But she has dreams of leaving the island and traveling the high seas, despite her parents’ wishes for her to stay put. It’s a great choice for the whole family - a two-time Academy Award nominee for best animated film and best original song for the girl-power anthem “How Far I’ll Go.” The latest musical extravaganza from Walt Disney Animation Studios features newcomer Auli’I Cravalho as the title character, a Polynesian teen who’s next in line to lead her tribe. If, for some reason, your kids haven’t already seen Moana, now is the perfect time to show it to them. Rating: PG, for peril, some scary images and brief thematic elements. I’d say this is OK for viewers around 9 or 10 and older. There’s also quite a bit of language, including the one F-bomb you get in a PG-13 movie, courtesy of John C. It is pretty intense, though, with a lot of violence, gunfire, monster action and helicopter destruction, and not everyone makes it out alive. (What’s in the water surrounding this place anyway?) I brought my 7-year-old son and he thought Kong was a blast. But he might be super-scary for very little kids, especially as he battles the many other oversized monsters that happen to call this island home. This is not a spoiler: If you’ve ever seen any incarnation of King Kong, you know he’s misunderstood. You’re here to see King Kong, who rules the island as a fearsome, deadly, but ultimately gentle giant. They include an expert tracker (Tom Hiddleston), a war photographer (Brie Larson), the head of a shadowy government agency (John Goodman), and a military team with a no-nonsense leader (Samuel L. A team of explorers visits an uncharted island in the South Pacific in 1973 and finds more danger than they ever could have imagined. This action epic from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has the spirit of a classic Ray Harryhausen film with the benefit of high-tech special effects. If you like your monster movies big and dumb, you will love Kong: Skull Island. Rating: PG-13, for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for brief strong language.
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