Should I take my 14-year-old daughter to see Sweeney Todd?

[leftofthedial]

She is a major Tim Burton-Johnny Depp-Danny Elfman-et al fan. She is quite precocious and mature.

The description of its R rating is for gore and violence. Ten minutes on any number of video or computer games is so devastatingly gory and violent that I can't imagine this film would shock her.

she very much wants to see it. Her grandmother gave us movie passes for Christmas. this is the weekend. After this, she goes back to her mother for a stretch. Any advice?

[lightningandsnow]

1. I know a 13-year-old who saw it.

She LOVED it, and didn't seem all that disturbed by the violence/goriness. Then again, she's quite mature for her age. I haven't seen it, but it seems like it would be okay for a 14-year-old. As a teenager myself (I'm 16), I think at that age you really need to kind of let them go, and not really try to censor much in terms of music/TV/movies. Heck, I was watching The L Word at that age, and nothing bad happened to me. (I guess you could say sex is different from violence, but whatever).

I heard it's a great movie. I'd let her see it, but that's just my opinion.

[AlCzervik]

2. i took my 13 year and her friend, when it got really graphic they covered their eyes

"Can we look yet?" "Nope, not yet" "Now?" "No" "He's not done yet?" "almost" it was pretty funny but they both really liked it.

[blondie58]

3. face it- these kids are so mature in this era

my two daughters know way more than I did when I was even as old as eighteen- okay, yeah I was a late bloomer. But I think that she will be fine. She'll probably cover her eyes if it is unpleasant. Have fun!

[IzaSparrow]

4. ask them how many people they killed during their latest round of

grand theft auto? then ask if they want butter or not?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. Take her. She will love it.

Have fun.

[grasswire]

6. 15-year-old in this household saw it

It seems from reports she gave as if the violence is so over the top that it is mockable. Although I gotta say she wouldn't go run a five block errand for her mom at 5:30 p.m. last night when it was dark outside. Safe neighborhood, but she didn't wanna do it.

[supernova]

7. Yep, I was a junior in High School

when I saw it on Broadway.

If she is already a Tim Burton Fan, then nothing about it will be surprising.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

8. It's a little gory and sad, but 14 should be old enough.

I loved it, but it was kind of a downer.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Let her see it.

As long as you've taught her fiction is different from reality, you shouldn't have a problem.
Side note: You need to see Jersey Girl. The 8 year old in that story is obsessed with that play.
Duckie

[coffeenap]

10. I took my 13 year old daughter. She said since it was so

"Tim Burtony" it didn't seem real. And she really liked it. I had to hide my eyes from the throat-slitting, but she didn't. YMMV.
:hi:

[DS1]

11. My mom took me to see Predator when I was 14

that rocked.

One of the best Ahnold movies.

[Withywindle]

12. It's pretty cartoony, I thought.

Intentionally so, it's very penny-dreadful-gothic and stylized. It's totally blood-spattered, but it's not realistic violence. I'd think a 14-year-old who already likes this sort of thing wouldn't have any trouble with it.

Funny - when I was a teenager my threshold for how much violence and angst I could tolerate in movies without being upset by it was way higher than it is now.

[leftofthedial]

13. thank you all!

I took her and we LOVED it!

outstandingly sly and entertaining fun, in a sick sort of way, which is a good thing . . .

the "gore" is no problemo--some gushing cartoony blood. I think Mrs. Lovett's "business" was the real reason it got an R.