Parental guidance recommended under 8 due to scenes that might scare under fives, coarse language and crude humour.
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Children under 5 | Parental guidance recommended due to scenes that might scare this age group, coarse language and crude humour. |
Children aged 5 to 8 | Parental guidance recommended due to coarse language and crude humour. |
Children aged 8 and over | OK for this age group |
This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.
Name of movie: | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The long haul |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild crude humour and coarse language |
Length: | 91 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The long haul is the fourth film in the series of movies based on the popular novels by author Jeff Kinney. It follows young Greg Heffley (Jason Drucker) who is frustrated at the thought of needing to spend time with his family over summer when he’d much prefer to be having fun with friends. However, his mother Alice (Alicia Silverstone) has organised a family road trip across the country in order to visit Greg’s great-grandmother for her birthday. Although Alice informs Greg that he will need to give up his phone and other technology for the trip, Greg tries his best to escape the clutches of his family in an effort to attend a nearby gaming convention.
Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
Family and relationships; responsibility; technology; adventure and fun
Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
There is limited violence in the film, including:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:
Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
Younger children in this age group may also be scared by the above-mentioned scenes
Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
Nothing of concern
Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.
Nothing of concern
The following products are displayed or used in this movie:
A young child finds a bra in another’s suitcase
Nothing of concern
Nothing of concern
There is some mild coarse language in the film, including:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The long haul is the latest in this popular series based on the books of the same names. It is an enjoyable film that emphasises the importance of standing by one’s family and loved ones, even when the desire to do so is not always there. The film highlights the rewarding nature of family relationships when time and energy are invested into them, and additionally explores the notion that others are always capable of being surprising in what they can offer. There are a few scenes that might worry under-fives and parental guidance is recommended for children under 8 due to coarse language and crude humour.
Parents may wish to discuss:
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