The filmmakers should be ashamed.

Rating: 3/10 (25 November 2005)

I suppose making a film strictly for the 12-14 crowd is fine, but then how can you justify including such disturbing imagery? An adult certainly won't enjoy it; there's no plot as such, and anyone with an attention span of more than a few minutes will be dreadfully disappointed.
My neighbor's eight-year-old was tremendously anticipating it, but I had to recommend in the strongest possible terms that, if they didn't want her to have nightmares for a month, that they keep her away from it. And here's the rub: A lot of parents won't think twice, and they really should. If you have a child who can take this sort of thing in their stride, you should be spending your money on child psychologists, not film tickets. You'd have to be as desensitized as an Eritrean child soldier not to freak out. The filmmakers should be ashamed. Go see March of the Penguins again, instead.