Hi, my mum asked me if I would like to take my 2-year-old son to see the film The march of the penguins at the cinema with her. My son loves the cinema and has no problems about sitting still throughout the film, and he will love the penguins, but I have heard that it is a sad film because the baby penguins die. Do you think this would upset a 2-year-old? I'm not sure whether to take him or not. What do you think?

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Originally posted by judyc:
Hi, my mum asked me if I would like to take my 2-year-old son to see the film The march of the penguins at the cinema with her. My son loves the cinema and has no problems about sitting still throughout the film, and he will love the penguins, but I have heard that it is a sad film because the baby penguins die. Do you think this would upset a 2-year-old? I'm not sure whether to take him or not. What do you think?

Hi there, I took my son to see Who Framed Roger Rabbit and he was really upset when the little "Toon" shoe was dropped in the barrel of goo and "killed", he cried hysterically and I had to comfort him for ages. I am sure a 2 y.o. would be upset, if he understands death and hurt. Maybe when he's older and you can explain things better to him?

Thanks for your replies, I did take him to see the film and he enjoyed it and didn't get upset, but he did get a bit bored half way through and started wandering around. He was fascinated by the fact that each row of seats had a letter of the alphabet in green lights. When he found the letter G he shouted "G for Granny!" and ran over and tried to pull my mum by the hand to show her. Luckily it was the afternoon showing and the cinema was almost empty.

After the film I asked him some questions to see how much he'd understood. I asked him what the penguins were doing and he said playing in the snow. When I asked him what came out of the penguin's egg he said a caterpillar! Well I have read him the very hungry caterpillar about a million times so that's probably where he got the idea.

But it contains mild peril!!!!

I bought Two Brothers for my 3 year old who was only 2 at the time I bought it. I decided to watch it when she was asleep first just to make sure it was suitable as she adores big cats.
I am VERY glad I watched it first as I was horrified by the whole film she would have cried her heart out through the entire film.
I took the film straight back to Woolworths, shouted at them for daring to have such a disgusting film in the kids section then swapped it for a Fimbles dvd instead!
Definitely a good idea to watch films you're unsure of before you let little ones see them

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Originally posted by Unchained:
I dont like boring films. If i was the producer of that film I would scrap the project before it even go of the ground. You dont go to the cinema to watch wildlife documentries, thats reserved for bbc2 and the discovery channel.

But penguins are much more exciting when they're 8 foot tall.

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Originally posted by makeo:
do you think there is someone called - ' mild peril ' ? that'd be good . this film contains mild peril . hee hee

I am.

But I'm too shit to be in films, I'm in Emmerdale. I'm Betty's wig.

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Originally posted by Unchained:
I dont like boring films. If i was the producer of that film I would scrap the project before it even go of the ground. You dont go to the cinema to watch wildlife documentries, thats reserved for bbc2 and the discovery channel.

well those of us who dont live on craggy island quite like to watch documentaries at the cinema :-P