Not suitable under 6; parental guidance to 8 (violence, scary scenes, themes, language)
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Children under 6 | Not suitable due to violence, themes, language and scary scenes. |
Children aged 6–8 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence, themes and language. |
Children aged 9 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: | Tiger’s Apprentice, The |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild themes, animated violence and coarse language |
Length: | 99 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Raised by his grandmother Mrs Lee (voice of Kheng Hua Tan), Tom (voice of Brandon Soo Hoo) has no idea about his heritage or about the fact that a magical world exists and is very much intertwined with his own. Everything that his grandmother has done has been to protect him from Loo (voice of Michelle Yeoh), a malevolent woman who wants the powerful phoenix necklace that contains forces able to destroy the Earth if it falls into the wrong hands – a necklace Mrs Lee has spent a lifetime guarding. When Tom unintentionally causes a bully to fly into the ceiling, and when he removes a bunch of talismans from the wall of their home, he enables Loo to track them. When Mrs Lee sacrifices herself to save Tom and the necklace, Tom finds himself the reluctant apprentice of Mr Hu, (voice of Henry Golding) who is also a Tiger and one of the 12 (Zodiac) Guardian Warriors. As Tom battles with guilt and grief over the death of his grandmother, and tries to come to terms with the new, magical world he has been thrust into, he begins to develop his own powers and he tries to take on Loo alone, only to lose the necklace and lead many of the other Zodiac Warriors into a trap. Can Tom find a way to stop Loo and free the Zodiac Warriors or will the mortal world be darkened and destroyed?
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.
Good versus evil; Death of a loved one; Bullying; Magical forces; Monsters.
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.
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
The Tiger’s Apprentice is an animated fantasy adventure based on the novel by Laurence Yap. The film features an all-star cast but the storyline feels familiar and very predictable. Likely to be most enjoyed by older children and fans of the book.
The main messages from this movie are to know your worth, to believe in yourself and to never, ever give up.
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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