Consensus among the kid reviews is: ok for 12/13+. That's how I
felt about rated R movies when I was that age too. They're
probably right: That's the age I watched all the horror movies
that were rated R - but the rule always seems to follow: R
movies are watched by the 12/13 yr olds. PG-13 are watched by 8
yr olds. PG are watched by 5 yr olds and G are watched by
grownups who are tired of language/sex/violence and just want a
nice story. == Considering the character I'm not surprised.
Pushing the envelopes. But - it's a Marvel character. They're
gonna watch it. Parents of kids under 12/13 who bring their kids
in to see it are not responsible. Above that age? Eh, depends
but if they're fans, they'll just have to cover their own
ears/eyes at the bits they don't wanna see. == Yeah - 5's too
little. Nightmare city. Then again, the original Grimm's fairy
tales were pretty rough and the older Disney movies were
twisted. Even today, there was "Gravity Falls" on Disney XD. My
10.5 yr old nephew LOVED it, as many kids his age. It's Y-11 so
he's right in the market. But my 4 yr old niece was dreadfully
scared of a lot of it and won't watch it. Y-11 for a good
reason. == Yup - and parents of smaller kids are STILL going to
ignore it thinking it's just a warped Spider Man. == They just
had the final episode movie last night I think. The guy who made
it was surprised Disney went for it because he only wanted to do
a couple of seasons, and that's just what he did. Now he's going
to do a show for Fox, although I'm sure he'll do the occasional
Gravity Falls movie. Yeah, Bill Cipher. I know all about him. 4
dimensional being that we can only see in 2 dimensions because
we're in 3 dimensions, whose cousin was lost and he wants to
find him.... yeah, heard allllllllllll about it throughout the
lifetime of the show. Fed perfectly into the Illuminati meme
stuff going around in that age bracket too so Disney's timing
was good. == Love the artwork by the way - all of it. Did they
get into Yo-Kai Watch yet? That's even more interesting
demon-wise: genius idea for a show. It's Pokemon-ish but uses
Japanese folklore where dead demons influence your every move in
life. When you have to go to the bathroom? It's figgipop. When
you forgot someone's name? It's another one. One nice feature I
like about it is that you have to make friends with them or
they'll leave, unlike Pokemon which is cock-fighting. == Kids
that age are into cryptography, secret coded messages, stuff
like that. I only saw two episodes of Gravity Falls 'cause I had
to, but I could see why they get really into it. My nephew just
started teaching himself sign language and is teaching two of
his friends so they can communicate. I did the same kind of
things with sign language and braille too at that age. Still
love languages. Ah yes, FNAF - and the Creepypasta's. The
Creepypasta's are downright poop in your pants scary. I suffered
through one a year or two ago when my nephew was 8 that he
wanted me to listen with him because he was scared... but it
scared *me* too! lol. == Five nights at Freddy's, Gravity Falls,
Minecraft, online RPGs like Roblox, Animal Jam, Illuminati,
Creepypasta, games where you are trapped and have to survive
with spooky music, JUMPSCARES (everything has a jumpscare),
mangled robots.... yeah... all par for the course. == Yeah -
they're all great games. I ran a Minecraft server from 2012-2014
for him and had a blast. I'm still not that great at it (I built
a scale model of my house in it and I like mining), and
sometimes my nephew will drag me onto big public servers to
fight. Terraria is also a great game - it's got some creepy
stuff in it as well. I haven't played it in about two years but
I heard they massively updated it. My nephew had me show him how
to hack items in so he could have more powerful equipment. [it's
the benefit and the drawback of being an old fashioned "whiz
kid" - I can figure out how to do stuff]. Now he's hacking his
own games and doing a little programming on his own. Kinda proud
of him actually. Somewhere along the line, I became expert at
the common interests of his age range: I wanted to be a step or
two ahead of him so when he starts rattling on about something
I'll know what he's talking about instead of playing catch up.
== [and by 'expert' it means: I know 1% of what he's talking
about, but enough to *seem* intelligent about it] ==
