Not suitable under 8; parental guidance to 10 (animated violence, themes and scary scenes)
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Children under 8 | Not suitable due to animated violence, themes and scary scenes. |
Children aged 8–10 | Parental guidance recommended due to animated violence, themes 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: | Monster Family 2 |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Some scenes may scare young children |
Length: | 103 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
In order to stay in their human form, the Wishbones are supposed to be a happy family. But mum, Emma (voice of Emily Watson), and Dad, Frank (voice of Nick Frost), are far from perfect.; and Faye (voice of Jessica Brown Findlay) and Max (voice of Ethan Rouse) are far from happy. Their old friend, Baba Yaga (voice of Catherine Tate), is abducted from her own wedding by Mila (voice of Emily Carey), a young girl whose famous parents, Maddox (voice of Daniel Ben-Zenou) and Marlene Starr (voice of Emma Tate), have sent her out on missions to capture monsters from around the world and bring them back to their secret lab so that they can be of benefit for the greater good – or so they say. When the Wishbones’ attempts to save Baba Yaga fail, they find themselves transformed once again into a vampire, Frankenstein, a mummy and a werewolf. Together they set off to find Mila and try to stop her from abducting all the other ‘monsters’ as well. Meanwhile, after her interactions with the Wishbones, Mila begins to see that perhaps her family is not so perfect after all. With the help of Max, Mila finally finds the courage to confront her parents and learns that not only is she not their daughter but they have merely been using her and the creatures she captured to create a ‘perfect daughter’ whom they call ‘Mila 2.0’. Together, Mila and the Wishbones set about undoing all the damage the Starrs have done and together they learn that no family is perfect and that having imperfections is part of who they are.
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.
Abduction; Deceitfulness; Bullying; The negative role social media can play in the lives of adolescents; The pressure to be perfect.
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 is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Monster Family 2 is an animated sequel to the first Monster Family film. While the main message about finding perfection inside yourself even when you are not perfect, is important, the plot and dialogue leave much to be desired. Due to the themes and a couple scary scenes this is not a film for younger children but rather one that families might watch together when the kids are older. It will be best enjoyed by fans of the first film.
The main messages from this movie are that nobody is perfect and that it is OK because our imperfections make us who we are.
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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