Star Wars - Appropriate for 4 Year Old

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My ex partner has let my 4 year old daughter watch the oringinal first Star Wars. Personally I'm not happy with this and I've raise it with her only to get back this typically defensive response. I'm convinced 4 is too young for this sort of film. Am I being an old duffer?

My 3 year old has watched it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mine have watched it at a similar age but to be fair at 4 they really didn't pay it much attention. The force is very strong in them now and they have consequently watched all of them but theyre teenagers now.

DS1 had watched them all except Revenge of the Sith by that age. Last one waited until he was 5, then watched it together. He seems to have survived.

My ds has just turned 4 and went with us to the Last Jedi. Loved it.

Depends on your four year old, and how sensitive they are. Broadly I would say it’s fine, as long as she wanted to watch it. Saying that, I got a roasting from someone on here a while back when I said my two year old had watched parts of the original trilogy (darker bits skipped over). Apparently I had desensitised him for life...

The original ones are fine I think. Not the new ones for that age though.

Mine watched them at 3.

Star Wars is a U. What is your problem?

Im pretty sure all mine had watched star wars with DH as todlers. I've never watched them though so cant really give my opinion on if I think its appropriate, trust his judgement though so probably.
Did she come home crying and having nightmares or was she fine and this is just your problem?

Watch out for the third one (of the newly released ones) - that’s the scary one.

To be honest my DS (age 6 at the time) found Matilda (the theatre show) a lot more scary than Star Wars.

The original ones are a U so they are fine for a 4 year old.

Can anyone advise if the last Jedi is ok for a 6 year old? It is rated 12A I think.

My ds was obsessed with it at 4

Personally I think it's too young. Too much violence and it's too complicated for them to understand anyway.

Having said that, we have also had to "ban" Puss in Boots and Kung Foo Panda because DS couldn't cope with the fighting and was trying to recreate the fight scenes all the time, so maybe my DS is exceptionally impressionable!

Took DS to Last Jedi at 3. He loved it. Although he does have a tendancy to recite General Hux's speech from the first one ..

Ds had seen the first 6 on dvd by age 4 and went to the cinema with us to see force awakens at age 4 (we did get it first). He saw Rogue one on dvd (wanted to be able to switch it off if he found it too much) but we took him to see last jedi at the cinema too. Darth Vader is one of his heroes. Hopefully Solo won't be crap and we can take him to see that too

we did vet it not get it!

DD watched the original star wars from 2. She isn't easily scared by films and doesn't copy violence either. Other children may react differently, my friends ds was banned from watching kung fu panda because of violence, and got nightmares from watching Tangled.

My 3 year old has watched the original trilogy. She loves getting to watch star wars with daddy. But she's not bothered by violence or scary things in the slightest. I wouldn't say they are inappropriate for a 4 year old but only you know what your 4 year old is like.

Don't see what your problem is with it tbh

My 6yo started watched the 1977 one (not a fan here, so don't know what bloody episode that is!) and was bored stiff. DH got the 2nd out of the library (E strikes back??) as he said it was much better... DS was bored.

So, it depends on your child.

DS recognises the characters - they are bloody everywhere - but is just not interested in the films at all.

I saw Star Wars for the first time aged around 4-5, had posters in my room, etc.
My DS watched them with me around age 4. No trauma, but he had a bit of a job to keep up with identifying good and bad characters across the 3 sets of trilogies.
I watched Force Awakens and Last Jedi before taking him to see those; though we watched Rogue 1 first time together.
I didn't take him to see Solo, mostly as I think the plot and relationship of Han / Qiara will be lost on him.

As for age ratings. Not sure there's anything more traumatic between New Hope, Phantom Menace, Last Jedi, yet up went the age ratings. Ok, so the theme of patricide in FA follows thru unlike RotJ, but it's not a new thread for Star Wars