Ok, not that violent, but a lot of the scenes are reminescent of Tom & Jerry. Just old fashioned bite the other animals tail or womp him over the head type stuff. Was enough to make my 3-year old look pretty worried at times. There were probably twenty instances where some animal got Pluto's goat and he tried to take a bite out of it and missed. I'd probably say wait until four years if you bother with this one at all.