Not suitable under 12; parental guidance to 13 (violence, scary scenes)
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Children under 12 | Not suitable due to high level of violence and scary scenes. |
Children aged 12–13 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence and scary scenes. |
Children aged 14 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: | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts |
Classification: | M |
Consumer advice lines: | Action violence |
Length: | 127 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Set in 1994 Brooklyn, Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) is unable to find employment having left the army with a bad record. Much of his time is devoted to taking care of his younger brother, Kris (Dean Scott Vazquez), who has a medical condition. When Noah’s friend Reek (Tobe Nwigwe) suggests he steals a car for money, Noah reluctantly agrees and he chooses a silver Porsche, which turns out to be Mirage, (voice of Pete Davidson) an Autobot spy. Mirage takes over control of the car and Noah finds himself caught up in an intense war between the Autobots, together with the Maximals (a race of advanced beast robots), and the Terrorcons, together with their Predacon drones. The Terrorcons are under the command of Unicron, a dark lord who wants to rule the universe. The Autobots have fled their home planet Cybertron, and are now searching for the Transwarp Key on Earth which will help them return home.
Meanwhile, Elena Wallace (Dominique Fishback), an expert in ancient artefacts, is studying a falcon statue when she inadvertently breaks it open, revealing the Transwarp Key. The Key immediately emits an energy pulse into the atmosphere, alerting Unicron to its presence. Unicron sends his army of Terrorcons, led by Scourge (voice of Peter Dinklage), to recover the Key which can open portals through time. The Terrorcons and Autobots fight over the Key, which is unfortunately captured by Scourge. However, the Maximals, and their leader Optimus Primal (voice of Ron Perlman), advise the Autobots that they have only captured half of the Key. The other half is being kept by a group of humans living in Peru to prevent its easy capture.
Noah and Elena travel to Peru together with the Autobots and the Maximals to recover the other half of the Key. It is a perilous expedition and when all hope seems lost, Noah calls on all of his reserves to fight and defend planet Earth and his loved ones.
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.
Science Fiction; Intergalactic Wars; Action/Adventure.
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 violence throughout 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.
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.
The following products are displayed or used in this movie:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is an action-adventure, Sci-Fi movie. It is a prequel to Transformers (2007) and a sequel to Bumblebee (2018). The film is fast moving and full of action violence. It is also quite difficult to follow if the viewer hasn’t seen the other Transformer movies. The high level of violence and scary scenes make this film not suitable for children under 12 and parental guidance is recommended for children aged 12 – 13.
The main messages from this movie are to learn to trust those who are different from you but are on your side; and that good overcomes evil.
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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