Not suitable under 8, Parental guidance strongly recommended 8 to 13 (Scary scenes and images, 3D effects)
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Children under 8 | Not suitable due to scary adventure scenes and disturbing images, enhanced by the filmu2019s 3D effects |
Children aged 8-13 | Parental guidance strongly recommended due to scary adventure scenes and disturbing images, enhanced by the filmu2019s 3D effects which may be disturbing for some children. |
Children over the age of 13 | 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.
Name of movie: | Journey to the Center of the Earth (in 3D) |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Action adventure and some scary scenes |
Length: | 92 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) is a vulcanologist who has just had his research funding cut and is about to be ejected from his lab. To make matters worse his 13-year-old nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) has just arrived for a ten days of quality time with his uncle. Sean’s father Max (Jean Michael Pare), Trevor’s brother, went missing ten years earlier while exploring a volcano, and Trevor has being working ever since to prove his brother’s theories about the centre of the Earth. While looking at a computer screen displaying seismic activity throughout the world, Trevor realises that the readings are identical to those on the day that his brother went missing. Trevor decides investigate the situation for himself and goes to Iceland taking Sean along as well.
In Iceland, Trevor and Sean team up with Hannah (Anita Briem), a mountain guide who leads them to the top of a volcano to get a reading from one of Max’s seismographic instruments. An electrical storm erupts, with lightning strikes forcing the trio into a cave. When lightning strikes the cave’s entrance the trio are sealed inside and their escape attempts lead them to the centre of the earth and many adventures.
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.
Volcanos; prehistoric plants and animals
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.
Journey to the Center of the Earth contains scenes depicting intense action adventure, accidental harm and danger but contains no blood and gore or interpersonal violence. Examples include:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
Journey to the Center of the Earth contains images of monstrous creatures and scary moments that may scare or disturb younger children. The fearful effects of these images may be heightened due to the film’s realistic 3D visual images. The reality/appearance of the 3D visual effects alone may scare/ disturb younger children who have not experienced 3D films before. For example:
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 in this age group may also be disturbed by the scenes described above
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 in this age group may also be disturbed by the scenes described above
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
The following products are displayed or used in this movie:
The film contains a couple of low-level sexual references. Examples include:
There is some mild sensuality and very low-level sexual activity in this movie. Examples include:
None of concern
None of concern
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 3D science fiction action adventure targeted at a younger adolescent and child audience which is likely to entertain adults as well.
The main messages from this movie are:
Parents may also wish to discuss the film’s portrayal of the only female character. Hannah is presented more capable in every respect than the film’s male characters who rely on her for guidance and to bail them out of trouble.
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