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December 20, 2022
Not for Kids - bad message
This is completely unacceptable for a children's Disney movie! I cannot believe it, it makes me so uncomfortable. Have you ever heard of "Dante's Inferno" ?? The fact that the dog's name in this movie is Dante. And the boy is coming back and forth from Hell. You can't just do that, once you're dead, you're dead. What kind of message is this sending to your children?? Dante, and his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and then Heaven. It's the biggest blasphemy ever, then calling it "the Divine Comedy". Why put all this into a kids Disney movie? I'm tired of Disney planting seeds into children's heads. We're never going to be watching this movie ever again.
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October 13, 2022
Too dark and heavy for deep thinking kids
It has a murder theme in it. That alone should be a heads up that it isn’t going to be ok for a lot of kids. Sensitive kids likely won’t do ok with this film under age 10. It has too much darkness in it - death, skeletons, heaven and he’ll kind of ideas. My 7 year old son has been struggling to sleep since this film, major separation anxiety, fear about heaven (and we are not religious), afraid to be by himself to do anything. He watched it in school. We would never have shown him this movie as we would have known it would scare him . It isn’t appropriate without parental support … it should be rated PG if it isn’t already. It is not for all audiences. It has allusions to smoking and alcohol and murder etc. Just too much grown up stuff. If you’re raising your kids to be kids … then this film pulls them into the adult world very quickly! I watched it as an adult and liked it … but I don’t think it is for children under 10, unless you allow your kids access to adult content. Which is fine, to each their own, just know what you’re getting into - this isn’t a little kids movie.
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July 13, 2022
My daughter got extremely scared from this movie! Here is one of the worst examples.
A musician stole everything from a someone and then poisoned him. The person who got poisoned died. What kind of movie is this for a 7 year old - or an 8 year old for that matter. My daughter has been stressed from time to time ever since she saw this awful movie! There are many other examples that I won't detail here but, the point is, there is a lot of violence and other age-inappropriate content. My advice is to wait until your child is older or just avoid this movie all together.
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March 25, 2018
Kids movie with MURDER?!?!?
The exposure of our youth to violence has become more and more acceptable, but I was appalled that Pixar portrayed a complete murder scene of a central character explained by simple greed for songs he wants - much in the same way a child might do something impulsively destructive over a toy they want. Why would we ever want to plant that seed of possibility in a child too young to understand that it is undoubtedly wrong and irreversible. In this movie, death is trivialized and hard to interpret (as the afterlife looks pretty magical and seamless with life), love in the family is conditional, time is easy to misunderstand (because we only see the single day of the year on the Day of the Dead), and murder in almost condoned (as it's committed by the character shown for most of the movie as an idolized guitar god with success, adulation and wealth during life and afterlife). The cultural aspects and appreciation of music hardly outweighs the abundance of horrible things in the movie. The final nail in the coffin, my kids didn't even like the movie and said they'd rather not watch it ever again.
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January 21, 2022
My family’s favorite
My bilingual, multi- cultural household loves this movie. Of course, it is about death. I’m not sure why people are so surprised. Dia De Los Muertos literally means Day of the Dead. If you’re not comfortable with death or you have sensitive children, I would not recommend this movie. My age rating was based on the ages of my kids. A PG movie doesn’t necessarily mean it’s for small kids. Those are G rated movies. My family loved it and was even a family Christmas movie. We watch it a lot. I recommend it as long as the kids are okay with death, skeletons, alcohol and alebrijes.
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January 8, 2022
It was too soon for my 6 years old son.
The movie is great, but not for my kid yet. After some time into the movie, my son started looking back and covering his ears. The movie is about skeletons, and I think that's what has frightened him. (Thought they aren't that frightening.) He is already sensitive to seeing movies. So for him, maybe we'll wait two more years.
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February 24, 2019
Amazing movie
Okay so i know parents and kids out their are like”CANT BELIEVE THERE IS A MURDER” well the murder isn’t explicit but obvious. Also Coco does have that as the only dark actual part. But aren’t we forgeting that Toy story 3 had dark parts and no one complained. Now i feel like some ppl are exaggerating with this “dark scene”. Kids as young as 8 years old are cussing at school and talking about sex so im pretty sure they know what this is. I feel some parents are taking this movie waaaayyyy to literal.
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July 17, 2022
I love this movie! The songs are great. Really entertaining, exciting, and sweet. I agree with the post that said not for people who are mourning as it might hit too close to home. Also not for young children as there are some scary parts. But 10 and up should be fine! It is really good and will make you crave Mexican food!
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October 25, 2024
Domestic violence forces a child to run away. Bad family role models.
There's domestic violence shown in a neutral light which forces a child to run away. The movies does not have positive role models. I greatly regret showing this to my kid, this movie is not suitable for kids under 15.
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October 11, 2024
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