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Final Destination 3

  • Is it age appropriate?

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 16.
  • Is it any good?

    2.0
  • Common Sense says

    More blood, less invention. Not for kids.

Why We Rated This off for Ages 16 and Under

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    No good role models.
  • Violence:

    Frequent and complicated means of death; heads smashed (revealing brains and splatting blood), bodies dismembered and penetrated.
  • Sex:

    Early obnoxious flirtations; character takes digital photo up a girl's skirt; mostly naked girls cooked in tanning tubes.
  • Language:

    Frequent use of the f-word, as well as slang for genitals, "ass" and "damn."
  • Consumerism:

    Slurpees.
  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    One joking reference to drugs ("Are you on crack?").
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Final Destination 3

Parents need to know that this film isn't for young viewers. It's comprised of essentially nonstop violence against teenagers, usually staged in tense or jump scenes. Blood and gore are shown frequently and copiously. Two girls strip and show their breasts full-on before entering tanning tubes. One boy flirts aggressively, using sexual slang. A frightened horse runs through a crowd, accidentally dragging a girl. One girl gives her sister the finger. Lots of scary music and occasional loud noises.

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Families Can Talk About

  • Families can talk about the absence of parents in this movie: Only two even appear, at a funeral and in the background another shot, waiting at school. Why are these kids so alone as they deal with their friends' deaths? They could also talk about why horror movies are so popular, especially with teens.

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Most Recent Reviews

  1. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    Lives in Massachusetts
    I rate this title off for age 15 and give it 4.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language

    Most Gruesome FD movie

    This is the most gruesome FD movie (out of the first 3). It is a lot better then #2 tho. This movie contains nudity (tanning bed scene ( a scene that should probably skip anyway). The violence is the thing you should mostly worry about (someone gets shot in the head by a nail gun (mulitable times, someone gets burned to death by a tanning bed, and a lot more). The language contains a few f-words

  2. Teen Reviewer Age 14
    I rate this title on for age 14 and give it 4.0

    Can you handle the gore??? I CAN!

    I love it! I think if you can handle the gore then your fine! I really love it and getting on DVD! I couldn't watch it to start with but then I kept watching the deaths on youtube and now I'm completely cool with it! Depends whether you like films like this or not. I DON'T usually but I like this film! I love Kris Lemche!!!

  3. Teen Reviewer Age 13
    I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it 3.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Negative message

    IT'S PRETTY FINE.

    FUN BUT, TOO CARTOONY. THE KILLS WERE CARTOONISH.

  4. Kid Reviewer Age 8
    Lives in Kansas
    I rate this title off for age 16 and give it 4.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content

    adults

    its too violent and has many nudity and sex references

  5. Kid Reviewer Age 12
    Lives in Florida
    I rate this title iffy for age 17 and give it 1.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message
    • Negative role models

    TOTAL BLOOD AND GORE!!!!

    final destination SUKS SOOO BAD!!! i cant stand seeing heads fling and getting crushed or ppl gettting cut into pieces or being burned and have a bunch of nails kill u!!!! this movie has no story and is totally POINTLESS!!!!

  6. Teen Reviewer Age 16
    Lives in Kentucky
    I rate this title on for age 15 and give it 1.0

    So bloody!

    I believe that the fist film of Final Destination is the best!

  7. Teen Reviewer Age 17
    Lives in Georgia
    I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 5.0

    of the chain dawg

    this movie is so damn gory, i love the death when that girls has like 15 nails go through her face, and can't forget when that guy is splattered by that sign, and all his intestines are showing on grass.

  8. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    Lives in Oklahoma
    I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 5.0

    Great movie,

    Bloody of course, but i gave the social behaviour an on because the main chracaters struggle to save lives..

  9. Teen Reviewer Age 13
    Lives in Massachusetts
    I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it 4.0

    I really love this movie! FUNNY also!

    Well in my opinion, I really like this movie and I thought it was good! I saw this was my cousin in Canada and I was craving for a rated R scary movie so I watched it and it turned out pretty good. Mycousin and I are only 12 years old and I enjoyed it!

  10. Teen Reviewer Age 17
    Lives in Ohio
    I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it 3.0

    uhh . . . not bad

    ok this movie is NOT as bad as every one said, so what sum dude got his head cut up by a car engine and sum ppl died on a rollercoaster accident, its not any worse than the other movies out there. this is an ok movie over-all

  11. Teen Reviewer Age 13
    Lives in New Jersey
    I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it 3.0

    i bursted a gut laughing at this.

    me nmy friend laugh so hard wen we watched the movie when the ppl/people died.but its really bad with the curesing n other stuf bad stuff.i thought it was a really bad movie but i luv scarey movies.

  12. Teen Reviewer Age 13
    Lives in California
    I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it 3.0

    This movie is not funny I mean it!!!!

    The fact that all the blood is not funny what if ths happened?I mean look at rollercoster acstedent its so bloody!!And the part with the subway was SO BLOODY!!So thats why I rate it a pause becase of its blood and gore

  13. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    Lives in New York
    I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 2.0

    Grose Movie

    I probobly spelt Groose wrong but i don't care. This movie is desgusting! I had seen parts of the 1st and second one. My older stepbrother decided to watch FD3 while we were on vacation at my cousin's house in Washington D.C and i was like ok w/e.He had control of the Tv anyway. The rollercoaster part was not that scary. Gory deffinatly but i could handle it. Then i saw the part in the tannning booth. I was so grossed out. I left the room but my stepbrother's were enjoying it because you see the girls boobs. Ewww. I had my friend watch it for me at her house the next time it was on and she told me everything. The other events in this movie are nausiating. So today 4/3/07 i caught my younger stepbrother watching it right at the part in the tanning booth again. So i got him in trouble because he is only 11 and i know it what happens beyond this point will scare him. Besides it's rated R so he wasn't supposed to be watching it anyway. But if i hadn't told my stepmom he would be having bad dreams for a month. Basically, Final Destination 3 is scary and very stupid. It also has a very pointless ending. I wouldn't reccomend it it to anyone!

  14. Teen Reviewer Age 14
    Lives in California
    I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 2.0

    so stupid, it's funny

    Final destination is without a doubt the stupidest, most unrealistic movie of all time. It's so dumb, it's funny, though. This is NOT FOR KIDS though. It is EXTREMELY violent, and gory. I think more blood spurts out of a man's head than is produced in the human body.

  15. Teen Reviewer Age 13
    Lives in California
    I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 0.0

    more wrong than hostel and saw 1-3 combined!

    DO NOT VIEW!! this is just plain sick, who would pay to see nothing but totally sadistic death from seemingly possesd rides, who would pay to se a girl being cooked alive with melting glass on herselve while naked, this is absaloutly sick and disgusting, it should be removed from theaters for good. thats what i think about this movie, i mean what next? i suppose i guys head is gonna be decapitated and pile-drvied into nothing but blood and brains? oh great they put that into it too. i dont even think ANYONE should watch this unless they are completely sadistic, period

  16. Adult Reviewer
    Lives in Missouri
    I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give it 3.0

  17. Teen Reviewer Age 16
    Lives in Arizona
    I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 5.0

  18. Adult Reviewer
    Lives in Nevada
    I rate this title on for age 17 and give it 3.0

    Ok for my age

    This was pointlessly gory and fun. Not for youngsters but fine for my age

  19. I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 5.0

  20. Adult Reviewer
    I rate this title off for age 2 and give it 0.0

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