I’m thinking about an outing to the cinema, and the local fleapit is showing Epic. Is it suitable for my niece who is 6? I know it’s got a U rating, so it should be. And will my nephew who’s 10 be too old for it and find it boring?
My girls 13 and 11 liked it. My girlfriend’s boys probably won’t because
There is a kiss
My 7 year old loved it.
I have a 10-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy. They both loved it and we enjoyed it as well.
My 11-year-old girl and 5 1/2-year-old-boy both liked it.
There is a queen of the fairy people who dies in it, but it’s treated more like her life force went into the forest kind of thing
My sensitive 6-year-old loved it. He is easily spooked by mildly frightening scenes (paranorman freaked him out; we left 15 minutes into the movie and he still had nightmares). After our paranorman experience, I was a little worried about Epic. He enjoyed every minute of it. As an added bonus, so did I.
Nothing too scary in it - a few bad guys die in mildly gruesome ways, like falling and splatting into a car windshield like a bug, but that’s about the worst of it. No blood or anything
As far as kids movies go, I found it an inoffensive 90 minutes. Dull, forgettable characters, pretty scenery.
My friend took her 3-year-old to see it. He loved it - although I’m guessing he didn’t understand it completely.
The movie is fairly forgettable, but as I recall (having seen it yesterday) there’s nothing really bad in it. I’d say if your 6 year old can handle Disney movies they can easily handle Epic. Especially if they’ve handled some of the '90s Disney movies (Lion King, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast), which I’d say are in general scarier and more gruesome than Epic. If your kid has handled any Ghibli movie not named “My Neighbor Totoro” they almost certainly handle it.
Really the worst stuff aside from some slightly grim visuals (mostly just bones and dead forests) is more emotional stuff, like the father being consumed by his work to the point of ignoring his daughter and
(ending spoilers, albeit somewhat obvious ones)
The daughter becoming big again. It’s explicit that she still gets to hang out with the Leaf Men, I found that it’s still kind of sad in a fridge logic way that she fell in puppy love with the Handsome Rebel Who Learns About Friendship and can’t really maintain a romance anymore. Certainly nothing a 6 year old would pick up on.