Parent reviews for Avengers: Infinity War

3 hours of intense drama and fighting. Humour shown in trailers provides occasional relief but the violence and loss wears you down and it finishes on a cliff-hanger. Girl in row behind me sobbed for last half hour of movie. Not recommended for anyone who wont enjoy viewing tragic loss of characters or just wants a feel-good movie. Waited through several minutes of credits only to see a snippet that was no more cheerful than the movie.

It is definitely the most intense and emotionally charged Marvel Superhero movie they have done. I suggest parents watch it themselves and judge based on your kid, if they are capable and emotionally able to handle it.

In my opinion this is Marvel’s most epic and darkest entry in it’s long line of superhero movies. From it’s brilliantly choreographed, heart-pounding action scenes to it’s hilarious character interactions ( especially between Thor and The Guardians Of The Galaxy ) Avengers: Infinity War will satisfy any superhero enthusiast. The part that really stood out for me was how the Russo Brothers portrayed Thanos: A menacing, but genius villian with motives that leaves us philosophying about our existence. The movie enables us to feel a sense of justification for his actions due to his tragic backstory, which makes him an amazing antagonist. The emotional factor in this movie may be overwhelming to some people under the age of 15, thats why I recommend a more mature audience who understand the basics of the word genocide, famliy, sacrifice etc. A must watch!

Good film but extremely heart-breaking! Might be hard for younger (and older) kids to see their heroes die in this film... Saw it in the movie theater and the kids (about 10 years old) sitting in front of my cried throughout the whole thing.

I will say I have limited knowledge of the Marvel characters but love the Guardians and more recently Black Panther movies. I took my 9 and 13 year old. It was fun seeing all the characters together but they didn't really bridge the gap between, "the Avengers aren't on speaking terms" to " oh hey thanks for showing up". It was very violent (which you expect) but this was long and sustained violence throughout almost the entire movie. My 9 year old said this is not a movie I will watch again. I say this should be rated R because the psychological content was very intense. How a movie is rated should be more than how graphic the sex and violence are. Watching 2 hours of genocide, fighting, torture (a father torturing his own daughter and killing another!) leading up to the bad guy winning with an apocalyptic ending was too much for my little one. We didn't really get a chance to talk about it afterwards and process it. We finally did a couple of days later after another seemingly benign children's movie suggested the main character might die. She was sobbing and I was able to bring up Avengers and let her deal with that. I felt a little like I did after the Black Swan - just whoah.
You have to know your kid ultimately and do allow time to discuss afterwards things that might seem heavy for them. These are very intense concepts for kids to deal with.

Yes, it's the culmination of Marvel movies to this end. And it does not disappointment. All the actors have with very little screen time but they shine. The humor is top notched and good jokes to remember.

And yes, it's not bout the Avengers. This is about Thanos. He justify his actions to use the infinity stones for exterminating half the population, with the reason that it's to save the other half. And this may be surprising to many who had not seen him in the movie, but he make sense. We all know that earth and society resources are finite, and so mass genocide and conquering others is the logical only way for earth and society to survive. It's scary, really scary, and you may be convinced by Thanos and the Black Order. We may not want to go out there now and do genocide, but it'll not be because we don't want to, but because we don't have the will like Thanos.

The moral foil to his justification hence fall on Capt, "we don't trade lives". With that 1 sentence, reason and humanity is restore. Even if it's not logical, not culling people gives us our existence purpose. Hence symbolically the only human able to resist the infinity gauntlet (remember even the Hulk cannot overpower Thanos, lesson here: willpower and moral strength is stronger than muscles)
And the most disturbing part have to be when Gamora thought Thanos is defeated by the Soul Stone's wisdom, but even the most cruel tyrant love someone, and he loved her the most. And because of his unwavering will, he went ahead and kill her. This scene may scared most, maybe all children. Imagine, he only love his daughter, and he kill her, what about my parents?
Please think about the last part before you bring your child to watch this movie.
And of course the ending scene, friend see friend disappear, foster father see prodigy turn to dust. Existence erased just like that.... The killing of Gamora is to prepare us for more tragedy to come. Its too emotional and if your child emotion strength is not tested yet, don't test them at this movie.
If pt 2 reversed the end results, then maybe it'll be better to let your child watch a test back to back.

My boys are 7 and under and I've never had to worry about the marvel movies. But this one has so much unnecessary vulgar language, intense killing scenes and even a sarcastic and disrespectful Jesus bashing line. You dropped the ball big time on this one. Not sure I'll be letting them see the last movie.

Michael Ordona, on your review of Avengers: Infinity War, you gave the movie the “Common Sense Seal” which says on the seal “great for families”. While granted, the themes of the movie are great, heroism, courage, and self-sacrifice, as well as it being very emotional and with believable characters, some things that you stated in your review would make this movie not so great for families. For example, you said that the words “sh*t, a**hole, d**khole” and several others, are used in the movie. That doesn’t exactly seem like something that would be appropriate for families. Another example would be the amount of violence. As you said in your review, “violence is generally bloodless”, however, there are also “Frequent, intense, massively destructive comic book-style action violence, as well as brutal beatings, impalings, stabbings, and sudden smashings/crushings.” What confuses me more though is that you also say that is movie is best viewed by those ages 13+. In the end, I would agree with the part of your review saying it is best viewed by those ages 13+, while disagreeing that the movie is “great for families”, as those who are 13 or older will be able to understand the context of the violence better.

Probably the most intense Marvel Movie to date. As with all Marvel movies this one portrays true values of teamwork and strong examples of courage. In Infinity War it does that and more.

Marvel was serious about making Thanos as bad as ever and in that regard knocked that out of the ball park. Although the avengers gave it their all Thanos was too powerful for them and beat them pretty bad.

Spoiler here (but not detailed) Kids and adults have favorite super heroes that they watched for years and in this movie a good chunk of them bite it. I teared up a little when my favorite hero died. Like I said in the title...Emotional Roller Coaster! Those scenes I would brace yourself for some tears and most likely a hug needed for your younger family members.

Things kids should pay attention too. There are numerous times in the movie where courage, strength and teamwork are definitely emphasized and kids who play team sports would probably appreciate that alot. Although the action scenes are intense the humor in the movie is SUPER FUNNY and will most likely get you and your kids laughing a good amount.

There is some very quick witted curse words but they are extremely short and way to short to judge the entire film.

I went with my nine year old brother and he loved it.

Looking forward to Part 2 next year and Thanos getting his butt kicked.