I agree with E.G. that PG-13 was sufficient, but some of the scenes were definitely pushing the envelope.
I took my 12-yr-old son, and he didn't seem disturbed. If I had seen the movie first myself, I would still have taken Zack to see it, but with us and not a group of his friends, per se. I'd always prefer that we're there to discuss anything that bothered him, etc.
All that said, my worry with the PG-13 rating is that it won't be enough to dissuade parents from taking even *younger* kids. Too many parents will be thinking, "It's a comic book movie - how disturbing can it be?" Example: there was a mother sitting behind us in the theater with two kids that could only have been 5 yrs old. Not good.
Edit: One more comment. I'm pretty certain that for marketing reasons, the producers did everything possible to obtain the PG-13 rating (vs. R) to ensure a broader audience.
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Tue, 07/22/2008 - 9:32am
I agree with E.G. that PG-13 was sufficient, but some of the scenes were definitely pushing the envelope.
I took my 12-yr-old son, and he didn't seem disturbed. If I had seen the movie first myself, I would still have taken Zack to see it, but with us and not a group of his friends, per se. I'd always prefer that we're there to discuss anything that bothered him, etc.
All that said, my worry with the PG-13 rating is that it won't be enough to dissuade parents from taking even *younger* kids. Too many parents will be thinking, "It's a comic book movie - how disturbing can it be?" Example: there was a mother sitting behind us in the theater with two kids that could only have been 5 yrs old. Not good.
Edit: One more comment. I'm pretty certain that for marketing reasons, the producers did everything possible to obtain the PG-13 rating (vs. R) to ensure a broader audience.
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