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Help a lame dad out - what’s the most family friendly Marvel movies?

peppermints

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My son (soon to be 4) and daughter (6) have been super into reading these Spiderman and Avengers story books they got. They know all of the characters now and are obsessed. I never got aboard the comic book superhero train as a kid or recently since the MCU has started. I've seen a handful of the movies but wouldn't call myself a big fan.

They've been bugging me to have a movie night where watch one of the Marvel movies. Are there any that are appropriate for kids that age? Obviously every parent has different opinions on what appropriate is. They've watched Star Wars and are fine with that, but my memory of the MCU movies I've seen is that the action/violence is about on par with Star Wars but the humor is much more on the crude side.

I was thinking maybe Spider-Man Homecoming would be a good one to start with? Or, am I going to have to be the lame dad and say maybe they're too young.

Side note, of course I watched much worse stuff at their age.. so maybe I should lighten up a little. :)
 

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Homecoming has a joke about porn, if that bothers you.

Have they watched into the spiderverse? Big hit with the kids in my family
 
ILikeFeet

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Big Hero 6, I guess. all of them are "family friendly", but if you looking for minimal crude humor, then you're probably skip the live action movies.
 
piratepwnsninja

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We're about to start a MCU watch thru with our almost 5yo. I watched far worse at that age and look at me.

Oh god...
 
Wrexis

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At that age honestly I think the many Marvel cartoon shows are better.

I was going to suggest Ant-Man but then I remembered someone was shrank and stomped on in it...
 
Carthago Delenda Est

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Marvel is pretty tame in general. I'd let a 6yo watch it. 4yo is probably a bit too young but eh. I think most of the crude humor (which is limited) would fly over their heads safely. There's not much killing or anything like that. Overall fairly safe to start anywhere. I'd start with Spiderman (or Into the Spiderverse, but that's not MCU if that matters to you).
 
TheYanger

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I wouldn't think Star Wars is much better than most of the Marvel movies. The best bet is just googling parents guides on imdb for any given movie.

A quick glance confirms what I assumed, which is that both Captain America 1 (though red skull may be way too scary) and Thor 1, though perhaps unexciting movies, are not overtly sexual in any way (all the sex warnings on thor are basically 'he's shirtless and hot')
 
Chopper

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Me and my 5 year old son have just started the Xmen movies, after he became obsessed with Wolverine and Jean Grey via Lego Marvel Superheroes on PS4. The first two have gone down brilliantly. He turned to me at the end of the second one and said "Jean Grey's not dead Daddy. You wait and see". He's awesome.

Having said that, they're pretty violent, and his mum is furious.

Just start at the beginning man. Iron Man's ace.
 
defaltoption

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Into the the spider verse is what I'd start with, see how that goes then go from there.

Tbh though overall I think you're good watching the mcu stuff especially the Spider-Man movies.
 
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peppermints

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Ah forgot to mention they've watched Spiderverse. That movie is so good. Was thinking about live action. Maybe I need to do my due diligence and just watch all of them and judge for myself.
 
LewieP

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I think all the MCU movies are for an older audience than you're looking for. I'd go with animated stuff.
 
Rinse Bassfunk

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peppermints said:
Ah forgot to mention they've watched Spiderverse. That movie is so good. Was thinking about live action. Maybe I need to do my due diligence and just watch all of them and judge for myself.
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That's going to be a better call than anyone else giving you advice here. You know your kids, we don't. 4yo seems young for these films but you are capable of making the judgement. I think there's a few people here forgetting specific scenes, which could be distressing, in films that are largely family friendly.

You know how they will react to violence, death, and jeopardy etc
 
Plasma

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If they're ok watching Star Wars which has a scene with Anakin burning alive on screen I think they'd be alright with the MCU.
 
PrivateWHudson

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For us, something like the Avengers felt more kid friendly than Ironman, just because they were fighting cartoony aliens rather then fighting people. Felt less visceral. And Ironman 1 felt less violent than Winter soldier or Ironman 3. But that was when the kids were 8-10. I'd second Spiderverse for real little ones.
 
TheYanger

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Rinse Bassfunk said:
That's going to be a better call than anyone else giving you advice here. You know your kids, we don't. 4yo seems young for these films but you are capable of making the judgement. I think there's a few people here forgetting specific scenes, which could be distressing, in films that are largely family friendly.

You know how they will react to violence, death, and jeopardy etc
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Yep, I think we probably all can remember weird scenes in movies that were especially scary as a kid that aren't even meant to be so.

I remember Batman 89 had a small scene where Joker electrocutes the guy on the board and leaves a fried skeleton really F'd me up for a few days, and I was like 6 then. I don't think anything in these movies is going to traumatize a kid by any means, but nobody knows them better than you, and almost any of these CAN have some random off moment that might give em little nightmares for a bit.
 
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Sesha

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Parents nowadays are way too overprotective about what kids watch and play. The posts about MCU movies being too scary or violent are just laughable. I watched Jurassic Park when I was 5 and loved it, and even that's super tame compared to what a lot of other people watched when they were that young. There's nothing wrong with kids watching (relatively tame) scary things in a safe environment. I've yet to see any studies about the supposed danger of it.

If you're really that concerned, then go with Big Hero 6 or Into the Spiderverse. Or one of the 90 billion animated series.
 
davepoobond

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Ant Man is probably fine.

but outside of Endgame with a decapitation in the first 5 minutes and Thor Ragnarok with a lot of older humor, most should be fine in my opinion.
 
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Ant-Man, probably

if you go to imdb or just google "parent's guide" for the movies, you'll probably be able to find descriptions of what's in the movies as far as violence, language, etc.
 
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peppermints

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Thanks for the tips and resources. This is the first time either of them has shown an interest in something other than the typical Disney/Pixar stuff or things on Netflix kids so having guides out there is useful.
 
Supercrap

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Lol we were watching iron man 1 with the kids and Tony has a fling with a reporter, theyre in bed half naked my 5 year old ask what they're doing in like uhhh they're having a sleepover
 
Kwigo

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Sesha said:
Parents nowadays are way too overprotective about what kids watch and play. The posts about MCU movies being too scary or violent are just laughable. I watched Jurassic Park when I was 5 and loved it, and even that's super tame compared to what a lot of other people watched when they were that young. There's nothing wrong with kids watching (relatively tame) scary things in a safe environment. I've yet to see any studies about the supposed danger of it.

If you're really that concerned, then go with Big Hero 6 or Into the Spiderverse. Or one of the 90 billion animated series.
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Honestly this.
I'll never tell anyone how to educate their kids or whatever, but it's not like there is gore or sex in the MCU. Some Bugs Bunny cartoons are more violent than most MCU movies tbh.
 
Parthenios

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For sexual content, anything that's not the first two Ironman movies or Guardians of the Galaxy are fine.

I think they're all largely "fine" violence wise, as it's usually cartoon violence (the Hulk movie I remember going too far on that though).
 
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Most of them should be fine for the 6 year old, I might be leery about a few with the 4 year old, but the Ant-Man movies especially the second one should be fine.
 
Violence Jack

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My 3 year old loved Spider-Man Homecoming and I think both Ant-Man movies are mostly harmless. The only ones I'm going to wait on showing him are the more violent or story heavy ones that might not hold his attention. Endgame and Infinity War are definitely waiting until my kid is at least 6 or so.
 
skeptem

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Man, people have some dumb takes honestly. Like, monitoring your kids media these days is parenting 101, and with the amount of violence on display in most action movies, it makes sense to think through it.

" I watched scarier things when I was a kid" is the media equivalent of " my parents hit me and I came out fine".
 
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