Age limits for movies

[Tim]

I, personally, like to read Yahoo's Movie Mom's review of a film 
before I take my 11y/r old daughter.  If anything is iffy, I'll see 
it alone first.  I took her to all three LOTR films, after reviewing 
them myself first... she loved them.  But, then, my daughter, having 
grown up with an actor father, is a little more privy to theater/film 
secrets that most kids aren't.  The only thing that really gets to my 
daughter is bugs.  She absolutely hated Aragog in HP2 and Shelob in 
ROFK... but it didn't stop her from seeing both films several times.

Tim

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, <nostrebor at r...> wrote:
> Here's what ScreenIt said for HPIII:
> THIS WEEK'S NEW MOVIE REVIEWS FOR JUNE 4TH:
> 
> "HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN"
> (2004) (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson) (PG)
> Adventure:  A young wizard (Radcliffe) must contend with news that a
> murderer has escaped from prison and is coming after him.  The kids 
are
> older and there's a new director behind the scene at Hogwarts in 
this third
> installment of the wildly popular books about wizardry and such by 
author
> J.K. Rowling.  There's a new visual look and feel to the film -- 
which has
> both good and bad points depending on how you viewed the first
> installments -- and it's decidedly more grown-up than the previous 
entries.
> The tone and themes are more in tune with teen angst than the more 
childish
> and whimsical shenanigans found in the earlier efforts.  The result 
is an
> effort that occasionally feels at war with itself, as there are 
moments and
> material straight from the first two films, along with the to-be-
expected
> return of characters and their rote interaction with each other. At 
other
> times, however, the film feels completely new and fresh.  Visually 
appealing
> (with terrific production values) but rather boring in the first 
half, the
> film does get better as it progresses. Even so, the directorial 
dichotomy -- 
> appeasing the fans with regurgitated moments and appealing to 
others with
> the decidedly new and improved look and feel -- results in a mixed 
bag of
> cinematic offerings.  Moodier, deeper and darker than its more 
whimsical and
> adventurous predecessors, the film has its moments and makes one 
hope that
> the transition over to the new approach will be complete next time 
around.
> The PG rating comes from brief profanity (a few minor expletives) 
and
> various scenes - often accompanied by ominous or suspenseful music -
 that
> might be unsettling, suspenseful or downright frightening to kids.  
That
> includes characters seeing and interacting with various menacing 
looking
> beings and monsters, close calls with menacing characters, 
supernatural
> events and various locales that appear foreboding, dangerous or 
simply
> scary.
> (National Release)
> 
> 
> Jodi