Fun for me, hell for my 3 year old

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2001)

Had this movie been rated PG-13 as it should have been, I would NEVER have taken my three-year-old to see it. That he had to sit through a scene where a friendly monster, and then later an adorable, sympathetic little girl were strapped into a steel chair with metal cuffs and then basically tortured with a "scream extractor" absolutely enrages me. These filmmakers, who I otherwise admire, failed to follow the very theme of the movie--that laughter is more powerful than screams. It was far scarier for my son that it was funny or fun.