Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
A boy visits his father in China and helps save a panda cub
from poachers.
SEX/NUDITY 2 - When a boy and a young girl find leeches on their bodies,
they strip and run into the river to wash them off; we see bare legs and arms, and the
characters are uncomfortably aware of the others' nudity.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - Twice the boy and girl fall into fast-moving rivers
screaming (the girl can't swim). The mother panda is caught in a trap and is almost shot
by poachers. Throughout the film the poachers chase the boy and girl and there is a fight
along a cliff. A couple of chases with runaway carts. In a cartoon before the film there
are kicks, punches, chases and cartoon violence.
MESSAGE - You have to spend time with your child to be able to call yourself
a father; saving animals is important and killing them for profit is wrong.
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not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many
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keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period.
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limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process.
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