to say DS is still too young for Jurassic Park?

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DS1 is 7. He is dino mad - as in wants to be a palaeontologist, reads fact books about them, keen to learn the proper names of all the lesser known ones and has been the same since he was 4 - more than just a kids passing fancy basically.

He is desperate to watch Jurassic Park, which is a PG. DH thinks he would be ok to watch it, I still freak out about the dilophosaurus in the car and the severed arm etc. so think not yet.

However he has watched and loved and is not scared by: All 3 Hobbit films, all three Lord of the Rings films and the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films and the original 3 Star Wars films. We started him watching these by fast fowarding through the more gruesome battle scenes about a year ago and he was fine so then let him watch the full films. no nightmares, no worries, he watches them on loop on the evenings he's allowed to watch before bed. All of these he asked to watch, we didn't offer, and was started by his love of dragons (we originally just showed him Smaug from Hobbit and it developed from there).

DH says if he is fine with all of those he will be fine with JP. My worry is that all of the others are clearly fantasy. JP is based in the real world, dinos were real and its premise is they could come back through science - JP2 has the T-rex loose in america etc. I think this could cause issues.

DH is not pushing it at all, but DS looks longingly at the DVDs are keeps asking when he can watch them.

So AIBU to not allow him to watch them? Am i projecting my own jumpiness from when i first watched JP (as a young girly teen) onto the situation? What age did your DC watch JP?

Sorry its long, trying to give context of the type of kid DS is!

I saw Jurassic Park when I was about 7 and the eye through the car window burned into my brain. I have a recurring dream of being chased by a dinosaur still to this day, which always ends by the Dino finding me, looking at me with that big eye and gobbling me up.

I don't even find the film scary, nor am I easily scared, by the way. Just really 'stuck' with me for some reason!

I would not let a 7 year old watch lord of the rings!

My DS was 4-5 and loves that film - laughs at the scary bits but we do keep telling him it's not real

I watched it when it came out at the cinema when I was 11. It terrified me. I had nightmares of the raptors coming to get me as they could open doors I had no where to hide. However, it was a fascination type fear. I collected everything to do with it (Macdonalds happy meal cups etc!!) and it became my favourite film ever in the end. I still love it now and could watch it over and over!
I was also however much more terrified of the head in the book baddie in the Care Bears movie as a child.

I think you are being a little unreasonable.

I saw Jurassic Park in the cinema aged 7 and I enjoyed it.

isn't some of the LOTR and pirates of the carribean 12s. Jurassic is a pg - wasnt it on daytime tv not too long ago.

When they put JP on tv they tend to cut a few of the worst bits out. Such as the T-Rex eating the man off the toilet! It tends to cut just has he lurches forward, rather than showing it picking him up and shaking him etc.

An overwhelming majority that IABU then!

Yes some of the LOTR and Pirates are 12s. We did watch them again ourselves first before he watched them, and as i said, its started with just showing him the clips of Smaug, then watching the 'in between battle' bits before he saw the whole thing so we very much tested the waters to see how he reacted to them.

I know JP is a PG but looking through some older films versus newer ones i think the rating has got harsher as time has gone on - i doubt if JP was released now it would be a PG (evidenced by Jurassic World being a 12 and other than a couple of uses of 'shit' i think it is less scary than the original!). maybe its just the improvement in CGI that has lead to this?

so i will relent and let him watch a bit and see how he gets on.

I don't understand this reaction, tbh. He's dinosaur mad, so he knows some of them were violent buggers but also knows they haven't existed for millions of years. Fantasy and things that have never existed or haven't existed for that long really aren't scary. Kids know stuff.

I saw Jaws at 7. Didn't scare me. But would make more sense to be scared of that, because sharks still exist and do occasionally eat people. You could, potentially, be attacked by a shark depending where you were. A dinosaur is never going to attack you.

Do you have my DS?! Sounds like we have exactly the same child! DS is a very young 7 yo - he still watched cbeebies however, we let him watch JP when he was 6. He's seen them all now. He's not in the slightest bit scared or traumatised by them, found the first one a little boring though because.. well it is! The special effects seem quite dated now.

Should add my DS was much more traumatised by Toy Story 3 than Jurassic Park!

If your child was completely unfazed by the films he's already watched I'm sure he'll be all right with JP. As long as you're with him the first time he sees it, I wouldn't worry about it.

DS watched them at 5 but he isn't easily scared...

You're being over-protective.

It depends on your child.
Dd1 and ds are unflappable on books and films. Dd2 is 13yo and I wouldn't want her to watch things they watched at half her age-mind you she'd almost certainly walk out as she wouldn't want to see them either,.

I watched it when it first came out. I was about 5. I had nightmares for months (no exaggeration).
That being said, if he's interested in Dinosaurs, I'm sure he'll love it.

totally depends on the child. If they aren't scared by monsters and people being eaten by them then go right ahead. My DD wouldn't sleep for a month if we let her watch it, but some of her friends are find with it.

Another here who was completely traumatised by watching it as a child. The velociraptor scene utterly haunted me. Even as an adult, when I know that's not even a realistic representation of a dinosaur that was probably more the size of a chicken, it still gives me the creeps. However, you know your son best so you can judge whether he'll be affected by it or not. It may well simply pass him by.

My ds (6.5) is also Dino mad and has seen all the JP films. I think dh showed him the first one when he was 3 or 4! I wouldn't have allowed that but ds hasn't been traumatised. Since Jurrasic World came onto Netflix I think he's watched it about 15 times 🙄.

I can remember Jurassic Park being a 12 when it came out in the cinema.

My friends younger brother was 8 they weren't gonna let him in but her Dad told them he was a very small 12 year old and they let us in.

Maybe they edited it for dvd. The worst part is when the T-rex bites the man's head off and the blood gushes out the side

I was terrified of Jurassic park as a child but DD watched it age 6 and loved it. She can be quite sensitive too so I wasn't sure but she was fine.

This is my son watching it when he was 7. He was a bit scared, but loved it.

Jurassic park was fine here, now The Good Dinosaur caused fit of crying and had to be turned off

If you wany to start gently the third film is less visually gory imo.

Dd watched all the films aged 7 days. She was fine