To consider taking 3yo to see Bohemian Rhapsody?

[sparklewater]

More of a WIBU really. She's great at the cinema so it's not that, and I'm guessing all the sex and drug references will go over her head and she'll just enjoy the singing.

I really want to see it and haven't got any childcare!

Opinions from people who have seen it very welcome.

Sadly I doubt it’s a wind up. Some people’s sense of entitlement is huge. You don’t have to take an 8 week old to the cinema. If you can’t express milk and find a babysitter, or go to a special baby friendly viewing (where it’s not unexpected that a baby might cry for a few mins before feeding) then ffs wait til it’s Netflix or similar. Just fucking unbelievable that some people honestly think their desire to bring a baby along to a film trumps other people’s desire to watch it in peace

It's definitely not a windup, I've endured crying and generally grizzling babies in 12A films.

It's abusive to the baby I thought. One of the films was an extremely loud superhero film. The baby was probably stressed out by it

Fallensky what is this website? 🤣

Are we really supposed to believe a 10 year old wrote this:

You people are ridiculous.
There is nothing wrong with the fact that Freddie Mercury is in love with another man. This is the real world, people. Though, I could have done without the language. Nothing too bad, but still keep in mind. Overall, great movie for 9 to 16 year olds.

Amazing

No way!

I don't want my film ruined by a 3 year old.

I find it a very useful website as part of my decision on whether to allow my DC to watch a film or play a game. I don't generally rely on the parents/kids reviews though just the actual websites reviewer, precisely because of things like the review you have quoted. I have no way of knowing whether the parents are parents or the kids are kids.

I ummed and ahhed about taking my 9yr old to see it. I saw it first without him and then decided to take him too.

I’d be concerned that she’d get bored. There is quite a bit of heavy dialogue.

There’s a fair amount of swearing too. Mostly mildish but there’s one fuck. My 9yr old knows not to repeat that but good luck with a 3yr old .

@Bunbunbunny I'm so glad you said that!

I am a MASSIVE Queen geek fan and struggled to enjoy the movie because of the inaccuracies in the timeline and the story itself! All the rave reviews made me think I was mad

@HarrietKettleWasHere

Oh well, as long as there’s LESS people to be annoyed

If that's meant to be a correction, ajw88 was correct. It's 'fewer'.

Um no, itvwasnt meant to be a correction, I was trying to make the point that it sounded as though the poster wasn’t bothered about annoying people if there weren’t as many people in the cinema.

But cheers for pulling me on that.

Sorry- correction-

Cheers for pulling me UP on that.

Sometimes on a discussion forum, grammar isn’t always totally correct. Does it bother you?

Nope. But because you capitalised the word it looked like you were correcting it. And if posters are correcting others it would help if they were right.

But as you weren't then it's not a problem. Apologies.

It's a biopic not a musical. A 3 year old would be bored.

I am a MASSIVE Queen geek fan and struggled to enjoy the movie because of the inaccuracies in the timeline and the story itself! All the rave reviews made me think I was mad

IMO the people who are raving about it aren't going to the cinema to see a documentary, they are enjoying a (on the whole) feel good movie based on fact with some great music. Of course you're going to be disappointed if you expected a true to live retelling of history

No sex or drugs in the film

You must have seen a different film to the one I did!

Not any actual sex but scenes in a gay club with full on fetish gear, and talk of “shagging”.

They also took loads of pills and there was cocaine on tables.

It's a few years since I had a 3 year old but would they really pick up on cocaine on the table?

She won’t ‘love’ the singing. It’s not that kind of film. The only proper performance of a song is the last 20 mins of the Live Aid concert. She’d be bored shitless.

Sorry but if I’d paid money to see it (I have, it’s brilliant) and you were sitting there with a three year old, I’d think you were a mega selfish twat.

Your want to see the film doesn’t trump everyone else’s right to enjoy it without a toddler wiggling around/being pacified/making noise/ getting up and down to the loo.

This ^
By the time she's disturbed everyone enough for you to take her out, then the act of you taking her out, is disturbing other people.
Why can't you understand that ?

If you can afford to buy her a ticket, pay a babysitter that money instead and go on your own. Or wait for netflix or the DVD.

Not unless you can guarantee that they'd sit still and be quiet. It'll be out next month to buy anyway so I'd just wait.

There seems to be more and more parents who think that their kids are perfect and that everyone else will think they are great. I don't want to listen to a three year old whilst at the cinema or when out for a nice meal. Family screenings or family friendly pubs, ok, normal screenings and nice restaurants then it's not ok. Just because you have made the decision to have a child, it does not give to free reign to inflict them on others.

The bh film is not for kids, please don't inflict your daughter on others as she will be bored and restless.

For anyone who has missed it: it sounds like the film is less musical and more talky than I thought, so she probably will get bored. I'll wait.

I still don't think a bit of murmering and then walking out is any more disruptive than adults chatting, playing on their phones or eating crisps and sweets for two solid hours to be honest, but there we go!

And for what it's worth, it would definitely have been a daytime showing if I had decided to take her!

I'm taking my 11 month old to see it in a couple of weeks, it's on at baby cinema. Otherwise no.

Sparklewater- it’s not a race to the bottom! Just because some adults might chat, use their phone or eat crisps (all of which are fucking annoying) does not mean that a 3 year old getting restless, fidgety and needing to be taken out, is not equally fucking annoying!

My husband took 7yo DSD as she's a huge Queen fan with all the albums. He loved it but said she was quite bored because it is more dialogue based than music based. She's heard far worse than fuck in her house so I don't think he even noticed the language.

@Momo27

I know - just making a point really 😁

I’ll go against the grain and say I think it’d be fine. The film’s ridiculously tame. The drug use is just Freddie taking a pill and a shot of white powder on a table, and the gay bar is just guys in leather doing nothing very interesting. There’s no sex, just a few kisses.

There’s plenty of musical interludes, and only a couple of little stretches without music. It’s not really dialogue heavy, it’s hardly an Aaron Sorkin script. It’s very basic writing, a 3yr old will be able to follow along well enough to not be frustrated.

I would wait a couple of weeks and see it towards the end of its run when showings are less busy. Book a seat near the door so you can be out in seconds if she makes noise. If she sat through the Greatest Showman (which has plenty of boring stretches focused on adult themes) I think she’ll be perfectly engaged with this though.