Can I take my 4 year old to Star Trek?

[Rebelmom67]

I am glad that he had no issues, but I admit it, I hate seeing little kids in PG 13 or R rated movies. In my experience, more often than not the kid ends up talking loudly or crying when the violence gets to be too much for them (and I would have definitely considered the violence of Star Trek to be too much for a young child). And then the parents get mad at the kid and won't take them out so the rest of the theatre gets to listen to their child crying for the rest of the movie.

When the 3rd Harry Potter came out, my friends and I went to the midnight showing at Downtown Disney after work. People had dragged infants and toddlers to the movie. Imagine our surprise when the manager came out onto the stage before the movie to hand out prizes and to announce the rules. He practically got a standing ovation when he announced that all crying children were to be immediately taken to the lobby!

In my opinion, you never know how a child that young will react to a movie in the theatre and the best thing to do is wait for it to come out on DVD and rent it so they can watch it in teh comfort of their own home and if they freak out they do not disturb everybody else.

I'm pretty sure the OP can gauge how her child will react, he is 4, not 4 months. He has already seen spiderman and batman without incident.

OP, Star Trek was tame and my kids loved it.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I'm pretty sure the OP can gauge how her child will react, he is 4, not 4 months. He has already seen spiderman and batman without incident.

OP, Star Trek was tame and my kids loved it.

That is your opinion, I stand by mine. As long as you are willing to take your screaming child out of the the theatre have at it. That does not mean that people are giong to be excited to see your child there. Kids change all the time and what may be fine to them one day is suddenly frightening the next. IMO, movies are given ratings for a reason. I don't think a kid who's too young to even be in school should be in a PG-13 movie. If you want to take your child to a PG-13 movie that young fine, just don't subject everybody else to their crying/talking. Be prepared to leave the theatre if need be.

 

[okeydokey]

Generally, if it's PG-13 my kids need to be 13 too see it. That ways there's no pleading and argueing either, 13 means 13.

 

[WDWBarb]

I didn't know the movie was rated PG-13 until I saw this thread. I've seen it twice now and was very surprised by the rating.

My DD is 15 (or will be tomorrow!) and doesn't want to see it, so it was a non-issue for us.

The only reason that I can imagine for the PG-13 rating is the sheer number of deaths involved - even if the vast majority of them are only referred to and never direction "seen."

Spoiler alert, highlight to read:

I'm referring to the destruction of the planet Vulcan which kills billions of people.

 

[java]

Generally, if it's PG-13 my kids need to be 13 too see it. That ways there's no pleading and argueing either, 13 means 13.

I'm not that much of a stikler to that. PG13 is a newer rating. It covers so many different areas- it could be a simple curse word. Or kissing? or something blows up.
I generally try to do it on a movie by movie basis. I don't think I'm scarring him for life by letting him see it. George of the Jungle was rated PG13 and my older kids wouldn't have been caught dead watching it. To me the PG means parental guidance. So I try to look at it on a movie by movie basis.

I do understand though it is a simplier way to handle it. No until you are 13. Do you have any kids older? That's when it gets grey- for me anyway. It wasn't at a night showing we went to the 1PM show.

By the way the movie was AMAZING!!

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Actually, the rating does not surprise me at all. I really can't remember any sexual or profane elements (if they exist they obviously did not make an impression upon me) but I do remember quite a bit of violence- both in terms of physical fighting and of course the blowing things up category. I can easily see why that would be too intense for some children.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I didn't know the movie was rated PG-13 until I saw this thread. I've seen it twice now and was very surprised by the rating.

My DD is 15 (or will be tomorrow!) and doesn't want to see it, so it was a non-issue for us.

The only reason that I can imagine for the PG-13 rating is the sheer number of deaths involved - even if the vast majority of them are only referred to and never direction "seen."

Spoiler alert, highlight to read:

I'm referring to the destruction of the planet Vulcan which kills billions of people.

I was surprised, too. I didn't even realize it was PG13, actually, until I took my son to see it. He is six and tolerated it fine.

 

[GraysMom]

Well we went. And we were at the Rave- with those big comfy seats and sure enough he fell asleep! So the rest of us enjoyed the movie very much and he got a good nap! (although he'll tell you he liked it and it wasn't scary at all and his favorite part- which he slept through but heard his brother talking about)

I love the Rave theater setup . I take DS4 when they do their free summer movies for kids.