I didn't see any crying kids... my four-year-old son actually fell asleep during the movie. :07laugh

yea, no crying kids here, not because of the movie anyway. there was a little girl crying because her mom wouldn't give her something (shut up in 1 minute flat) and another kid crying (no idea why, they shut up real quick too). there where a TON of kids at the film too. the crowd at the theater i went to was very nicely mixed between the ages. the kids, as well as everybody else, LOVED frenzy. IMO, the only distracting part was the edits they had to make in the film to make it pg-13 (stupid Powerglideing ratings board).

 

after the flick all the kids where excited, as where the adults. some kids wanted to see it again even. also, WOW, there where alot of prime helmets!!

 

as for the movie being too mature... come on... shrek had more adult humor than this flick had o_O. i dunno, maybe kids today are just Beastboxfied, but aside from maybe two or three scenes

soldier impalment and bonecrusher's decapitation

even the violence was pretty tame.

Heh, my cousin was four when we saw the G1 movie in cinemas, and he fell asleep during that. ;)

 

Here the movie is rated M, which means that children under 15 need to be supervised by an adult.

We had one fussy kid in the theater.. I mean, the movie is PG13, and that is more than enough to spook some kids. Parents should have enough brains to check the rating before taking their kids to see something... thats all it is.

 

Maybe they were just crying because they wanted popcorn? And the parents were pissed because they were missing the movie that they spent a lot of money on? I dunno. Could be anything.

Kids are strange creatures, they can cry because of anything, whether it be boredom, toothache from all that candy they wolfed down or terror. And as for four year olds falling asleep, well c'mon now they're practically babies. If I had my way anyone under 5 would be banned from cinemas due to their unpredictable nature.

Kids are definitely not like they used to be in the '80s and so on, but you know what? I've no problem with that. Let kids be kids, and let them be who they want to be.

 

Besides, when they turn into teenagers, they'll make your world turn to Blot and you'll miss the days when all you had to worry about was whether or not Billy broke the lamp or Susie was afraid of a movie.

 

Parents are to blame, if this movie bothers their children. Read a rating, see that your child doesn't fit the criteria, don't take them and you won't have to deal with them having an adverse reaction to it.

 

Powerglide. It's not rocket science.

My kids arent wussies like that. They look at scary stuff and laughs cause I do. I took them to see "monster house" and this like punk kid like 8yrs old started crying before any scary stuff even happened yet?! The suspense of something possibly scary happening got to him. Meanwhile my kids are laughing.

My brother was 13 when Daredevil came out. At the point where Colin Farrel flicks the peanut into that old lady's throat on the plane, he started wimpering. He wanted to leave the entire time from that point on. I got fed up to the point where I whisper/hissed at him that if he wanted to leave, he could do one of two things (I wasn't driving at this point in my life yet). He could call our mother and she could come pick him up and then come back for me later. OR he could just wait outside the auditorium and when the movie was over, we'd leave together. He chose of all things to stay put and kept his mouth shut.

 

So that should say something about kids and sensitivity nowadays. They're too damned sensitive IMO. Kids need to be exposed this stuff more so they'll develop a level of familiarity and not be so sensitive.

 

I'm sure my aforementioned brother (who's now 17 (18 in a few weeks)) would not sit well with Gangs of New York, but then again, he's always been a little sensitive.

 

He freaked out on a movie at 13?

I saw the movie with my niece and nephew ages 8 and 10. A few times, during intense or potentially frightening scenes, they had their hands up near their ears and eyes primed to cover them. I just nudged them and told them not to worry. My sister must have them trained or something. :07laugh

 

The ratings are designed to take into account that all children develop at different rates. What scares one kid might make another laugh. All children develop at different rates. I guess they have figured by age 13 though, you should be able to handle semi-adult situations and subject matter.

My kids arent wussies like that. They look at scary stuff and laughs cause I do. I took them to see "monster house" and this like punk kid like 8yrs old started crying before any scary stuff even happened yet?! The suspense of something possibly scary happening got to him. Meanwhile my kids are laughing.

 

Monsterhouse. :07laugh

 

Seriously that was basically Silent Hill for Kids & it was rated PG.

 

I can't think of anything in Transformers that was nearly as creepy/frightening as this would have been for kids.

 

Speaking of which PG-13 is like universal for most horror flicks nowadays. Disturbing creepy content is a non issue if the movie doesn't contain explicit violence gore.