The 'Violence' was realistic computer generated real film. Not cartoon slapstick.
It looked real to me. Though I know it wasn't.
It looked real to my 3 children aged 3-8. They thought it was.
Slapstick is slipping on a banana skin and hurting your bottom dramatically. Not dropping dead from a heart attack or causing electrocution.
One cried when Mr McGregor dropped dead. Our friend and neighbour has recently died. But many children know people who have died.
I don't think we had to see he die.
My anaphylactic child sobbed uncontrollably and I had to take her out of the cinema in the epi pen scene. For a child who knows what it feels like, to know the terror of not being able to breathe and need hospitalision it was a torturous scene. With no place in a child's film.
To those who don't know what it feels like, to diminish the real threat of death and make it funny is totally unacceptable. To mock and belittle life threatening allergies is wrong.
My 8 year old was disturbed by the electrocution scenes.
I thought the film was horrible. Humour aimed at adults. Totally missed the point of being a child's film.
The books are pretty horrific, the cartoon is questionable though my children love it, theft, bullying etc.
I was expecting a story line more like the cartoon than Home Alone type humour.
Films like Toy Story, Monsters inc etc appeal to a massive audience without being so brutal.