Would you let a 6y/o see Barbie?

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I'm in two minds about this- kids have been invited to see Barbie the movie but it's rated 12A because of moderate sexual innuendo, brief harassment, catcalling and implied strong language (including bleeped out motherf*er).

Supposedly it has the words bitch, crap, God, hell and damn in.

What would you do? We wouldn't typically let the kids see anything with this sort of language but then it would mean missing out on someone's birthday party.

There is no chance of us seeing it before the girls as we would have to accept or decline the invite today.

I think the swearing would go over the heads of mine, but I definitely know it wouldn't others so they then might chat about it or discuss it afterwards.

Am I being too precious about it all?

YABU- let them go see it

YANBU- yeah I probably wouldn't let a 6 year old see it or I'd want to see it myself first to judge.

While The Little Mermaid is certainty a kids film that aims to appeal to and make money from a child audience, there is no getting away from the fact that these Disney live action remakes are massively intended to profit from adults and the cash cow that is millennial nostalgia - perhaps even more so than the kids. So it makes perfect sense that Barbie, built around childhood nostalgia but aimed at adults, has its trailer shown - the audience in the same.

It's been a while since I watched a PG film at the cinema, but they used to put up a message saying someting like "PG trailer for 12 rated film". Don't they do that any more? It made it rather obvious that they were trailing a film not intended for the interest of the children but (presumably) for those adults with them.

Companies marketing to the underage audiences is an issue - for example I've seen Fortnite (a PEGI 12 game) advertised on covers of magazines read by primary school age kids and on T-shirts for kids.
At least with Barbie, there are films that young kids can watch safely and the merchandise applies to Barbie in general rather than the live action movie specifically. Mattel want to see if they can recreate what Marvel have done and have fans of all ages.
Under 12s in a 12a movie is commonplace ime so I would take an older child who was under 12. 10 years old sounds like a good age - outgrown Barbies but happy to go on a nostalgia trip.

Not to all parents but thank you for educating me - IN CAPS! 😂

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Mark Twain was so right

Oh dear.

My point exactly 😂

The phrase 'trailed in front of' is upsetting me

I was a Sindy girl so I won't be going to watch it <huffs>

You might want to check how many adults per child your cinema counts as 'accompanying' under 12s. Many won't allow large groups of small ones with only a couple of adults.

I think it's swimming where they have a child/adult ratio, not the cinema.

Also some cinemas. To control behaviour of small children.

Literally what the A bit means...

Completely agree.

This isn't a kids movie. I think a lot of parents don't realise that. I expect that cinemas will be full of bored disappointed kids.

Could be worst I suppose.

There must be a few porn movies with Barbie in the title, imagine parents trying to take their kids because "it says Barbie" 😂

Some of the posts on here remind me of the outrage when the Dark Knight film was released and people took their children because, hey Batman based films are for kids right? Then got all upset because their intelligent, well adjusted ,sophisticated kids had nightmares about pencils being pushed in eyes.

Dark Knight was a 12a according to IMDB.

The A doesn't ah E anything to do with ratios

I didn't say it did, but a cinema can decide to apply entry rules to reflect the fact that a 'child under 12 must be accompanied by an adult'.

Honestly, it happens. Just like wit the Minions film cinemas could state no groups of more than x number of unaccompanied school age children.

You are being ridiculous. Comparing groups of unaccompanied children with an adult taking a group of kids. It's not the same.

Did anyone see it yet? Good? Didn't scroll down

Lol at people complaining. Just like my dc asking why there is stuff on Netflix they can’t watch 🤣 poor children, life is so unfair.

Literally just quoting a bye law to try and be helpful so that one adult doesn't turn up with a gaggle of six year olds in tow and get turned away. But hey ho. What would I know? I just said it was worth checking. No idea what your beef is.

I just compared it to the Minions case where cinemas altered their admission rules slightly . Which they can do.

It's not, but because Barbie is not a child's movie, you can see why a cinema would refuse to have a bunch of little kids with only 1 adult, as the group is very likely to become a nuisance very quickly.

It's not the same as taking them to see the old Cinderella.

It's not, but because Barbie is not a child's movie, you can see why a cinema would refuse to have a bunch of little kids with only 1 adult, as the group is very likely to become a nuisance very quickly.

It's not the same as taking them to see the old Cinderella.

You think cinemas have ratio rules depending on the rating of the film, because the children might be a 'nuisance'

Be real, your posts are digging down but you were wrong initially and you are wrong now.