Toy Story 3 not appropriate for a 5 year old - am I overreacting?

[Anonymous]

So I guess renting Halloween 3 for my 6 yo was a bad move on my part, eh?

[Anonymous]

Took my 3 and 5 yo yesterday to the non-3D version. 3 yo was fine, 5 yo covered her ears for most of the movie and was crying with fear during the fire scene and from the creepy monkey with the cymbals (those toys always scared the hell out of me too!) I think she would have been fine at home but the movie was so unnecessarily loud and had sensory overload.

The scariest part was actually the previews - they were for movies that I would never take children 3 and 5 to see and they too were excruciating loud. Am I just an old fart or do they crank the volume up too much in the theaters?

[Anonymous]

I totally agree about the previews! Awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a mother of an almost 4 year old - who doesn't like watching Clifford or Sponge Bob because it is "too scary" - I am amazed at what they put in cartoons. A lot of them have "scary" part. Maybe some kids aren't phased by them, but mine sure is. So OP, don't take the critisms to heart. People sometimes forget that not all kids are alike.

Clifford - the big, red dog? scary?

If HE frightens your 4 yo, I suspect that your child hasn't been exposed to much.

seriously, PP - what the hell?

My 6 yo daughter wants to be a ghost hunter when she grows up. Now THAT'S exposure!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the movie was excellent and appropriate for a 5 or 6 year old. My 4 year old fell asleep.

Someone once told me that over-stimulation can make children fall asleep. His example was a movie theatre.

[Anonymous]

Could someone compare the "darkness" of this movie to the Princess and the Frog, which I hated and my 4 yo didn't really enjoy.

I want light and fluffy -- bunnies, ponies, etc -- for movies for a 4 yo. Is that so hard?

[Anonymous]

I thought the scary scenes at the end were way too long for the target audience. I wonder how tours or field trips to the recycling center are going with the preK-K groups after they have seen this movie.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone compare the "darkness" of this movie to the Princess and the Frog, which I hated and my 4 yo didn't really enjoy.

I want light and fluffy -- bunnies, ponies, etc -- for movies for a 4 yo. Is that so hard?

My 4 yo did just fine with Toy Story 3 and Shrek. Now...I didn't take him, my MIL did b/c she is a movie junkie. But my sons have already seen the rest of the Toy Stories and Shreks so I thought they could handle it. If your kid only watches fluff all the time, then I suggest forgoing the movies altogether until they are older. Stick with Dora/Diego and the Wonder Pets on Nick Jr. and save your money...

And for what it is worth, neither of my kids like the Princess and the Frog either. Too boring and weird for them.

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Just saw the movie with my teenagers. Frankly I think the movie is aimed at teens who grew up with the first 2 movies (I think we saw the first one in theaters when my youngest was about 5) and at parents. All the toys are clearly aimed at parents - they are all from our childhoods, not our children's. Most of the audience in the showing we saw was teens and older kids, and adults.

[Anonymous]

My six year old is not sleeping properly right now becasue of Toy Story 3 today. She went today and it was only her second movie at the theatre and we thought it would be okay but not for a sensitive kid! I was not with her, my dh was, so I cannot comment on the movie. I believe it was not so much scary for her but just too sad in parts. Lesson learned.

[Anonymous]

I agree about the volume. Even I find the volume in movie theaters to be unnecessarily loud. It can't be good for tiny kids to have 2 hours of that exposure!

[Anonymous]

I went with two three-year-olds and a five-year-old. None of them were traumatized or even talked about it much afterwards. The three-year-olds were really into the popcorn.

I was surprised (not having seen the other two movies) at how scary the trash facility scenes were, and I was worried that the kids would be scared, but it didn't seem to faze them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could someone compare the "darkness" of this movie to the Princess and the Frog, which I hated and my 4 yo didn't really enjoy.

I want light and fluffy -- bunnies, ponies, etc -- for movies for a 4 yo. Is that so hard?

My 4 yo did just fine with Toy Story 3 and Shrek. Now...I didn't take him, my MIL did b/c she is a movie junkie. But my sons have already seen the rest of the Toy Stories and Shreks so I thought they could handle it. If your kid only watches fluff all the time, then I suggest forgoing the movies altogether until they are older. Stick with Dora/Diego and the Wonder Pets on Nick Jr. and save your money...

And for what it is worth, neither of my kids like the Princess and the Frog either. Too boring and weird for them.

Thanks. 19:06 poster here. Don't get my wrong -- my 4 yo has seen a lot of non fluffy disney movies and cartoons and doesn't seem too faxed. BUT I WANT light and fluffy! I am still shaking my head at the Dancing Princesses at Imagination Stage last month. It depressed me for days!

[Anonymous]

I'm 36 and I got scared watching it! overall, it was a great movie, but honestly so much of it was so too dark for my tastes. I'd rather have seen more of Wish more of "Spanish Buzz" and Mr. Tortilla Man.

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Pp here - please disregard typos in last post.