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All teen and kid reviews for Watchmen

Age
14
Average rating based on 53 kid and teen reviews:
  • 64% say violence is an issue
  • 60% say sexual content is an issue
  • 38% say language is an issue
Teen, 18 years old
October 22, 2009
 
Dark, complex, and f*****g wonderful.
This is an in-freaking-credible movie based off of an in-freaking-credible book. There are copious amounts of sex and violence, but still a good movie. And as a response to EmmaGirly89's review, let me make this perfectly clear. YOU ARE A TEN-YEAR-OLD. You shouldn't even be watching R-rated movies, let alone morality tales. The story made perfect sense to me, it's just too complex for young kids. Let me give you the rundown. This takes place in an alternate 1985, where vigilantes walk among regular people. Russia is fighting with the US during the Cold War at the time, and they have acquired nuclear weapons. Ozymandias prevents world war 3 by blowing up New York by forcing Dr. Manhattan to do so. Rorschach and Nite Owl attempt to stop him, but are too late. Now, the US and Russia are forced to team up to stop Dr. Manhattan. Rorschach is killed because he would have told everyone what had really happened, thus ruining the peace between US and Russia. Still don't follow? That's because this is not a good versus evil superhero movie. This is a dark, complex morality tale that should not be viewed by anyone under the age of fifteen. In other words, if you are under the age of fifteen, you will not understand this movie. It is simply too adult. Read into these things next time before you make a faulty movie review. ;D

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Teen, 17 years old
November 4, 2009
 
Amazing super-hero/morality tale for Mature older teens: 14-15+
This is an amazing movie! Warning parnets, this movie is VERY dark, violent, and adult. Contains Graphic Bloody Violence, including, a guy getting both his arms sawed off with a circular saw, brutal hand-to-hand violence, with graphically breaking bones and blood squirting, and people exploding from the inside out with gory details. Also contains some full male nudty, female nudity, graphic sex, and some language, as well as adult themes. But its an amazing movie i would recomend it! :P

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Teen, 15 years old
October 19, 2009
 
Great movie, but pretty graphic!
This is one of my favorite movies! Great plot, and awesome action sequences! However there is some pretty bad nudity, Dr.Manhatten walks around totally naked for a good portion of the movie... And there is some female frontal nudity as well. And one of the main female characters is almost raped. Other than that its a great movie!

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Teen, 16 years old
March 6, 2009
 
MY AWSOME REVIEW
IT WAS A REAL GOOD MOVIE & I WANT TO WATCH IT AGAIN!!!!

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Teen, 15 years old
October 30, 2009
 
Great movie
Honstly anyone who can understand that behind the gore and blood is a eep and intertwing story line..but most people, Espically mothers cant se past it wirch amazes me all in all a good movie.

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Teen, 18 years old
July 2, 2009
 
Great plot, but very dark and vulgar
Watchmen is one of the most violent superhero films made so far along with Marvel's Punisher movies. the plot involves Ozymandias, the former founder of a group of superheros called Watchmen which includes Nite Owl II, Dr. Manhattan, Silk Spectre II and Rorscach, carrying out a devious plan to involves killing the Comedian (another Watchmen hero), framing Rorscach and destroying cities worldwide to end the Cold War which President Richard Nixon is failing to do. The plot was intresting and rewarding enough, but the film was bogged down, mostly in the second half, but un-needed, gory violence, racous sex and strong profanity. To start off with the violence, it was very strong and very bloody. Examples include a scene where a man has his arm fractured (the bone sticks out and blood spurts), gangsters are blown up (their blood and bones fly everywhere) and a man has his arms cut off by a buzzsaw (his bones are sticking out and blood pours from his former arms). Kids aged 15 and over could handle the graphic violence but may be disturbed by it. The sex and nudity is un called for as well. Dr. Manhattan is almost always nude, and we see his big blue penis. Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre II have sex in two scenes, where see his butt and (briefly) penis, and we see her nipples. Also, the Comedian almost rapes Silk Spectre I, but the only sexual thing we see is when he begins to unfasten his pants, and he is stopped. We also see a stripper's nipples, however, they are darkened. It is also implied that two couples are gay lovers. Kids under 16 or 17 should not watch the sex scenes. The language is very strong. F*** is said nearly 20 times, and BS, AH and SoB are also said. The role models are definitely not inspiring. These superheros are not heroic, they are vulgar, brutal and curse. The worst example is the Comedian, who uses guns as his weapons of choice, drinks and smokes frequently, almost always says the f-word, attempts to rape Silk Spectre I and shoots and kills a woman whom he had sex with. Basically, a strong theme of the film is that humans are vicious. Overall, kids under 15 should never see this film. It is even iffy with ages 15-16 and is age appropriate for 17 and up. The plot and acting were very well done, but if you haven't read the comic book, you'll be almost completely lost. As I said before, the gratuitous violence, sex and profanity bogg the film done. the storyling is also very dark and complex, and may disturb some. Overall, I give it three out of five.

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Teen, 18 years old
March 15, 2009
 
Good
I saw this movie with a bunch of my friends, age ranging from 13-15. I wasn't disturbed at all. The only boderline disturbing thing was the dog with the little girls leg, but that's about it. Yeah, the violence was kind of graphic, but it wasn't too bad, I mean I've seen worse. My dad had no problem letting me see this, and I told him about the violence and sex in it and he agreed that it probably wasn't the worst thing I've see in a movie before. There is a lot of nudity, but I don't really see the big deal. If it was a woman who had complete nudity in the movie, people wouldn't even be talking.

