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Logan

Movie R 2017 137 minutes
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Common Sense Media Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson By Jeffrey M. Anderson , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 16+

Poignant, grown-up, very violent superhero movie.

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age 15+

Based on 109 parent reviews

age 14+

amazing

it is just so moving, I cant imagine a better movie then this. it is very violent but amazing, it is also very sad, probably the saddest movie I know.
age 15+

Love it is v. Violent

Is probably my favourite superhero film is sooooooo good but very violent and brutal like gladiator the violence is never really lingered on but is really brutal with realistic blood sprays and gurgling. Also lots of swearing (fuck,fucking,motherfucker,fuck-stick etc,etc) and a shot of breasts and brief rear male nudity just an epic emotional film (more violent than deadpool whatever people say)

What's the Story?

In LOGAN, it's the year 2029, and Logan (Hugh Jackman) -- the mutant superhero once known as Wolverine -- isn't what he once was. His healing powers are ebbing, everything is harder for him, and he's in constant pain. He hides out in a desert compound with the now-90-something Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who suffers from chronic psychic fits, and albino mutant Caliban (Stephen Merchant). Their superhero days are over, and no new mutants have appeared in years. Then a woman arrives, asking Logan to look after a young girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) and take her to a safe place in North Dakota. Along the way (possible spoiler alert!), Logan learns that the girl is actually his daughter, created in a horrific lab experiment using his DNA. And the men who created her are coming.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
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The movie equivalent to Frank Miller's renowned comic book The Dark Knight Returns, this entry in the X-Men series is moving and grown-up, elevating the superhero genre to new heights. Jackman gives an astonishing performance as a hurting Logan; he's no longer Wolverine, just a man who's lived a hard, hard life and is looking at an unforgiving, grim future. Meanwhile, director James Mangold improves on his last outing The Wolverine, here delivering a sad, fatalistic -- yet stunningly poignant -- look at regret and loss.

It recalls a Western, filled with cracked, dusty American spaces (Shane is shown on TV.) Characters wrestle with the landscape on the exterior while wrestling with their pasts, fears, and desires on the interior. It helps that we know Logan so well and that he's been so impossibly cool for so long. Now he becomes human for the first time, experiencing what a family might have been like, as well as a longing for resignation. The movie has action, but, rather than celebrating exhilaration, it's deliberately wearisome. Perhaps most profoundly, Logan achieves a sense of generations, of life changing, unknown, leaving some folks behind but trudging forever on.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about Logan's violence. How does it compare to other, somewhat milder superhero movies? How does the fact that there's more blood affect the impact of what you're seeing? Does exposure to violent media desensitize kids to violence?

  • Why do you think the filmmakers decided to make Logan edgier than the previous X-Men/Wolverine movies? Is there a risk in making this kind of movie inappropriate for younger comics fans?

  • What does the movie have to say about family? Why does Logan believe he doesn't deserve, or can't have, a family?

  • How do drinking and drugs come into the story? How are they portrayed? Are they glamorized? Why does that matter?

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