Not suitable under 8; parental guidance to 10 (sports theme, coarse language, possible lack of interest for younger viewers)
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Children under 8 | Not suitable due to sports theme, coarse language and possible lack of interest. |
Children aged 8–10 | Parental guidance recommended due to theme and coarse language. |
Children aged 11 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: | Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild coarse language |
Length: | 85 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Shoyo (voice of Ayumu Murase) is a young boy who, one day, comes across his hero Kenma (Yuki Kaji), also known as the ‘Little Giant’, seemingly in a morose mood. Shoyo loves volleyball and hopes to follow in Kenma’s footsteps. Kenma befriends Shoyo and teaches him all he knows. Shoyo then starts school at Karasuno High School, where he joins the volleyball team.
Kenma goes to Nekoma High School and belongs to the volleyball team there, which is captained by his early childhood friend, Tetsuro (Yuichi Nakamura). Tetsuro is the one who got Kenma involved in volleyball from an early age. In the third round of the Spring Nationals, Nekoma and Karasuno face each other for the first time. With three sets of play, the teams try their hardest to beat their opponents, and Kenma and Shoyo finally get the chance to play against each other – but only one team can win.
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.
Sports; Volleyball.
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.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:
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.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:
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.
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle is a Japanese animated sports film based on the manga series Haikyu!! (available in Japanese or English subbed and dubbed). The film concentrates on the match between the two high school volleyball teams, interspersed with flashbacks and a fill-in story. The film is likely to appeal to fans of volleyball and manga but may hold little interest for younger children. It is more suited to children aged 10 and over.
The main message from this movie is that playing sport is all about the enjoyment of play rather than who wins or loses.
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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