Not suitable under 8; parental guidance to 10 (violence, scary scenes, language, themes, innuendo)
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Children under 8 | Not suitable due to violence, themes, scary scenes, language, and innuendo. |
Children aged 8–10 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence, themes, language, and innuendo. |
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: | Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild themes, some scenes may scare young children |
Length: | 88 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Legendary, huntsman spider, Inspector Sun (voice of Ronny Chieng) has just captured the evil Red Locust (voice of Rich Orlow) but the lucky arrest led to the injury of countless officers and Inspector Sun finds himself out of a job. He misses his flight to the United States and an old friend invites him to fly on a plane bound for San Francisco. When Bugsy (voice of Scott Greer), a former employee of the Red Locust, is brutally murdered and his new wife, a black widow spider named Arabella (voice of Jennifer Childs Greer), is framed, Inspector Sun must get to the bottom of what happened. With a plane full of potential suspects, thousands of missing ants and rumours of a monster that can suck the life out of anyone, Inspector Sun needs all the help he can get. A clever, jumping spider named Janey (voice of Emily Klemo), desperate to be his assistant, is more useful than she is given credit for. Will they be able to work together to stop the Red Locust from creating a swarm of mutant monsters or will they perish in the process?
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.
Crime; Genetic mutations; Greed; Power; Revenge.
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.
There are some sexual references in this movie, including:
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow is a who-done-it, CGI film, with a diverse cast and a film-noir-style feel. The story has potential but there are gaps and discrepancies that are never explained, as well as some suggestive content. While at first glance, this appears to be a children’s film, it is better suited to older kids and mature audiences.
The main messages from this movie are to believe in yourself and live up to your individual potential.
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 the importance of looking deeply at issues or situations and not just jumping to conclusions based on first impressions.
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