Loved it - 12 year old. Totally fine

DH took our 10.5 year old to see it and he really liked it. He does not scare easily and is mature for his age. The nudity does not bother me a bit and the language does not bother me because DS knows the difference between what we see on screen (or read in a book) and what we do in real life.

Anonymous wrote:Ok, folks, do you think your 9 or 10 year old "got it" - the nuances of the story?

We're they asking you what someone meant or what was going on throughout the movie?

While ok for them, would it be better for them at 12 just in terms of getting more from the movie?

Because everyone is in a rush to grow their kids up as fast as possible. Sad, isn't it?

My recommendation was 12, but mainly because kids 8-12 might be bored at some of the longer stretches of the film. Yes there is language, a butt shot and a kind of gory incident in the beginning but not the end of the world. The storm scene might scare the under 6 crowd as it is dark and loud.

"Work the problem" is a great message from the movie. Solve the little problems first so that the big "impossible" problems start to become more manageable. It's a great message from the movie and one that can be taught to kids of any age. We have gone over some of those points with our teen who saw the movie pointing out how they would try, fail, and try again. I actually thought it was kind of inspiring in an Apollo 13 kind of way.

I took my 10 year old and she really liked it. I asked her why she thought it was PG-13. SHe said there was that gory surgery scene (I closed my eyes), the f-word a few times, but totally appropriately used and once it was written not spoken, she thought it was OK) and you see his naked butt once. She thought and I agree there was no reason a 10 year old interested in science shouldn't see this movie.

Did she get everything? Probably not. Hardest would be the implications of adding another 2 years to your journey, voluntarily, and how hard that would be on your family back home.

Ok, folks, do you think your 9 or 10 year old "got it" - the nuances of the story?

We're they asking you what someone meant or what was going on throughout the movie?

While ok for them, would it be better for them at 12 just in terms of getting more from the movie?

Took my 1st grader (age 6) this weekend. She loved it, although I doubt she understood a lot of it. She keeps talking about growing potatoes in poop now.

As far as the curse words, I think they mostly went over her head, as did probably a lot of the other "scientific" words in the movie. She doesn't know the meaning of ALL the words in the English language yet (nor do I).

DH just took our 7 y.o. to it today and she loved it. I had pre-screened it and thought, some language aside, it was one of the more kid-friendly movies I'd seen in a while. In terms of clear, comprehensive plot and no complicated adult relationships.

I have taken my 9-year old girl, and she loved it. Cursing doesn't bother me, I have been known to drop a bomb or two on occasion. Not my best parenting moment, but if that's the worst my kids will be exposed to, I will count myself very lucky. My kids know that they can't use those words. As for the "nudity", it was totally fine, it was actually pretty poignant because the point was to show how emaciated he has become due to lack of food, so it wasn't sexual at all, rather, it was used to get the message through very succinctly. The only part my DD had an issue with was when he had to clean his wound at the beginning, and she just closed her eyes, I told her when it was done. Many adults do the same, so no issues there either. Afterwards we talked a lot about not giving up and problem solving.

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Anonymous wrote:I am seriously considering taking my 7 and 9 year old girls. They are all about the space stuff. I read the book and didn't find anything offensive in it (except for some language, but nothing they haven't heard before).

7 is way too young. It is intense, loud, cursing, etc... 10 would be the youngest I would take a child and only if they can sit for 2+ hours and truly understand what is going on.

And nakedness

Pp here with the 7 and 9 YO. DH saw it on Friday and we are all going to see it today. I don't have a problem with cursing (I am sure they have heard worse), my 7 YO is sturdy and not afraid of loud noises or easily scared. And Matt Damon's backside has... aesthetic value My main concern is that they might be bored by some of the more sciency parts, not fully understanding the implications.

I will report back on how they did though.

NP - this was not a 1st grade appropriate film. There is nudity, gore, tons of F bombs and it is 2.5hrs long not including 10min of intense previews. The fact that your 7yr old has seen or heard worse is extremely sad. Kids are only young kids for so long. They do not need to be rushed into the PG-13 world so soon. I am guessing by 10 they will be watching rated R?

How can kids avoid the "f" word? I pass teenagers in the grocery store saying it all the time. There's no shame in public anymore about speaking like that.

So you are saying because some teens may saying it passing by that you are okay with a 7yr old watching movies with F-bombs? My 7yr old has no idea about that word so even if they heard it passing by it wouldn't be a "bad" word. Her S word is stupid and D word is dumb. Not all parents raise their kids around awful language and just shrug their shoulders. But sitting them down to watch a movie with the word repeated in it, is condoning it is okay. At that age they don't know any better.

We talked about the language with our 11 and 12 yr olds, who certainly have heard it outside our house but know we don't allow them to talk like that (at least around us!). I said watching a movie with those words doesn't mean they are allowed to talk like that but if they are ever stranded on Mars they have my permission to express their frustration in anyway they want to 12 yr old DS commented that he thought it was pretty restrained...it takes a while for the astronaut to say f*** after discovering he's been pierced by a piece of metal.

it was a very Hollywood-ized vision of space exploration snark included. It was entertaining though so it served its purpose.

My 10 year old saw it this weekend and said it was amazing and just a little bit scary and wants to see it again. Totally appropriate.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else taken their younger ones? Your thoughts?

I 2nd the PP who talked about how the movie is really about problem solving and not giving up

plus lots of NASA porn

there was even a shout out to internat'l collab

great movie !

My kid would have gotten it at 5

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Anonymous wrote:The movie was fine for our group of 12-year-olds, it was the trailers that were the problem! They were ridiculously scary.

Yes, the trailers were horrible. I wonder why they thought those movies would be appealing to us.

The trailers we saw were for The Walk, Jungle Book, and Star Wars. (The theatre audience applauded for Star Wars!)

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I wish! At the Uptown were trailers for a movie called Suicide Forest, a scary looking remake of Point Break, tv show American Horror Story, etc. it was truly scary and inappropriate.

Actually, I was glad to see the preview for " Concussion" . It looks like it may be a good movie and I am really glad my 12 year old son and his friend got an inkling about the new finding related to brain damge from football ( 4 dead HS students in just this month alone)

Anonymous wrote:This movie must really appeal to a lot of kids; it's the first non-kid oriented movie my 10 yo has requested to see in theaters. Still debating.

Me too.