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Has anyone seen this movie that has a 4 year old. I ask because my lil' girl hasn't seen much movie-wise lately and I would like to take her. I am hesitant to take her to something with much scariness in it(like Lion King, which gave her nightmares of hyenas and mean lions).
Can anyone let me know what, if any, scenes may be scary for a 4yr old?
Thanks
FH
I've seen it twice. In terms of scary scenes, there's a sequence at the beginning with an old lady trying to shoot at Remy and Emil with a gun, and possibly the rapids sequence in the sewers where Remy gets separated from his family. (There's another brief scene later in the movie where Remy's father shows him a store selling rat-traps and posion that has rats caught in the traps on display.)
However, given that your daughter is 4, she might actually be too young for the movie. At the employee screening I went to, one of my co-workers had her sons with her. The 7-year old enjoyed it. (Pixar did a great job with the physical humor), while the 5-year old was bored in parts. This is a movie about French food after all.
Hope this helps,
Mark
Both of my daughters, ages 6 and 3, enjoyed the movie. It wasn't scary for them... there's nothing in the movie that isn't in Tom & Jerry, the Roadrunner or Scooby Doo, anyways.
It is kinda long for an animated movie, and I'm not sure they really got the story about a rat that likes to cook and all, but they sat through it okay.
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My four-year old begged to see the movie. I took him and he had a great time, though towards the end he did stand up because it is asking alot for a lil' kid like that to sit in one place for so long. Luckily we were in an aisle where that didn't matter and in a theater with stadium seating, so no one even noticed. The movie was his first ever at a theater and he had a blast.
I say take her. There wasn't any villians like there usually are in Disney movies. The BBEG's are a very small, funny chef and a nosferatu-like food critic; hardly the stuff of nightmares.
The wife and I saw it recently, and we both loved it... it might be more enjoyable for the parents than for the kids in many cases, I suspect.
Took both my four-year old daughter and my six year old son. Both the kids liked it, and my husband & I thought it was cute too.
My son wasn't scared at all. The granny with the gun didn't bother my daughter nor did the later scene with the poison/trap store. But she *was* frightened by the scene when Remy nearly drowns in the sewer and is separated from his family. Of course, we have a pool and my daughter is just starting to try to learn to swim. The swirling water and underwater panic on the big screen was upsetting to her (she didn't cry but I could tell she was stressed) and she mentioned that she didn't like that part when we left the theatre. Of course, she is equally upset by the scene of the cat's near drowning in Disney's live action "Homeward Bound". Oddly enough, other scary scenes in Disney movies do not upset her - Lion King death/violence, Malifiscent in Sleeping Beauty, Sid/his room/toys in Toy Story, Old Yeller's death, etc. She's not even scared of the wicked witch or the flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz; those monkeys gave me nightmares when I was a kid!
Really, there's no telling with these things. I would try to prepare your daughter by warning her that there are some "scary parts" and encourage her to close her eyes or turn away if something seems scary to her. As a parent, you know her better than anyone else, so just use your best judgement. My father took us to movies every other weekend when I was a kid. Some of the movies weren't very "kid friendly" back then; a handful caused emotional trauma; but in the end, those are some of my fondest childhood memories.
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Yeah it's hard to say, I haven't seen it but my 4 year-old daughter has seen every Disney movie and doesn't get scared at much at all. Last night she watched the third Harry Potter and the Dementors scared her enough to scoot next to me but that was about it. I think it mostly depends on the child and if you kids scare easily might want to wait but I am guessing that if she made it through some of the scarier Disney movies(Beauty and the Beast) she will probably be fine.