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
Films!

That's my opinion from my own experience and that of many people I know who also found it traumatic at a similar age.

I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, I'm more fascinated as to why you felt that way. Sorry.

As in, was it the emotional parts, or were there specific parts that were very scary to you?

I don't know anyone who was traumatised by the land before time

Now watership down....

I waited til DD was 9. My nephew watched them at age 4 - dinosaur obsessed and didnt understand why it should be frightening so had zero impact on him. I think it's more frightening when you can understand it properly rather than just waiting to see some dinosaurs popping up on the scream and shouting "look daddy, T rex!"

We were discussing going to see the latest with nine year old yesterday... and remembered she didn't make it through the last one at 7yo at home. So going to do that first...

The 11yo will be going nowhere near it!

My 4 year old watched them but my 10 year old still won't watch them, I think it depends on the child.

Tried watching it with my 7 and nearly 9 year old DSs, and they completely freaked out! So it will probably be in the early teens here!

My son watched Jurassic World at home when he was five or six. He’d watched loads of David Attenborough, loads of kids dinosaur films and it didn’t bother him at all. He jumped a bit at Jurassic Park though. I’m debating whether to take him to watch the new film in the cinema (he’s seven), but I think the experience is so much bigger that he might struggle. What’s your child like? I’m happy with monster 12a films, but would never let him watch spooky 12a films at this stage- he finds that kind of content much scarier.

My dc were raised on the Jurassic Park films. I think they are fine, just skip through the T Rex eating the man on the toilet and the raptors chasing the kids in the kitchen.

My 3.5 year old son watched this last night- my husband thought it would be too scary for him (he thinks Aladdin is too scary) but he loved it. Didn't find it scary at all until the bit in the kitchen with the raptors, which we skipped past. I think this is actually perfect for boys at the dinosaur stage.

DS watched all the Jurassic World / Park films from age 5 and was fine with them. I wouldn't let him watch some of the same age rated Marvel films etc though, mainly due to the swearing.
Maybe watch them yourself first and see what you think.

We have just let him watch it at 10. It's a 12A.