Not suitable under 6; not recommended under 8; parental guidance to 10 (violence, scary scenes)
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Children under 6 | Not suitable due to violence and scary scenes. |
Children aged 6–7 | Not recommended due to violence and scary scenes. |
Children aged 8–10 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence and scary scenes. |
Children over the age of 10 | 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: | Little Eggs: An African Rescue |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Some scenes may scare young children |
Length: | 89 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Toto, a rooster (voice of Bruno Bichir), and his wife, Di (Maite Perroni), have become proud parents of two rare golden eggs, Uly (Dione Riva Santacruz Palace) and Bibi (Angelica Vale). Toto is overprotective of his two eggs and follows them everywhere as he knows the dangers that lurk in the world.
Toto’s fears come true when a Russian agent and her two henchmen steal the golden eggs to take them to an exclusive dinner/auction event in the Congo. The Russians plan to sell the eggs, along with various other exotic species of eggs, to the highest bidders. Toto and Di have to find their way to Africa to save their babies. Along the way they meet up with a band of African animals, led by a lion king, who come to their aid in rescuing their children.
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.
Parenthood; Animals in peril; Separation from a parent.
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 quite a lot of slapstick violence in this movie, mostly done for laughs, including:
Other violence includes:
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 are some sexual references in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Little Eggs: An African Rescue is an animated Mexican movie, based on the Huevoscartoons Franchise. It has some crude humour and mature themes. It is also quite scary in places. For these reasons the movie isn’t suitable for children under 6, not recommended for children under 8 and parental guidance is recommended for children aged 8 – 10.
The main messages from this movie are that sometimes you have to believe in the impossible; and that the size of your enemy doesn’t matter, you can defeat them with intelligence.
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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