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Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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Not age appropriate for kids under 9, age appropriate for kids over 12; suggested age 11. -
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Common Sense says
Anakin begins his journey to the Dark Side.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 11–12
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What Parents Need to Know
About Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Parents need to know that this episode is not for young children. (Lucas, in a somewhat mixed message, said he would take a nine-year-old but a mature eleven-year-old would be the youngest we think appropirate) Unlike the others, its content is darker emotionally and the action is more violent. Beyond the customary battle scenes, there are severe injuries -- a character is horribly burned. Children are slaughtered (although the massacre itself is offscreen.) There are beheadings and limbs hacked off. Childbirth is pictured in a scene that might be frightening for younger viewers. We recognize it's hard to say no to your younger kids who have been raised on Star Wars, and you are the expert on your own children. But don't underestimate the impact of a beloved figure going bad in a violent way.
Read our full review by Cynthia Fuchs
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about why Anakin makes the decisions he does and what forces exist in the world that make people make destructive decisions. Families can also discuss the reasons for Anakin's unhappiness and ask their children how they feel when they aren't recognized by people they respect. Other excellent topics include asking about conceptions of good and evil, fairness and revenge. How can you deal with anger by talking with close friends or relatives, instead of lashing out? How are wars justified by two sides, both believing they are right?
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Most Recent Reviews
I rate this title off for age 5 and give itMy concerns are:- Excessive violence
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Yet Another Star Wars: Good for kids?
While the message isn't all-together negative, I don't reccomend this for kids under 12. Why? Firstly, let's start from the end. As we near the climax of the film, there is a very graphics scene of someone burning alive. In other areas, you have romance that may tend to be suitable for kids only 13+. Another great Star Wars movie, but plenty of villians, corruption in government, and other mature concepts unfit for younger kids.
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Excessive consumerism
- Negative role models
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
This movie is dark and violent, it could pass for R!
This movie is amazing, but don't take your eight year old to see it! Maybe a nine of ten year old that is mature.
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Excessive consumerism
- Negative role models
10 and up.......... maybe
The vilonce in this movie is not overwelming.. well it can be to some kids. Letting your kids watch this star wars really depends on how mature they are. I would strongly suggest waiting till there atleast 10. Some 10 year olds will be able to handle it and some others will be scared out of there mind. so just make sure your kid is mature enough when there 10. And if there older than 10 then they will probably be ok with the movie.
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Easily the most adult oriented of the Star Wars series
None of the other Star Wars movies are that bad, so this one isn't going to be either, right? Wrong. This is easily the darkest of the series and involved several things that could deeply upset children, such as when Anakin goes to the Jedi temple and slaughters all of the kids and when the clone troopers turn on the Jedi and kill them all. Since this movie is meant to end on a dark note, there is no happy ending and no uplifting plot. This movie is also fairly graphic. Since lightsaber wounds apperently don't bleed they just made Anakin get three of his limbs cut off and catch on fire. Not something I would let kids see.
- I rate this title iffy for age 5 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
it is violent but 5 and up could probably see it
it rocks but it wasnt one of my favorite movies id give it 4 stars
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
The best (and most violent) of the prequels
George Lucas finally got it right with this one. However, it too violent for most tweens.
- I rate this title iffy for age 9 and give it
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
BEST IN THE WHOLE STAR WARS SAGA!!!!!!!!!!!
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Finally, George Lucas may have started the path back to redemption. An actually entertaining movie. My only disgust with this one are those stupid Buzz droids and the stupid droids with their pathetic jokes.
- I rate this title on for age 5 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Excessive consumerism
- Negative role models
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
THE COOLEST PG-13 MOVIE EVER
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Negative role models
Great movie, tame for PG-13
An excellent film, by far the best of the Star Wars prequels. After much pleading on his part, I finally showed it to my then-8-year-old and warned him of the harsher parts. He's since watched it several times (with others of his 8 and 9-year-old friends) and loves it. The two PG-13 parts (Anakin killing the younglings (all done off-screen) and his immolation at the end) should viewed by parents before showing them to kids younger than 11, but for a PG-13 movie, it's pretty tame.
- I rate this title off for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Too Violent
The scene with Anakin being burned and then some sort of horrible squirming figure left behind is too much for young children.
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Excessive consumerism
- Negative role models
Better than Return of the Jedi (which has extreme sex), but has extreme violence
The film is good. But it's too violent for anyone under 10. Message (2 icons): Darth (or Darthie), who emerges here, is very bad. :: Violence (5 icons): Extreme! :: Sex (0 icons): Padm? is pregnant. :: Language (0 icons): Not an issue. :: Consumerism (3 icons): Spinoffs, toys and more. :: Drinking, Drugs and Smoking (0 icons): Not an issue.
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Great movie, should have been rated PG instead of PG 13
Its a great movie and a lot better than the original saga! Obi wan Kenobi fought his former friend just because he knew it was the right thing to do. Yoda's teaching at the beginning of the movie are very inspiring! The lightsaber duel at the end is too violent, how ever.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
good movie
good
- I rate this title off for age 8 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
My eight year old daughter watched this and totally melted down at bedtime. She's still crying because she is too scared to go to sleep. My mistake... lesson learned. Too violent.
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Fun movie- but Star Wars' dark side.
The only PG-13 Star Wars, there's a reason too. From the start. Open's, as always, in space. A gigantic battle between the Sepratist, and Republic fleets. In which ships are being blown to bits. It shows a Starfighter exploding and it's pilot being thrown into space. The first real scene of violence is a duel between Anikin and Obi-wan, with Count Dukoo. It end with Obi-wan being knocked out and Anikin, without his masters guidance and with palpatine's urging, exacuting the count. Several battle scences between clones and droids, in which the clones mortality rate is shown, them being shot, crushed, blown up, and thrown from high places. Jedi are killed by palpatine and by their clone troopers. And clones killed by Obi-wan and Yoda. Anikin going evil- to "save Padme"- in which he Kills most Jedi in the Temple and almost her too. A senator friendly to the Jedi goes to the temple to investagate, where he sees a Padawan [presubably a teenager] being shot be clones. It all ends with an emotionally charged duel between Obi-Wan and Anikin, and the emperor and Yoda. That ends with Yoda having to flee, Obi-Wan maiming Anikin, he, inturn, falling into lava being burned alive, but not killed, shouting to Obi-Wan "I hate you." In the end Luke and Leia are born Padme dies and the death star begans to be built.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
This time I wouldn't bring real littlies
An important piece of the Star Wars story and the opening is stupendous. Normally I tend of put a lot of faith in the resilience of kids imaginations if you get them to talk about things with you but I would not have taken a kid under 10 to see this movie because even I found the wounds recieved by Annakin cringe making. It's long been part of Star Wars lore (since the 80s or so) that that battle took place and that that is how Darth Vader came to need his suit but it is different to see it so graphically on the screen. Also I was very concerned that Obi Wan, the supposed good guy boes not render assistance after Annakin has been defeated and worse still leaves him for dead. I know that Obi Wan had to exit that scene so that Palpatine could find him and put him in his suit but to just have him abandon his duty of care to his aprentice and walk away was shocking. I would have preferred that forces beyond Obi Wan's control took him away.
- I rate this title on for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
A great star wars movie. The violence is just sci fi stuff and nothing to worry about. But i put 12 and up because the movie is a lil creepy itself. The end has a disturbing image of someone burning to death.
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
THE BEST STAR WARS MOVIE
VIOLENT DISTURBING BUT NO LANGUAGE OR SEX AWSOME MOVIE
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