Loud kid at Wall-E matinee

[Scurvy]

Like I said, perhaps the point of contention then lies with the MPAA ratings. WALL-E is a G-rated movie by MPAA standards.

The MPAA definition does not say "All ages admitted except those who cannot behave themselves." That would be entirely different.

I can't believe this debate is all about the WALL-E movie.

Okay, I think I see the problem. You do know, don't you, that the ratings aren't a legal guideline for who has to be allowed into a theater? They are guidelines for the age requirements to be allowed in to different movies. A theater showing Wall-E could decide not to allow anyone under age 13, if they chose to do that. Fortunately for the parents with well behaved children, most theaters do not choose to do that. They will, however, ask people to leave if they are disturbing other patrons. It doesn't matter how old they are. Age and behavior are two separate things.

I don't think this debate is just about Wall-E. It's about acceptable behavior in the movie theater.

 

[Scurvy]

Seriously though, how do we (meaning all the posters) really know? Other than the op and the people actually there none of us (once again refering to the posters) on this thread could in reality possibly know exactly how loud the child in question was.

We know how loud she was because in the initial post, the OP said this: "I took my 5 yo and my 2.5 yo to the 11:15 matinee of Wall-E. The 2.5 yo was a little loud. She wasn't crying or screaming or anything like that, she was just asking questions or making statements about the movie (Oh, the buggy's leaving. Is that a robot? - stuff like that). She was using a regular voice, but her regular voice is loud for a movie theater. I kept asking her to be quiet or to wisper, but she's 2.5, so it wasn't working." If even her father says her voice was a little loud for the theater, I think we can assume her voice was a little loud for the theater.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

Okay, I think I see the problem. You do know, don't you, that the ratings aren't a legal guideline for who has to be allowed into a theater? They are guidelines for the age requirements to be allowed in to different movies. A theater showing Wall-E could decide not to allow anyone under age 13, if they chose to do that. Fortunately for the parents with well behaved children, most theaters do not choose to do that. They will, however, ask people to leave if they are disturbing other patrons. It doesn't matter how old they are. Age and behavior are two separate things.

I don't think this debate is just about Wall-E. It's about acceptable behavior in the movie theater.

Yes the theater reserves the right to do that but in this case the theater was not involved at all just one group of patrons. I do not believe that movie theaters have a policy that gives patrons the power to make other patrons leave at thier will.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

We know how loud she was because in the initial post, the OP said this: "I took my 5 yo and my 2.5 yo to the 11:15 matinee of Wall-E. The 2.5 yo was a little loud. She wasn't crying or screaming or anything like that, she was just asking questions or making statements about the movie (Oh, the buggy's leaving. Is that a robot? - stuff like that). She was using a regular voice, but her regular voice is loud for a movie theater. I kept asking her to be quiet or to wisper, but she's 2.5, so it wasn't working." If even her father says her voice was a little loud for the theater, I think we can assume her voice was a little loud for the theater.

True but are parents clearly objective when it came to thier own kids al the time? This dad was already made to feel bad by the other patrons.

In truth the only way any of us could know for a fact how her voice actually sounded in the theater was to have been there and heard it.

 

[dis ms.]

Seriously though, how do we (meaning all the posters) really know? Other than the op and the people actually there none of us (once again refering to the posters) on this thread could in reality possibly know exactly how loud the child in question was..

You're right, I don't know how loud the child was. I was going off of this description by the OP himself: "...her regular voice is loud for a movie theater." Since people actually complained, I figured the OP was correct in his assessment of his daughter's excessive volume. If she wasn't being loud, I take it all back.

I do not believe that movie theaters have a policy that gives patrons the power to make other patrons leave at thier will.

Maybe I missed something. I didn't see where anyone made the OP leave. Some people complained, but the OP left of his own accord.