I love this movie on of the best Pixar movies, it is funny and the ending is good. It is very good and highly recommend for children! The movie is about Monsters, young children might be scared to watch it at first but it isn't scary, just little children watch it without knowing it is about monsters.
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Monsters, Inc.
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Not age appropriate for kids under 4, age appropriate for kids over 5; suggested age 5. -
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Common Sense says
Cuddly, adorable, kid-friendly monster movie.
updated 07.04.08
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 5 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Monsters, Inc.
Parents need to know that this movie is about closet monsters, but from their point of view -- scaring kids is their 9-to-5 job. Kids who are scared easily often come around, especially when the monster Sulley turns into a softy and takes care of the little girl in the story who isn't the least bit afraid of him. However there is one scene where a monster the child does fear straps her to a chair and tries to steel her screams. Kids will find it funny that most monsters fear any contact with kids -- when one monster gets a child's sock on him the whole factory panics and biohazard workers quarantine and shave him. Young kids may need help understanding what the monsters in yellow suits are doing to him and why.
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Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about what Sulley learns about kids and how he changes the factory for the better in the end. They can also talk about how each kid was scared by a certain kind of monster. Why was Boo scared of Randall and not Sulley? Why was Sulley considered such a top-notch scarer then? What would make you laugh the hardest if it came out of your closet?
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Lives inI rate this title on for age 3 and give it- My highlights are:
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- Lives in WashingtonI rate this title iffy for age 5 and give it
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Children might be scared at the beginning of the movie, but when it gets toward the end, it starts to get funnier.
- Lives inI rate this title on for age 6 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
AMAZING! Another spectacular film by Pixar!
This film might prove to be a bit too scary for your yongsters, mainly due to the fact that we are dealing with monsters who's job is to make little children scream. One particular scene with a "Scream Machine" is rather on the disturbing side. If you cna get around that, this is an amazing film. I reccomend it highly to EVERYONE aged 6 and older!
Lives in CaliforniaKids ages: 3I rate this title on for age 3 and give itMy concerns are:- Inappropriate language
- I rate this title off for age 4 and give it
My 4 year old son was scared when he saw the monsters trying to scare the kids, even though he knew the monsters were nice. I think it seemed scary to him to think of being in the kids' place. He has woken us up 4 nights in a row saying he was scared of Monsters Inc., but not about anything specific. Just "the scaring."
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