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What age is appropriate to watch super hero movies?

Like Spiderman, The Hulk, Star Wars, etc?

My 3 year old is super into action figures and "good guys" fighting "bad guys". Are we majorly screwing him up? 

Re: What age is appropriate to watch super hero movies?

  • I have a friend whose two and a half year old loved to watch playlists of race car crashes on youtube more than anything else on the planet.

    I don't think you're screwing him up. I think we all start off pre-destined for screwiness no matter how hard our parents try to fight it.

  • It depends on the movie. The Watchmen is a very different film from The Incredibles
  • I let D watch the Spiderman episodes on Netflix.  He's four and watched them when he was an older three-year old. 

    I think they're supposed to watch them when they're older, say five or six.  One mom I know though who is super awesome lets her four-year old watch superhero shows.  I mean this is a mom who had her child speaking French at 2 and knew his ABCs right around 2.  

  • I think keeping a boy from his super hero movies at any age is just cruel.  Is there anything non age appropriate in those?  I can't remember.  Not in star wars...  I don't really remember the other ones.  

    My kid is already begging for jewelry, things that sparkle, and twirly dresses.  I assume the love of some of these things is just genetic.  

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  • e loves these movies. he probably started watching them when he was 3.

    so, uh...we're both screwing up our kids!

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  • I have no idea but im

    Officially the reason the post views are climbing so im now randomly  responding... 

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  • It would depend on how scary the imagery in the movie is, to me.  Like if I had a 3 year old, I'd be ok with him/her watching the old Adam West Batman stuff, but I don't think I'd let him watch, the Tim Burton Batmans/ or the Christian Bale Batmans.
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  • I agree about the watchmen but most of the other ones are fine.  I remember seeing them pretty young.  I would advise against the Batman with the Penguin in it though ::shudder::
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  • Batman is not a superhero, he doesn't even have special powers!  
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  • Maybe not a superhero but a regular guy hero!  Batman is awesome!
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  • imageKristie33:
    Batman is not a superhero, he doesn't even have special powers!  

    That just makes him an even better superhero, because he still catches the villains, just like Superman, Spiderman, and Wonder Woman, but he does it without the advantage of innate abilities.

     

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  • My 2 1/2 year old daughter loves Star Wars. She also loves classic Star Trek. She said when she grows up, she wants to be an astronaut. LOL So I'm defiantly screwing her up....... :p 
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