to not let my 9 year old daughter watch Mamma Mia?

[geekgirl]

Apparently all the other girls at school have seen it about a million times and she feels really left out .
I've looked at the BBFC listing and it doesn't sound like the right kind of fare for a 9 year old. But it does seem to be enormously popular with little girls. AIBU? As far as I can see, this is a film aimed at women, not at girls in primary school.

(and yes I do remember the utter humiliation of being the only one in my class not allowed to watch Jaws at the age of 9 - I did get over it)

I finally saw it last weekend and loved it! I am struggling to remember anything that wouldn't be appropriate but the songs, scenery, costumes and dancing are the things that stick in the mind. I think the adult stuff would go right over her head.

Meryl Streep says slut, there's a bit of snogging, a bit of writhing about on a beach (in swimming cossies) and the man-eating American one sticks a kind of red teazel [sp?] dried flower between her legs for a willy (fleetingly). That's all I can think of...

What missinginaction said. Gouging my eyes out, sticking then on a sticky stick and eating my own vomit would be preferable to sitting through that load of hyperactive hysterical twaddle again. 'Ooh look, we're all having SUCH a great time on the screen. Can't you just tell we had such a BLAST making this film. Aren't we all just TOO funny.'
Walk away. Very quickly.

DD is 6y and seen it, and loved it. She now listens to the soundtrack constantly and sings and dances along, knowing all the words, the lot.

The storyline is about not knwoing who her father is, one of three possibilities, but they don't really go into details (bar Honey Honey song) as to how/why, and DD was certainly none the wiser and not questioned it at all. And she never picked up on an dodgy language either, TBH neither did I.

It is a really fun "feel good" film, a def laugh and one me and DD really enjoyed together.

It is HSM3 next week - bet I don't enjoy that one so much

It's a really great feel good film.
DD 6 & I have been twice now - we both loved it !
Take her!!

I agree! I took my 7 y o to the stage show 3 yrs ago, had no idea what it was about, then had to explain the storyline! Good for you.

It's as corny and cheesy as hell.

My (then) 9-year-old and her friend ADORED it.

YABU. My 9 year old saw it and loved it.

At the other end of the scale my 73 yr old MIL (a vicar) saw it and l am told she laughed till she cried (I did ). My DS1 (4) is singing Mamma Mia, but hasn't seen it yet,...suspect he will see bits of it when I buy the DVD! If I had an 8 year old I'd probably let her/him watch it...but your child, your choice!

I prevetted it and watched it with my mum and then took my dd who is 5 and she loved it. Dont think there is anything too riskey in it.

the ejaculation reference is REally Funny.
but of course dd's did not understand it at all.
slightly risque
but the feelgood factor, laughing and crying wins in the end

I took my 8 and 5 year olds watching it - they LOVED it!! ...and so did i

The only offensive word that i can remember was slut?? But my dd's didn't register it at all (and i was looking for a reaction because i watched the film first to 'vet' it, so knew it was coming).

The adult references in the film were not registered at all, thankfully they went straight over their heads

I would actually recommend it. My dd's were dancing, singing and clapping in their seats

just finished watching it - she loved it and so did dh and I

Dh cried at all the stuff about your little girl growing up

I did have to go into detailed biology re. the possibility of having 3 fathers

Glad you all enjoyed it.

My 9 and 10 yr old went for their cousins 9th birthday. They really enjoyed it, their only fault with it was their granny and aunty getting up to dance. Extremely embarassed

So glad you enjoyed GeekGirl

I'm the strictest person I know when it comes to film suitability and I would be perfectly happy with a 9 year old seeing Mamma Mia. When I went, my friend's 6 year old girl was with us. My 7 year old ds had seen the trailer and refused point blank to come - it's a "girl's film" apparantly!

i am also nurotic when it comes to what my dd watches,but this film is fine. lots of adult inuendo and laughs but it all goes right over their heads. the music is fab and she has seen it 3 times

It's your choice, but it's quite tame really. It's bit of a modern day Grease, not sure it will be as popular as Grease, but it's that multilayered that will appeal to people of different ages.

Oops didn't see you'd already been. Glad you liked it!

i took my 2 kids boy 8 girl 3 and my granddaughter who's 4 to see it they loved it i,ve seen it 3 times myself mind you kids are doing my head in singing all the different songs all the time i got them the album and lock them in the conservatory {grini am joking about locking them in but wish sometimes it was soundproof !!they are also amazed the i know all the word lol

I wasn't allowed to see Grease when I was 9 or 10 either. Wholeheartedly agree with that decision now. Don't feel pressured by the "everyone has seen it" argument. Your child, your decision. Haven't seen it myself...six year old ds says it's not for him...but from what everyone who has seen it has said...sounds entertaining if you like that sort of thing and I really don't think that the brief references are anything to worry a nine year old. You don't want your child to use those words but are surely aware that that they will hear unpleasant language from somewhere at some point in their everyday lives. My six year old ds has seen Indiana Jones and some of the Star Wars films...which I relented about eventually. Has lead to an amazing plan to be an archeologist when he grows up. What do you really think? Does she NEED to see it or not? How bad can it be?

My DS goes around school singing "Diareah! here we go again..."

Apparantly it really winds up the girls

Sorry, that is of no use at all to the OP