Would you take your 7 year old to see Ender's Game?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved it.

No. The protagonist beats a classmate to a pulp, and later in a bathroom fight, leaves another classmate brain damaged. I don't think I would want a 7 year old to hear (paraphrased) "The first punch was for this fight. The rest of the violence was fighting future attacks."

I admit, that scene worked much better with Ender as a six year old.

I don't think it was diminished with him older. I just think that ender's cold statement was one of the most inappropriate thing for a seven year old in the whole movie.

[Anonymous]

It is rated PG-13 for a reason. 12yr old, maybe but a 7 year old??? They should be watching Disney movies.

I didn't see anyone that age in the theater when we went and would be shocked if we did.

[Anonymous]

My 8 year old loved it. No trauma.

[Anonymous]

Yes why not.

My SIL and I took all our kids ages 6,7,9 &12

We all loved it

[Anonymous]

My 8 year old loved the book but I was wondering the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's funny that we are taking small kids to a movie based on a book about how children can be conditioned to violence by pretending its a game.

Agreed. Because what second grader doesn't need a good strong dose of violent dystopia to round out his/her week?

Sorry, OP, you sound like a thoughtful person, but no, stream the Incredibles or Wallace and Grommit for your 7-year-old instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny that we are taking small kids to a movie based on a book about how children can be conditioned to violence by pretending its a game.

Agreed. Because what second grader doesn't need a good strong dose of violent dystopia to round out his/her week?

Sorry, OP, you sound like a thoughtful person, but no, stream the Incredibles or Wallace and Grommit for your 7-year-old instead.

+1

If you really step back and think about it, no child should be seeing a movie like this. I think people get the idea that a kid is in it so it is fid friendly. But it is not G or PG and certainly not kid-friendly. I can't imagine if you let 7yr olds watch teen movies, what they will be watching as 13yr old. Slasher/sex movies??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if a fourth grader can properly process what's going on, though. You've got the older brother who hides his violent sociopathies in order to obtain power- the younger brother who resists violence until the last moment only to unleash devestation on his opponent- and, finally, the adults in charge who, instead of protecting children from violence, subtly use it to groom their toy soldiers. Is a nine year old going to pick up on all that or will it be reduced to "Eeeww, vivisected squirrels- oh wait! Awesome battle school!"?

A lot of that is actually cut from the movie. I just saw it last night and they had to cut out much of those subtle plot points and entire side plots are not in the movie (most all of Peter and Valentine are cut out, Peter is in it for about 2 minutes total)