Not suitable under 10; parental guidance to 11 (violence, themes, scary scenes)
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Children under 10 | Not suitable due to violence, scary scenes and themes. |
Children aged 10–11 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence and themes. |
Children aged 12 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: | SPY x FAMILY CODE: White |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild themes, animated violence and coarse language |
Length: | 110 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Anya Forger (voice of Megan Shipman) is a young girl, adopted by her parents Loid (Alex Organ) and Yor (Natalie Van Sistine). Loid (a spy) and Yor (a trained assassin) are unaware of each other’s identities but have come together to make a ‘pretend’ family. Anya, however, is telepathic, so she knows what’s going on in her parents’ minds, and they also have a dog called Bond, who can see into the future.
Loid is told he will be taken off his current mission, Operation Strix, much to his displeasure. Loid thinks that if he helps Anya win a cooking competition at her school by making the directors’ favourite dessert, Meremere, this will put him back in the good books. The family go away together, apparently for a holiday, but in reality, to obtain the secret recipe for the dessert. Things go very awry, however, when Anya accidentally eats a microfilm hidden inside a chocolate. The microfilm contains vital information to disrupt world peace and which is being sought by a nasty Colonel Snidel (John Swasey). Snidel sends out his military force to capture the film by any means possible as it is his mission to end the ceasefire between East and West.
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.
Spies; Adoptive Families; A child in peril.
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 a lot of cartoon stylised violence in this movie, including martial arts style punching and kicking; the use of various weapons – knives, swords, guns, automatic weapons, a man in an armoured suit who has automatic weapons for hands, grenades, guided missiles etc; the main characters are shot at continuously but suffer no harm; there is some blood seen.
Other more threatening examples of violence include:
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:
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White is an animated Japanese spy movie, based on the shonen manga series. The film is quite intense and violent, which, together with the themes of the movie, make it unsuitable for under 10’s, and parental guidance is strongly recommended for 10 to 11-year-olds. This film is more suited to teens and adults. (Please note, this review is of the English Dubbed version.)
The main messages from this movie are that families are important and should stick together; and the need to protect others who are more vulnerable.
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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