Not recommended under 5; parental guidance recommended 5-8 (Themes; Violence; Scary scenes)
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Children under 5 | Not recommended due to themes, violence and scary scenes |
Children aged 5-8 | Parental guidance recommended due to themes, violence and scary scenes |
Children aged 8 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: | Two by two |
Classification: | G |
Consumer advice lines: | Very mild themes and animated violence |
Length: | 83 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Two by Two is a animated variation on the biblical flood story, told from the perspective of the animals. Lion (voice of Alan Stanford) the King of the Jungle, assembles all the animals and tells them that a flood is about to destroy the world. Lion says that a kind man named Noah has built an ark to save the animals and they must all come to be registered and to confirm that they are on the list of saved animals.
Dave (voice of Dermot Magennis) and his son Finny (voice of Callum Maloney) are a pair of Nestrians, loveable and adaptable creatures, who discover they are not on the list. Desperate to save his son, Dave disguises them both as Grymps to sneak them on board. There they are housed with real Grymps, Mother Hazel (voice of Tara Flynn) and daughter Leah (voice of Ava Connolly) who are nasty and unfriendly creatures. Leah and Finny go off to explore and when a huge wave hits the ark they discover that they are not on the ark but on the wharf. They desperately try to get back on board the ark but with no luck.
Finny and Leah have a race against time to reach higher ground before they are engulfed by water. Along the way they meet a giant slug called Obesey and Stayput, a parasite, who they help to reach higher ground. As well as the rising flood, the four are in danger of being eaten by the Griffins, a pair of flying creatures. Meanwhile, on the ark, Dave and Hazel have to find a way to work together in order to save their children.
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.
The end of the World; predatory behaviour
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 characters and 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.
Nothing of concern
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.
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Name-calling such as “fatso”; “ugly”; “dozy eyes”
Two by two is a colourful animated movie about the biblical great flood as told from an animal perspective. The main messages from this movie are that every creature has a place and that together we can achieve greater things than as individuals.
The ‘end of the world’ theme might be disturbing for children and the escape from the rising waters is quite intense. There are also a number of violent scenes and scary characters. The film is therefore not recommended for children under 5 and parental guidance is recommended for the 5-8 year-old age group.
The film also has some conflicting messages which might be confusing for children. The Nestrians are good and loveable creatures but are rejected from the ark while the Grymps, who are selfish, nasty creatures who only look after themselves, are allowed on the ark. At the end of the film, the Nestrians become sea creatures who find their place in the sea, but the relevance of this might be lost on young children.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
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