The Tempest - Parents Movie Review

movie review rating guide for parents and families

MPAA Rating
PG-13

for some nudity, suggestive content and scary images

Genre
Drama, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Director
Julie Taymor

Starring
Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Ben Wishaw

Studio
Touchstone Pictures

Release Date/In Theaters
12/10/2010 - Limited

Movie Summary

In Julie Taymor's adaptation of this William Shakespeare's play she changes the gender of the sorcerer Prospero into a sorceress Prospera. Starring Oscar® winner Helen Mirren as Prospera who finds herself in a power struggle with her brother. Prospera and her young daughter Miranda are sent off on a ship to a remote island. She uses her magical powers to cast spells and to reign over this magical island. A slave, Caliban (Hounsou) wants to raise a rebellion against her. Her journies spiral from revenge to forgiveness. The Tempest movie was filmed against the wide open vistas of the volcanic Hawaiian landscape. Directed by Julie Taymor and starring Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, and Ben Wishaw.

Movie Review for Parents

-by Ginger

This twist on the original Shakespeare classic dishes up something different from the original. In this version, Prospero takes a female form, Prospera. Like the original, this version tells the story of power struggles, magic, and the ill-fated shipwreck. In this parent’s guide to movies The Tempest contains Harry Potter-like magic tricks, treachery, and everything else that one would expect in a Shakespeare movie.

The MPAA movie rating guide for families rated the film at a PG-13 for nudity, suggestive content and scary images. I would have to agree that the movie contains scary images. Caliban runs around most of the movie in little more than a loin cloth and some body paint. It has scary hellhounds and human/hawk like creatures. The story contains spirits, ghosts, and all sorts of various and assundry supernatural creatures that might be too scary for the little ones. It is more like the Harry Potter sort of scary, not overly violent, but it is still too much for the wee ones. This movie rating guide gives it a little more than a PG-13 and would consider it to be appropriate for the preteen and early teens.

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