how parents will just take a kid to any movie, even horror movies.

I guess the fact that it's Marvel AND yes, there is a raccoon etc. makes it seem like a kid movie.

Kind of like Family Guy or the Adult Swim animated shows: cartoons, but NOT for children.
My kid is too young for any movie at this point, but I'd take him to a PG-13 movie before the age of 13 if he could handle it (so far, I think he could, but who knows).

I saw PG-13 and R movies well before 13 years of age. It never really impacted me, because I always realized that it's just a fake movie and the endings were almost always happy anyway.
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Old 08-05-2014, 01:26 PM
 
Location: Brentwood, Tennessee
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My kid is too young for any movie at this point, but I'd take him to a PG-13 movie before the age of 13 if he could handle it (so far, I think he could, but who knows).

I saw PG-13 and R movies well before 13 years of age. It never really impacted me, because I always realized that it's just a fake movie and the endings were almost always happy anyway.
My 10-yr-old watches a lot of PG 13 movies also. I agree you really just have to know your child and know the content of whatever the movie.

I just noted the opinion of one of my older sons since the OP asked specifically about this movie (not knowing, of course, that he was just setting us up and he had already taken his 5-yr-old .)
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Old 08-05-2014, 02:03 PM
 
Location: Space Coast
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It depends on the kid. I'm fairly slack with my eight year old, but I draw the line at sexual content and f-bombs. She understands that movies are fake. I haven't seen the movie the OP is talking about, but I would check it out carefully before taking her.
Her younger sister is a different story. It will be a long time before she is mature enough for any violence. Even the 'bad guys' in classic Disney movies scare her.
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Old 08-05-2014, 03:14 PM
 
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People crack me up with the cursing. It wasn't that much and the "flipping the bird" part wasn't like it was crystal clear. It actually took me a few seconds to realize what he was doing.

Should a 5 year old see it? Not my place to make that call but if a 5 year old can watch Lord Farquaad check out his b*ner under the sheet then seriously, what's the difference?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBZd73YufVs
Seriously????? I watched this a few times and first of all, if you blinked, you'd miss him looking under the blanket, and second of all, a 5 year old would have absolutely no idea the correlation between seeing a pretty girl and getting a boner. I'm sorry, but this particular argument is riDICulous, excuse the pun.
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Old 08-05-2014, 10:59 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
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I don't have any problems letting my 6 and/or 8 year old watch certain PG-13 movies...stuff like Spiderman, Pirates, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, etc it's all fairly mild. I don't think I've let them ever see an R rated movie. Maybe snippets. They know they are just movies. If there is a lot of cursing or nudity I will send them out, though.
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Old 08-05-2014, 11:04 PM
 
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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I doubt a five year old can tell what is going on.
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Old 08-06-2014, 01:26 PM
 
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I doubt a five year old can tell what is going on.
Why would you say that? Many kids that age are quite capable of following a plot.... mine certainly was.

We went to GotG last night.... there were a few kids..... well behaved and seemed to enjoy it. Nothing in that movie that a child that is able to tell fictional behavior from real life couldn't handle.... and a great lesson on friendship.
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Old 08-06-2014, 02:32 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Shocking is going to a GWAR concert and seeing a 6 year old being crowdsurfed. (Been there seen that. Can't believe the shows are for the most part all ages. Insanity.)

My 2 sons are ages 12 and 15. Behaviorally and for maturity, they meet up somewhere in the middle. I don't have issues with them seeing most movies, but my own tastes color it kind of heavily. We'll be going to see Guardians I think. I usually favor visual-effects-heavy action films.

My 12 year old has been begging me for the GTA video games since a friend of his got one. My answer to that is an unequivocal NO. Never. Not in my house. You're gonna have to grow up and buy that yourself, kiddo.

I don't have issues with nudity but I do have issues with sex, particularly as presented in an exploitative and unloving manner. But for crying out loud...I'm saying I'd rather let the boys watch a documentary about people walking around naked (which we have) just going about their lives, as opposed to that one Carl's Jr commercial with Paris Hilton in it. Americans have more issues with sexual content than violence in general. It's sad, but that's how our culture tends to be, and I can't get past it either. Watching sex with the kids is uncomfortable in ways that watching all but the most graphic of violence just isn't.
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Old 08-06-2014, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Shocking is going to a GWAR concert and seeing a 6 year old being crowdsurfed. (Been there seen that. Can't believe the shows are for the most part all ages. Insanity.)

My 2 sons are ages 12 and 15. Behaviorally and for maturity, they meet up somewhere in the middle. I don't have issues with them seeing most movies, but my own tastes color it kind of heavily. We'll be going to see Guardians I think. I usually favor visual-effects-heavy action films.

My 12 year old has been begging me for the GTA video games since a friend of his got one. My answer to that is an unequivocal NO. Never. Not in my house. You're gonna have to grow up and buy that yourself, kiddo.

I don't have issues with nudity but I do have issues with sex, particularly as presented in an exploitative and unloving manner. But for crying out loud...I'm saying I'd rather let the boys watch a documentary about people walking around naked (which we have) just going about their lives, as opposed to that one Carl's Jr commercial with Paris Hilton in it. Americans have more issues with sexual content than violence in general. It's sad, but that's how our culture tends to be, and I can't get past it either. Watching sex with the kids is uncomfortable in ways that watching all but the most graphic of violence just isn't.
Just a funny side comment. A number of years ago my daughter was watching the show "Q***r as Folks" on TV. She suggested that I should watch an episode with her. Although, the writing seemed pretty good initially, after a couple of pretty risqué scenes my daughter turned off the TV and commented to me rather dryly "I guess that it isn't a very good idea for a mom & her teenage daughter to watch male gay porn together."

Her comment was so darn funny that we laughed ourselves silly.

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