Disclaimer: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures provided me with 2 free tickets to an advance screening to facilitate this review. All opinions are 100% mine and my husband. Studio Boilerplate, images, and video where provided by Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesDisney's The Lone Ranger was released in theaters today. My husband and I enjoyed the movie. As he said "It was not a great movie, but a fun summer movie." As the movie is rated PG-13 many parents may be wondering if it is suitable to take their child under 13.
As background into our thought process: My daughter, age 7.5, has seen a number of PG-13 movies although occasionally at home we fast-forward through some scenes. Typically my husband and I watch the movie first and then decide if she can watch it. The PG-13 movies that she has seen include The Avengers, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (we will let her watch at least Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince). The only one of these that she saw in the theater was Iron Man 3. We are more strict on language and sexual situations than violence especially the fantasy/science-fiction violence depicted in the movies above.
The Lone Ranger was an extremely violent film. The violence lacks the fantasy/science-fiction and for that reason alone, I do not recommend it to children under the age of 13. The violence is rampant throughout the film. I list two examples below the trailer. If you are squeamish, you may want to skip reading them. They briefly visit a whorehouse, although there was nothing overly sexualized in that scene. The language is fairly mild as far as cursing. The most objectionable language here would be in how the Native Americans are referenced. However, the language was appropriate to the historical time frame of the movie and fairly mild.
For a kid friendly movie, I recommend Monsters University or Despicable Me 2.
The movie trailer is located below:
Violence spoilers - not for the squeamish:
Early on, the villain Cavendish cuts out a heart and eats it. While the actually violence is not shown on-screen you see enough to know what is going on as well as the revulsion of his posse and it is later referenced. There is also a scene where a beam falls on two bad-guys. From a distance the scene is fine, but then they pull in close and you see that it is laying where there heads should have been.
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