Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Parents Guide: Is the movie OK for kids?

Bontent's parent guide suggests Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is best for ages 12+. It's rated PG-13. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a PG-13 fantasy film set in 1920s New York, following Newt Scamander as he tracks down magical creatures that escaped his briefcase. The film features intense magical combat…

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is officially rated PG-13. Bontent's independent parent guide recommends it for ages 12+.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a PG-13 fantasy film set in 1920s New York, following Newt Scamander as he tracks down magical creatures that escaped his briefcase. The film features intense magical combat, scenes of peril, and dark themes involving child abuse and destructive entities known as Obscurials…

The film contains very mild suggestive content, primarily character flirting, a mention of magical creatures mating, and female characters wearing modest low-cut period clothing.

Violence is moderate and consistent with a PG-13 fantasy rating. It includes magical duels, people being thrown by invisible forces, and several on-screen deaths that involve dust-like disintegration or collapse. While not overtly gory, some scenes show the…

Very mild language is present, limited to a few uses of the phrase 'what the hell.'

Alcohol consumption is present, including scenes in a speakeasy where characters drink 'giggle water,' and incidental smoking by characters including a goblin and a human.

The film explores mature themes, most notably the emotional and physical abuse of a child, the concept of societal prejudice against 'No-Majs' (non-magical people), and the loss of life caused by the Obscurial parasite.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them runs 133 minutes, directed by David Yates, released in 2016.

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