Not recommended under 12, parental guidance recommended 12 to 13 due to violence, scary scenes and dark themes
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Children under 12 | Not recommended due to violence, scary scenes and dark themes |
Children 12 to 13 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence, scary scenes and dark themes |
Children 13 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: | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald |
Classification: | M |
Consumer advice lines: | Fantasy themes and violence |
Length: | 134 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
This is the second movie in the Fantastic Beasts series, a prequel to the Harry Potter stories. In this instalment we are introduced to a dark and powerful wizard, Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp). Grindelwald has engineered an escape from prison and takes up residence in Paris, where he hopes to find the young wizard Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller). Credence comes from a long and pure-blood line of wizards and Grindelwald believes he is the only one who will be able to help defeat his only living equal, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law).
Back in London, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) a young wizard with a passion for magical creatures and beasts, is appealing to the British Ministry of Magic to have them lift his international travel ban. The Ministry agrees, but only if Scamander agrees to work with them to find Credence before Grindelwald does. Scamander doesn’t want to take sides and declines their offer, however when the same offer is made by Professor Albus Dumbledore, he can’t resist the chance to travel to Paris.
As Grindelwald gathers his followers and supporters around him with the promise of freedom for all wizards, the hunt for Credence intensifies. Credence has escaped from a circus show in Paris with his friend, the woman-serpent Nagini (Claudia Kim), and together they are trying to discover more about Credence’s heritage and to find his birth mother. Scamander has arrived in Paris and reunited with his friend and romantic interest Tina (Katherine Waterston), who is also on the hunt for Credence.
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.
Destructive forces; supernatural creatures and magic; brotherhood; family heritage
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 some violence in this movie 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.
Children of this age may also find the above-mentioned scenes scary or disturbing.
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.
Children of this age may also find the above-mentioned scenes scary or disturbing.
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.
Children in this age group are unlikely to be disturbed by anything in this film
None of concern
There is some mild sexual and romantic innuendo in this movie, including:
Nothing of concern
Adults drink beer.
None of concern
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a beautifully made and visually exciting film that combines magical, supernatural elements with fast paced action. It is more suited to older children as there is plenty of violence and scary scenes, and the themes are quite dark. It is not recommended to children under 12, with parental guidance recommended for 12-year-olds. This film will appeal to adults as well as teenagers.
The main message from this movie is that your family history, heritage and sibling relationships are meaningful and significant.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:
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