STAR TREK 3 is not the best in the saga, but is still a bunch of fun, with very little objectionable content to boot. Language is mild, with some "d**n"s, "h*lls", and "bas**rd"s. There is some mild violence as well, consisting of some people being shot with vapor rays. There is one brief, somewhat intense scene where a man is stabbed with a knife.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
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Not age appropriate for kids under 8, age appropriate for kids over 10; suggested age 10. -
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Stirring, successful science-fiction enterprise.
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for Ages 10 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Parents need to know that there's much violence, with hand-to-hand combat (and a knifing) in addition to the usual bloodless phaser fire. There's quite a sense of sadness and loss, and a certain heroic starship is destroyed. Kirk and the rest of Spock's friends disobey direct Starfleet orders -- a real first, in a very military discipline-oriented series -- in order to carry out their personal rescue mission. All of the Star Trek world may seem old fashioned to kids used to today's special effects wizardry. It's best to see how they like the TV show first.
Read our full review by Charles Cassady Jr.
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about Spock's code of self-sacrifice for "the needs of the many" and how Kirk reverses that, deciding that "the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many." Kirk and his crew truly risk everything here, including their careers in Starfleet. Though the idea of resurrection from death is tangible throughout the film, only the enigmatic Vulcan mystic-logic culture attaches overt religious significance to the idea of an enduring "soul." The human characters, meanwhile, keep their beliefs to themselves, despite their "emotions." Do you think this is a deeply spiritual film, as many fans do?
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- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
I liked that Spock put his spirit in docter bones (who were always arguing) when he died and the way bones showed that spock was really a good friend. the lengths that the crew from the Enterprise, especially captain Kirk, took to reserect spock shows how much people will give up and endure for a friend. this movie took the theme from the previous star trek movie, "the good of the many outwiegh the good of the few", and flipped it with the same amopunt of meaning.
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
Parents need to know that the second and third Star Trek movies are a lot more violent then Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In one scene a worm-like creature attacks one of the Klingons, and the creature is then squeezed to death. Later on, one of the good guys gets stabbed in the stomach and dies. Then another character is thrown into a pit of lava, and disappears in a burst of flames. But since the special effects aren't very good in the lava scene, it's not as graphic as it might sound. The language is too excessive for a PG movie. While the bad language isn't used as often as in Star Trek II, they find time to get in a 5-letter expletive in one scene.
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