The Fault In Our Stars-Kids Movie Reviews

There’s nothing like young love!!! It feels like the sun is always shinning and you’re overwhelmed with joy. However with teenager’s Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) it’s not that simple. Though they are madly in love, they’re both suffering from a life-threatening disease…cancer. The young couple meet at a cancer support group and it’s love at first sight. With their upbeat attitude and love for one another they learn to cope with their fatal disease and make the best of a horrible situation. The Fault In Our Stars, based on a best-selling young adult novel, is a comedy and a heartbreaking love story, one that will appeal to teenagers, especially girls!

Rating: 3 and 1/2 out of 5 buckets
Release Date: September 16, 2014
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 13+
Sexual Content: Moderate
Violent Content: Mild
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
Drugs and Alcohol: Moderate
Will it Appeal to kids/teens? Yes

Talking Points:

Hazel and Gus go through a lot ups and downs, however they make the most of what they have and find joy in their lives. Great parent/child discussion.

While the subject matter is intense, the film is also funny with likeable characters.

Sexual Content: Moderate

• We see a teenage couple kissing in a parking lot and the boy squeezes the girl’s breast.

• Hazel (17) and Gus (18) have a sexual encounter. They passionately kiss in bed while taking off their shirts and her bra. We don’t see them naked, as they’re covered by the sheets.

Violent Content: Mild

• Gus’s friend Isaac throws some of Gus’s sport’s trophies against a wall and demolishes them in a fit of anger.

Crude or Profane Language: Moderate

• The f-word is said once, we also hear “a–,” “b–tard,” “h—,” “b–ch,” and “d-mn.”

Drugs and Alcohol: Moderate

• Gus continuously puts an unlit cigarette in his mouth…he claims it’s a metaphor.
• In Amsterdam, where the drinking age is 16, Gus and Hazel drink champagne at a fancy restaurant.
• One of the  characters is an alcoholic, we see him continuously drinking out of a flask.

Will it Appeal to kids/teens? Yes

The theater was filled with pre-teen and teenage girls. I interviewed a group of girls from Northern Hills Middle School,  who all  loved it. Some comments were:

• ” There’s enough boom boom boom, this was a touching , but sad love story.
• “It was so real.”

Overall this was a wonderful, though sad, teenage romance. Parents need to be aware of the moderate sexual content. Depending on the child, I recommend this for kids ages 13 and up.

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