My wife is away, babysitting isn’t an option where I am right now, and I’m really jonesing to see the movie. Would it be acceptable to take my daughter?
You don’t know her, of course, so here’s some background:
She’s seen the Christopher Reeve Superman about a hundred times.
She’s seen all three real Star Wars movies. (If I can get her to age 21 without seeing the three prequels, my tenure as a parent will have been successful.)
She’s seen—and loved—both Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.
I saw Thor without her. I think the monster at the beginning in Frost Giant World might have been a bit too intense for her, but nothing else (including the metal giant flamethrower thing) would be unacceptable.
I think so. There’s nothing gory like what happens to the Green Goblin in Spider Man. The main baddie is a space monster. When he kills people he does it by sucking energy from their bodies. For some reason, the energy is shaped like their skeleton. One of the secondary baddies becomes deformed with a grotesquely swollen head.
Otherwise, there’s some bad language, a middle finger, and discussion of sex, but that’s about it.
ETA: I didn’t see Thor, so I don’t know about the one thing that was possibly to scary for her. I do know that the aforementioned scene in Spider Man seemed too graphic to me for the tone of the movie, but my baby sister saw it when she was four and wasn’t bothered by it at all.
Yeah, see, I was deliberately avoiding that, because I believe every kid is different. I figured it was more useful to describe what she can handle and what she can’t.
If she can handle Star Wars, she can more than handle Green Lantern. But only if you buy her junk food from the concession stand. And the new Bieber CD.
IDK, I didn’t find it particularly full of kid unfriendly stuff. But if she doesn’t like frost giants, this movie IS chock full of weird aliens, and the two villains and most of the heroes are weird looking aliens (or mutant). Star Wars was chock full of weird aliens both good and bad, but it’s possible the muppet/CGI dichotomy might make some sort of difference to her.
FYI, the IMDB.com is usually helpful as a parental guide - it gets pretty specific in terms of what exactly is in each movie, so you can pick and choose which things as a parent you happen to be concerned about (although this is of course dependent on user input which might not appear on premiere day).
