What age is Thor: Ragnarok appropriate for?

Rated PG-13 in the US. 13, alone or with a parent; 11 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Thor: Ragnarok not recommended under 13?

What's in it: the official rating, first; an army impaled, an eye torn out; creatures and a fire giant; nineteen swear words and a naked Hulk. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Thor: Ragnarok: what age is it for? 13, alone or with a parent

From 13, alone or with a parent.

Movie · 2017 · 2 h 10 · action, science fiction, comedy, adventure

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

The official US rating is PG-13, and we never go below it. Alone from 13, and not before, even with an adult.

The sweet spot: around 13, when you know Thor and can laugh at a goddess who kills an army in a minute. Why a sweet spot?

Official US rating: PG-13. In France, zinema would say 11.

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What it's about

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.

Why 13

The official rating, firstRated PG-13 in the US (parents strongly cautioned, some material may be inappropriate for children under 13). zinema never goes below the country's rating: it explains it.
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An army impaled, an eye torn outHela kills the whole army of Asgard in a minute with blades, tears out one of Thor's eyes, kills the warriors one by one; Odin dies on a cliff; gladiators killed in an arena. Asgard destroyed with its people, told as a rebirth. Little blood.
Creatures and a fire giantSurtur the fire demon, a giant wolf, a growling Hulk, a junk planet; two hundred and sixty screaming faces in the fights. Everything is played for laughs.
Nineteen swear words and a naked HulkSwearing, Hulk from behind getting out of a bath; nothing sexual.

What the movie brings

The funniest Marvel: Thor as a comedy, with a director who plays a pile of rocks.
A god who loses his hammer and discovers he never needed it.
Asgard that is not a place but a people: the ending says it simply.

Watching it together

Before

Nothing hard; the torn-out eye passes quickly. A ten-year-old will follow everything with you.

After

at 13 and up

Thor destroys Asgard to save the Asgardians: what matters more, a place or the people who live there?

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A zinema reading from September 21, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made