I took my 6 year old daughter to watch this movie in the theater. It was her first time. I have never heard of the book before so for me was a totally new story I knew nothing about but what the movie trailer was showing. According to it I expected to see something about a fantasy world with fantastic creatures and adventures somewhat similar to Chronicles Of Narnia. I was disappointed to see that all those wonderful images shown in the trailer were pretty much all there was in the movie itself as well. That is about 5 to 10 minutes from a total of 1.5 hours of movie.
On top of that the girl's death took me totally by surprise and I found myself in the situation where instead a nice fantastic story for a 6 year old girl to be faced with a very real and tragic life story.
Don't get me wrong, the movie was very well done and it is a very good one but in my opinion not for kids younger than 10 years old. Fortunately my daughter took the moment very well and when I asked her if she liked it she told me yes but a yes that was also hiding a little disappointment.
I think that every parent should be warned about this movie.
On top of that the girl's death took me totally by surprise and I found myself in the situation where instead a nice fantastic story for a 6 year old girl to be faced with a very real and tragic life story.
Don't get me wrong, the movie was very well done and it is a very good one but in my opinion not for kids younger than 10 years old. Fortunately my daughter took the moment very well and when I asked her if she liked it she told me yes but a yes that was also hiding a little disappointment.
I think that every parent should be warned about this movie.