What age would you let your child watch Jurassic Park?

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My 4 1/2 year old loves dinosaurs and sees posters and bits and bobs with Jurassic park on them, he has asked a few times to watch it. I have said no, what do you think? I feel like he has plenty of time to watch 'scary' films as he gets older, my husband thinks he'd probably be okay with it. Ditto Spider-Man and other marvel
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Depends entirely on the child I think. DD watched it about 4or 5 and liked it (though obv concentration was variable and dipped in and out) but when Teen Wolf was on when she was about 4 she was petrified and climbed me like a tree.

I actually started a thread on this once and the general consensus was that the Jurassic park films are family friendly. But I watched Jurassic Park when it was released I was 7 and I remember being very worried that dinosaurs were actually going to come back and run free around the world (there was lots of talk in the news at this time about the possibility of this happening) and I had nightmares about a T Rex chasing me round the playground in school!

I remember for ages after when I would be hanging out washing & the bushes would rustle & J would expect a raptor to jump out. Having said that I was also scared of sharks in lakes!

Mine watched the original jurassic Park ones at 4. DH and I watched them while the kids were in bed first (as it had been years since we'd seen them) and were comfortable he would be fine, and because we'd just seen them we knew when the 'scary' bits were coming up, so could check he still seemed OK. We also skipped the very first seen, which is a bit grizzly and doesn't really add much to the story line. We waited until nearly 6 for the jurassic world ones.

If you don't think he's ready the lego jurassic world moves are good and child appropriate.

Took my dino mad almost 7 year old grandson to see the new JW film last night. He's loved dinosaurs since he could talk and has seen all the films. Although we wouldn't show them if we thought he would be scared. We also love camp cretaceous and can't wait for season 5 to start soon x

Dd did from 2.5 as she went in teens room and was fascinated. 2 yrs later shes still obsessed

My ds watched the first one when he was about 5, it didn't bother him at all. We watched the 2nd one soon after and he said it was nice that the dinosaurs were sharing when a pair of T-Rex's bit a man in half😄
He's 9 now and really wants to see the new one.

My eldest watched them from 6 or 7, not scared in the slightest.
We've got tickets for the new one on Monday, my two are now 10 & 8, neither of them scare easy (both currently watching stranger things 2).

They both seem to have logic minds that know when something isn't real, and I've never had an issue with nightmares.

I would go with whatever type of child yours is. Mine have never been bothered by guts or gore, but I know that supernatural shit freaks them out so we'd never watch any scary movies like that.

I'm thinking maybe 8ish

My (just) 5yo still gets scared at some bits of octonauts and most of the Disney Princess films are too scary. We've got a while to go before anything beyond mild peril is acceptable here let alone being eaten 😂

It was the first film my DD(4) ever saw. She still loves it now, she would have been 1ish, it started her love of dinosaurs, she can name most of them and tell you different things about them.
We also let her watch Spiderman - she absolutely loves Spiderman! There is Into the Spiderverse and the TV programme Spidey and His Amazing Friends which are a nice introduction into superheroes and Spiderman.

Only you know how your child is going to react, we will be taking DD to the new Jurassic world film, she's desperate to see it.

Used to love Jurassic park! I was scared of ET tho, all kids are different. Otherwise watch the Lego ones 🤷‍♀️

Thanks for the recommendations for the Lego version- we watched one this morning and DS loved it. It was just the right level of tense for him and there's quite a few different episodes to work through.

I'm going to hang on a few years before he sees the real deal.

My 4.5 year old first watched it at 3... loved it!

My 7 year old didn’t enjoy it. He likes the lego Jurassic park though.

Been tonight with my 5 year old he loved it!!

Depends on the child, all mine were fine to watch them at about 4/5

My late father took me to see Land Before Time when it came out I was 6 and I LOVED dinosaurs. Let's just say that my reaction to the film sparked a row between my parents and I still struggle to watch it now. Land Before Time should never be seen as a kid's film and there's a special place in hell for the classification people who deemed it so.

Jurassic Park is probably OK from about age 6. I know I personally would have done better with a Jurassic Park type film at that age than Land Before Time. Mainly because Jaws didn't scare me and I still root for the shark every time I watch the films, even though I know the shark Isn't going to win.

7 I think

My DD is 6 and there are loads of 12 rated films I would let her watch tbh. I've had to say no when she saw the trailer for Venom: Carnage and wanted to watch that though, it's a 15! She doesn't scare easily at all.

Land Before Time should never be seen as a kid's film

Why not? I loved it as a kid and so did DD. I struggle to watch it as an adult but that's because of the mum death scene and how happy he gets seeing her shadow etc. As a kid that didn't bother me. It's not scary etc, just emotional.

As you said, plenty of time to watch potentially scary films later.

My 3 year old loves Jurassic Park. He’ll come and sit in my knee at the scary bits, but quite happily tell me it’s not “for real life” (also loves Bluey)!

I think it depends on the child. DS is desperate to watch it. He's 6 and very sensitive. I think he'll be terrified.

I was 10 and found it quite scary but I do also think there's an element of not being scared when you are a bit too young to consider TV as 'real' but then not old enough to make the genuine distinction it isn't ifyswim.

That's my opinion from my own experience and that of many people I know who also found it traumatic at a similar age.
You're free to have your own opinion, but mine is that the film should not be seen as suitable for children. I've met more people who were traumatised by it as children than those who weren't.

My now 6 year old watched it about age 4 and cried not because it was scary but because her favourite little Dino was killed she was devastated and couldn't watch it again because of that part.