Not suitable under 6; parental guidance to 7 (violence, scary scenes)
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Children under 6 | Not suitable due to violence and scary scenes. |
Children aged 6–7 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence. |
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: | Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild themes, some scenes may scare young children |
Length: | 79 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Wallace (voice of Ben Whitehead) and Gromit have become local heroes since they helped to capture Feathers McGraw, a penguin who stole the famous blue diamond. Feathers was sent to prison and is serving his time in a zoo. Wallace has recently invented a ‘smart’ gnome robot called Norbot (Reece Shearsmith) who can clean and tidy the house and garden in no time, much to the annoyance of Gromit. Gromit feels that Wallace has become more attached to Norbot than him. This all changes, however, when the dastardly Feathers manages to bypass the prison guards, hacks into Wallace’s computer, and reprogrammes Norbot to ‘evil’ rather than ‘good’.
Norbot, along with an army of gnome clones, wreak havoc amongst the neighbourhood. Wallace becomes a wanted criminal and has to go to great lengths to clear his good name.
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.
Robots; Revenge; Characters 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 some violence in this movie, mostly done for laughs, including several pratfalls, and characters being knocked over and hit.
Other 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.
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.
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some very mild coarse language in this movie, including:
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the second feature-length film released by the Wallace & Gromit franchise, featuring Aardman’s much loved characters. The film is very funny and likely to appeal to most age groups, however, due to the level of violence and some scary scenes it isn’t suitable for children under 6 and parental guidance is recommended for 6–7-year-olds.
The main messages from this movie are to never stop being creative and that revenge doesn’t pay.
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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