What age is Porco Rosso appropriate for?

8 alone, 7 with a parent; 8 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Porco Rosso not recommended under 8?

What's in it: our reading; a hero who smokes, constantly; dogfights, guns, and no blood; friends who did not come back; sharp tongues, light touch. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Porco Rosso: what age is it for? 8 alone, 7 with a parent

8 alone, 7 with a parent.

Movie · 1992 · 1 h 33 · animation, adventure, fantasy

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

The official US rating is PG; we never go below it, and here we go above: 8. Alone from 8; from 7, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

The sweet spot: around 11-13, the age when you understand the pig is a man in hiding, and that this is what the film is about. Why a sweet spot?

Official US rating: PG; zinema says 8. In France, zinema would say 8.

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What it's about

In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.

Why 8

Our readingFourteen slightly sharp words in an hour and a half, and not a drop of blood: language is not what matters here. What matters is that the hero smokes in nearly every shot and that it is part of his charm, and that beneath the adventure there is a man hiding because his friends died and he did not. You can fly with him at eight, the rest can wait.
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A hero who smokes, constantlyMarco has a cigarette in hand or mouth through much of the film, and it is drawn as part of his weary charm rather than as a problem. Wine and drinks also flow freely in the hotel scenes. Young viewers will read it as cool before they read it as anything else, so it is worth a word.
Dogfights, guns, and no bloodPlanes chase each other, machine guns rattle, and there is a long fistfight near the end. It stays cartoonish and nobody is shown bleeding; the few wounds and the one big explosion pass quickly.
Friends who did not come backDeaths from the war are spoken of, never shown, and one dreamlike passage in the sky explains quietly why Marco keeps his distance from people. It is the sad heart of the film, and a child may need you to put words to it.
Sharp tongues, light touchThe dubbed dialogue has a handful of coarse words and plenty of name calling between rivals, the way pilots needle each other. It is banter, not cruelty, and it passes fast.

What the movie brings

A hero judged by what he does, not by the face he wears.
Two strong women, one a teenage engineer, who are never treated as decoration.
A gentle look at how war leaves people quiet years afterward.

Watching it together

Before

Before it starts, you might say that the cigarette never leaves his mouth because he is sad, not because it is cool.

After

at 8 and up

Why do you think Marco chose to look like a pig instead of a man?

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