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  Parental guidance to 8 (Scary scenes, Viol. Theme)
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  Children under 8 | Parental guidance due to some scary scenes, violence and theme. |
  Children over the age of 8 | Most children over 8 should be okay to see this movie with or without parental guidance |
  This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.
  Name of movie: | Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause |
  Classification: | G |
  Consumer advice lines: | None |
  Length: | 92 minutes |
  This review of the movie contains the following information:
  Mrs Claus (Elizabeth Mitchell) is about to give birth and it’s almost Christmas time, a very busy time of course for Santa (Tim Allen). Carol Claus is also emotional at the prospect of becoming a mother and misses her family. Santa is under a lot of pressure and devises a ruse for bringing her parents to the North Pole by disguising it as Canada and thus not breaking any Santa secrets. To add to Santa’s troubles, an emergency meeting is held by the Council of Legendary Figures to discuss what to do with Jack Frost (Martin Short) who has been unashamedly promoting himself and trying to upstage Santa. The Council wants to expel him but he begs for another chance and Santa takes him on as an additional helper.
  The dastardly Jack Frost however, has ambitious plans and sets out to sabotage Santa’s efforts to get presents ready in time for Christmas. He discovers that there is an escape clause to being Santa and tricks the overstressed Santa into invoking it. Jack Frost assumes the role of Santa and turns the North Pole into a ghastly theme park. Meanwhile the real Santa, who has returned to a miserable life as Scott Calvin, has to devise a way of putting things back the way they were.
  Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
  Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
  Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
  There is some violence in this movie including:
  Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
  In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:
  Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
  Children in this age group may also be disburbed by the above-mentioned scenes.
  Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
  The apparent family breakdown between Scott (Santa) and his son Charlie could concern some children in this age group.
  Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.
  It is unlikely that anything in this movie would scare or disturb children over the age of thirteen.
  None of concern.
  The main messages from Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause are that good eventually wins over evil and that pride comes before a fall.
  Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
  This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children the importance of spending time together as a family.
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