• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 5, age appropriate for kids over 8; suggested age 8.

• Is it any good?

  2.0

• Common Sense says

  CGI Star Wars saga is dull, despite action.

Why We Rated This for Ages 8 and Up

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  Some discussion of "the privilege of teaching." The kidnapping of a crime lord's son figures prominently in the plot. Several references to "gangsters" and "scum." Another character is referred to as an "assassin." An alien infant is exposed to some peril. Some burp-and-belch humor.
• Violence & scariness :

  Constant -- albeit bloodless -- animated science-fiction action, including lightsaber duels and small-arms and artillery fire of energy beams. Much of the violence is perpetrated against robots, but some isn't, including several soldiers in high-tech armor taking fire and falling in battle, with phrases like "Get a medic"" and "Man down!" used to imply the severity of the circumstances. A solider in battle armor is shot through the heart with an energy beam. Some hand-to-hand fighting. Spaceships, clearly staffed by human characters, explode.
• Sexy stuff :

  Alien dancing girls perform in tight clothing; some longing glances.
• Language:

  Minimal use of "damn."
• Consumerism:

  Not an issue.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  In an outer-space nightclub, several non-humans drink what are presumably intoxicants; a huge, slug-like alien smokes from a hookah.

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