Deseret News | 'Wild Things' really is too scary for kids under 8

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Jeff Vice: 'Wild Things' really is too scary for kids under 8

Anonymous | 7:17 p.m. Oct. 17, 2009

Wow... some kids need to get a backbone, this world is goin' eat them up and spit them out.

Dennyg | 7:51 p.m. Oct. 17, 2009

Only kids that have been shelterd and read mother goose their entire lives.

Mary | 8:36 p.m. Oct. 17, 2009

I don't know--I saw a 3 year old boy walk out with his mom last night howling and laughing, and his 4 year old sister dancing to the kicky soundtrack. And not once did I hear any kids cry out or scream at the "Scary" parts. I only heard one boy whisper "Oh no! Don't eat Max! He's your friend!"

I think that a lot of adults don't give children enough credit.

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lakjsdlk | 9:18 p.m. Oct. 17, 2009

i saw it today its a great movie and kids under 8 can most definitly watch it if the 4 year old in the theater liked it as much as they did

jill | 12:33 p.m. Oct. 18, 2009

Yeah, forget about scary-how about dumb and boring? My kids didn't like it at all and I hated every minute of it. It seemed so long, and random. Never really got the point of it- I would not recommend it.

advice | 2:09 p.m. Oct. 18, 2009

So, if any parent out there takes their advice from a newspaper forum, then that is the really scary part. See it for yourself, then decide if it's OK for your own children. I have two kids, and I would never take my 5 year old boy to it, almost any movie is to scary for him. I would however take my 3 year old daughter, she doesn't have issues with scary movies

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