Not recommended under 8, PG to 13 due to violence and scary scenes
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Name of movie: | Night at the Museum 2 |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild violence and some scary scenes |
Length: | 105 minutes |
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In Night at the Museum 2 Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) has left behind his job as night guard at the Museum of Natural History to build a successful career inventing and marketing products such as the glow in the dark flashlight. When he visits the Museum of Natural History to see his historical friends, Larry finds them packed and ready to be shipped off to deep storage in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. Despite his son’s pleas, Larry bids his historical friends farewell and turns his back on their fate.
It is not long before Larry receives a distress call from his little cowboy mate, Jed (Owen Wilson) begging him to come to Washington to save his friends from the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Kahmumrah (Hank Azaria) and his evil buddies. What unfolds is an adventure- filled battle between some of history’s greats and not-so-greats as Larry and his sidekick Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) fight to get their friends back. Parents and children alike will enjoy the comedy and the historical references as the biggest museum in the world comes to life.
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.
None of concern
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.
Frequent slapstick 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.
Children in this age group may also be scared by some of the above-mentioned scenes.
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.
Younger children in this age group may also be scared by some of the above-mentioned scenes.
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.
Most 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:
There are some sexual references in this movie, including:
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
None of concern
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Night at the Museum 2 is a comedy with many historical references. The main message of the film is encouraging people to “do what you love, with people that you love”.
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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