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Teen, 18 years old
March 13, 2009
 
Amazing... but best for fans of the book.
I've read Watchmen a few times and absolutely loved it, so I was one of the people who got really excited when I saw the trailer. This movie fulfilled all of my expectations of an adaptation of the book. Except for the end and a few omissions due to time constraints, it was almost exactly like the book (and I liked the new ending anyway). There were even some moments where a scene appeared EXACTLY as it had been illustrated in the graphic novel. It was amazing. However, THIS MOVIE IS VERY GRAPHIC. It is even more graphic that the book. There are minor changes that make the movie more violet than the book, but these changes are significant in that they are a lot more disturbing. For example, what Rorschach does to the child rapist. There is violence and sex that is definitely inappropriate for younger teenagers. I had to cover my eyes often. I cannot stress how violent this is too much. However, at the same time it is absolutely amazing. The violence doesn't take away from the story (in my opinion) and it turns out to be an amazing, almost-3-hour ride. It might be confusing for those unfamiliar with the graphic novel.

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Kid, 13 years old
March 8, 2009
 
once again,never seen it but...
The whole "A young child's corpse is eaten by dogs, and the ashes of the rest of her remains are shown in a furnace" thing is EXTREMELY creepy! I mean jeez this site allows KIDS(Kids,for god's sake why'd it have to be us!) to just witness all the inappropreate crap in media!Boo!Watchmen FAIL!

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Teen, 13 years old
April 5, 2012
 
Not your Average Superhero Movie
Disappointing very Gruesome and also lots of Nudity the Violence is very Disturbing especially the scene where a man gets his arms cut off.

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Teen, 13 years old
March 14, 2012
 
Well made,but warning:EXTREME VIOLENCE.
Saw this and loved it.Awesome superhero sequences but still,that cannot save the non stop blood and violence.Not for immature Tweens AT ALL.

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Kid, 12 years old
November 22, 2011
 
Watchmen is a good movie very long and very violent
This movie is very violent and good. The movies story line is very complicated to understand. I saw this movie when I was 9 and I had very bad violence and nudity. One character kind of looks scary but he aint scary. Buy this movie on blu-ray or DVD

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Kid, 11 years old
April 12, 2011
 
good movie 14+
I think this was one of the Greatest movies ever!My Mother let me watch this movie but i am not allowed to repeat the cusses on the Cinema.

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Teen, 14 years old
January 28, 2011
 
Great movie for teens, a great movie, with some flaws
This movie is awesome! One of my faves. It follows the book pretty well, and is just as good. it has a great, rocking soundtrack and a great cast. Great acting (except for Silk Specter), writing,and effects. It is extremely gory and sexualy graphic, though.

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Teen, 18 years old
September 23, 2010
 
Does Watchmen deserve to be watched? Absolutely...
...if you're mature enough for it. This is a very dark film filled with many graphic scenes of violence, blood, and gore. There is also lots of sexual content and nudity; one character is naked during most of his scenes. There is also a good deal of swearing, and overall, it's a very dark film. But if you can handle it, Watchmen is a very entertaining and enjoyable film.

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Teen, 15 years old
September 20, 2010
 
Extremely terrible!!
This movie is always bad, and its not meant for children and teenagers, its only meanted for adults. Because they show a penis, having sex in space, and alots of comic (extreme) violence somewhat. So, don't let your kids or teenagers watch this at all!

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Teen, 15 years old
August 23, 2010
 
Awesome for Mature Teenagers
I loved this movie. I liked how there weren't clear lines between good and evil, because in real life people aren't just good or just evil. In most superhero movies the villain's goal is to destroy the world or something like that, which I never got, in real life even people who are doing bad things, they think there doing what's best, which is what it's like in this movie. I'll admit it get's pretty graphic at some points, but it never senselessly graphic. They don't just swear and beat the crap out of people for no reason. The only thing i would truly worry about is the really graphic sex scene between two of the characters, but it really not that bad because it's really dark and there music playing so you can't hear anything. in my opinion any mature teenager won't care that there's a naked guy walking around or that people a swearing. I'm only 13 and this is one of my favorite movies. Very interesting moral questions, multi-dimensional characters, and a coplex and interesting plot. If you think you can handle it, i highly recommend seeing this movie.

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Teen, 15 years old
August 18, 2010
 
not a superhero movie for kids
my fav superhero movie!!!

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Teen, 15 years old
April 4, 2010
 
Excellent film brilliant
That review that coolgabe123 said was utter rubbish he was making it up he is my stupid younger brother this film is a magnificent tail of the inner darkness of a vigilante its probably one of the most important graphic novels of the 1980s and im sick of hearing this rubbish that its the 2nd best superhero film ever the 1st being dark knight. Dark Knight is brilliant but cant be put in the same category as watchmen. Watchmen isnt about superheroes its about the inner morality of a vigilante. Coolgabe123 is making this story up its a terrible review dont listen to him. Watchmen number 1film of 2009

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Teen, 17 years old
March 30, 2010
 
I just saw this movie and I thought it was going to be good. I was wrong... IT IS AN AMAZING MOVIE! Granted, it is very violent and sexual at times, but I think that mature teens should be able to handle the most of it. I have to say though, that the part where the guy gets his arms sliced off with the grinder is really nasty.

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