To say no to 'Brave' dvd?

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My parents have bought it for DS aged 7. I've just been told by a friend its a PG not a U and is quite scarey in places.
DS is very sensitive to these things, cries at the time and has trouble settling a night and wakes up in the night crying etc. He got upset at Toy Story 3 amongst others.
AIBU to tell parents that they'll have to take it back and swap it, which they won't unless I put my foot down and say its a PG and as a parent I'm putting my foot down.

Um where is the op?

3yo DS2 found it too scary and had to be taken out of the cinema during the scary bear bit. But I would accept the gift with good grace and let him watch it - only a few bits are scary and easy to forward past without losing the point of the film.

My 4yo loved it.

The great thing about DVDs is that you can fast forward a scary bit.

I have a nervous dd who is 6. She declined to see Brave in the cinema as the trailer scared her a little. She watched it on DVD though and it wasn't scary to her at all.

YABU to ask your parents to swap the film.

Agree that you should accept it - watch it yourself first so you can judge how scary your DS is likely to find it, and then either watch it with him and prepare him for the scary bits in advance, or put it away until he's a bit older and won't find it as scary.

I took DD and DNs to see it at the cinema.

My 4 year old DN was a bit scared at the bears, but he was equally squealing with delight at some of the scenes Spoiler alert The triplets mooning

YABU. It's Christmas Eve. First of all, swapping would be a logistical nightmare! Secondly, if ever a child is going to like something you swear he won't, this is it.

Give him a chance - much less scary on tv than in cinema. And if he doesn't like it, put it away until he's a bit older.

I imagine the parents just saw that it was a new Disney film and figured it was suitable - which for most it is. Honestly, if you didn't ever watch a Disney film that had loss in it, you'd never watch a Disney film!!

Snow White - mother dead, wicked stepmother queen/witch
Cinderella - mother and father dead, wicked stepmother
Rescuers - Penny orphaned/both parents dead
Bambi - hunters, mother dead
Little Mermaid - mother most likely dead
Finding Nemo - mother dead
Aristocats - butler tries to off the mother and kittens (no father cat on site, so it's either single mother or father gone)
Tangled - baby snatched from parents by witch and imprisoned
Sleeping Beauty - baby cursed by witch, taken from parents to keep safe, witch becoming huge dragon
Bolt - Penny has no mother
Tarzan - baby's parents killed
the list goes on and on...

My 8yo is scared shitless of everything (has never watched a dvd in school without freaking out, sits in the classroom when the pantomime comes) and he enjoyed it. We have been given a load of dvds that he wouldn't be able to cope with. Say thankyou and put it away until she is ready. Anything else is rude.

My Dd age 7 has Brave wrapped up under the tree, I have no problem with her seeing it.

My 16 yr old has Brave wrapped up under the tree!

One of the reasons given for the pg rating is the rude humour, ie bare bottoms and the implication of bare bottoms under kilts.
The bear is a little scary but i dont see why a 7year old should be overly worried by it.
Its a really lovely film and my 15yr would love a cuddly baby brave bear for christmas, but she has a Stitch instead, which was her other request.

I took my five year old to see Brave at the cinema. She's pretty emotionally robust, I would say, but became so increasingly freaked out by this film that we had to leave during the climactic bit towards the end. It is scary, I would say, both conceptually (I'm surprised people don't understand how a child might be disturbed by the idea of their mother turning into a massive terrifying bear) and visually - very dark and quite gothic in places. It is a great film though - and I do think it'll be less intense and all-consuming on DVD than it was in the cinema.