Not suitable under 12; parental guidance to 14 (violence, scary scenes, themes, language)
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Children under 12 | Not suitable due to violence, scary scenes, themes, and language. |
Children aged 12–14 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence, scary scenes, themes and language. |
Children aged 15 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: | Madame Web |
Classification: | M |
Consumer advice lines: | Violence |
Length: | 116 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Paramedic Cassie (Dakota Johnson) has a near-fatal incident while trying to rescue a man from a car accident. After being resuscitated by her partner Ben Parker (Adam Scott), she discovers that she can glimpse the future. While on a train, Cassie sees the brutal murder of three vulnerable, teenage girls and, before the gruesome events can take place, she helps them to escape. Julia (Sydney Sweeney), Mattie (Celeste O’Connor) and Anya (Isabela Merced) have no idea what is happening or why an evil man with spider-like superpowers is determined to kill them. When Cassie discovers a photo of Ezekiel (Tahar Rahim), the man who is hunting them, in her mother’s things, she realises that somehow she is the thread that is connecting them all. In order to get answers, she returns to Peru, to the jungle where she was born and it is here that she discovers the truth of her past and also the potential of her future. Here Cassie learns that Ezekiel was cursed the moment he killed her mother and that the girls she is protecting are destined to take Ezekiel’s life, unless he kills them first. Returning to the US, Cassie must use her newfound knowledge and find the strength within herself to stop Ezekiel and save the girls.
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.
Abandonment; Revenge; Family dysfunction and breakdown; Greed and the lust for power.
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.
The following products are displayed or used in this movie:
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Madame Web is an action adventure from Sony Pictures. It is a stand-alone film with some subtle tie-ins to Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise. The plot is fast paced, although somewhat disjointed. The film has a diverse cast as well as strong, female role models and positive messages about standing up for what you believe in and discovering that you are more powerful than you ever imagined you could be. The film is best suited to teens and adult audiences.
The main messages from this movie are that the mind has infinite potential; that no matter what path we are on, we have the power to change the future; and that the past is part of who we are – if we are able to embrace it, understand it and heal the wounds we carry, we become far stronger as a result.
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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