I would be interested to hear peoples opions of the youngest age they think this film is suitable for. It is a PG in the UK, but i think young children would find it quite disturbing. I am planning a Festival screening so would welcome some feedback on this.
shareI think it's good for all ages. There isn't any outright offensive content at all. It might scare a few kids but is that really a bad thing? I'm sure it will be a very positive and memorable experience for any kid whether it scares them or not.
shareThanks for your reply. I have also spoken with another Festival who programmed it and apparently it was mostly adults and art students who came and only a few kids. Would be interested to hear a few other view points on this.
shareAs a little kid, my parents would go to the library to borrow videos for me to watch, and for some reason this was one of them. I was 5 or 6 when I first saw this, and I rewatched it recently (I am 25 now). I remember having nightmares about that rabbit coming after me with a hacksaw.
shareIt is much creepier than the Alices we're used to. But I would say that this movie is very quiet and may not be enough to hold the attention of some younger children.
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My ten year old loved it.
shareHm, good question. I watched this recently and liked it a lot but I know most certainly that I would have been creeped out and had nightmares if I would have seen this as a child. Someone's ten-year-old here loved it, so this is probably quite individual. But if you ask me, I wouldn't show it to anyone younger than ten (or even eleven).
(oh, yeah and my answer is probably a bit late!)
"Do you like me more than you don't like me or do you not like me more than you do?"
Personally, as a child, I enjoyed dark movies. James And the Giant Peach and Beetlejuice were some of my favorites. My best friend and I always talk about how i watched the strangest movies while she stuck to Winnie the Pooh and The Little Mermaid.
So I suppose it would depend on the child and their personality.
Although i think that since there is so little dialogue in this film, younger audiences might get bored with it.
I watched this tonight for the first time -- with my two daughters, almost 4 and 9, and my 6-year-old son. My youngest asked for Alice in Wonderland, and I gave her the option of either Disney version or the one some people consider "creepy."
She chose it on that basis and was glued to it for most of an hour, as were her siblings. We all agreed that parts were indeed creepy, but nothing too intense, just the puppet design.
However, many people have told me their 8-9-10 year old kids couldn't handle Ghostbusters, and my kids have been watching that since infancy, so maybe mine are just conditioned to handle it better than others.
I think kids need to watch things that creep them out and push the envelope, we just avoid excuessive cruelty and sadism. I'd hate to have my kids grow up to discount off-beat or weird movies because they were brought up with a narrow sense of what is appropriate for them.
This is in no way a film meant for children. I'd say the youngest age would be around 13.
"I have always valued my lifelessness."
It's definitely not meant for children. This doesn't mean that children shouldn't watch it though: it's the type of movie that may make them laugh with its weirdness and it will probably become for them one of those bizarre childhood memories that we end up revisiting when we're adults. I generally think that children are more open to surrealism than the average adult and it's always good to fuel their imagination with as many forms of art as possible.
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