Stardust Question!

[bekkio]

How kid-friendly is this movie? PG-13 movies are always a crapshoot for my daughters, what do you think?

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[pixiedancer]

Aww, I'd just like to say I have almost the same icon the "friends" is just in different writing. Then about "Stardust" I have heard good things about it, but have yet to see it myself. By the time I see it and could give you a review others probably will have already said their bit:)

[estrella_bonita]

I took Delaney to see it Friday evening. It was a little intense for her at some parts - there was violence, but a good portion of it was implied off screen (the three witches have a collection of animals they keep on hand so they can slaughter and read their entrails - the killing of the animal is implied but the reading of the entrails is in view for everyone). There was also innuendo and Robert Deniro in a corset, which is sorta frightening in itself. Hee. But overall she loved it and wants to see it again. :)

[1anonymous1]

Like someone said above, theres lots of implied stuff (animal slaughter, sex, etc.). There was a kid sitting next to me in the theater (about 5 or 6 years old? Maybe?) and he didn't seem to bothered by a lot of the stuff. They might've been a little bored actually. A lot of the jokes went right over their heads. The violence wasn't so bad, at least to me, but then I've seen a lot of movies so it's hard to bother me.

Anyway, I think 10+ year olds should be fine. Below that it just depends on the kid, I guess. Hope that helps?

[bad_influence]

I haven't seen it yet and will be seeing it come next week, but I've read the book. I'd be a little wary, but then people have been saying most of the stuff is off screen, so it may be alright.

But in the book there is sex, violence (slaughtering of animal to get entrails, graphic deaths of people/animals, zombie animal, beheading of the zombie animal), and people magically turned into animals (which not sure if that could be traumatizing depending on how they do it and the child's mindset).

I hope that helps.

[kei_rin]

There is nothing to explicitly gory in the film; there are parts that might be scary and such but anything that a 13 year-old wouldn't be able to handle is off screen or implied that it happened off screen. I know I loved the movie when I saw on Sunday. On the line between Disney fairytales (meaning a five year old would be fine seeing it) and Grimm fairytales (meaning it's definitely for adults), I'd say the movie Stardust is right between those two leaning a bit (but only a little bit) towards nicer family friendly Disney fairytales (so it should be okay for kids in there early teens).