I was amazed and extremely concerned by the makeup of the audience at the 10.30am session.

The movie has a PG-13 rating; however, the majority of the audience were extremely young children, many not yet of school age.

Certainly they were accompanied by parents, grandparents or carers, but it seemed these people were unaware of the meaning of a PG-13 rating, didn’t care about the effect it could have on the children.

Or, perhaps they just dragged the children along so that they, the carers, could see the film.

Responsible adults should understand, or if not research, that this film was awarded a PG-13 rating for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, language and some crude references.

If these adults read the Parents Guide they would see that: “The violence in the movie is more intense than any previous Marvel movie, plenty of brutal beatings, stabbings, choking and heavy hitting”. 

This film ran for almost two and a half hours, far too long, given the content, to interest many of the younger children who were under school age.

However, this left them with time on their hands to fill with activities such as changing seats, chattering and grizzling, thus distracting and annoying other people who had paid to watch the film in its entirety.

There was an endless stream of patrons heading to the toilets throughout the session, the older youths leaping down the stairs, the younger ones constantly climbing over people with their carers for the great escape.

So the reason for this letter is to ask parents to understand the rating before they take young children to see a film, consider the emotional effects it can have on their children, and at the same time think of what discomfort their actions, or inactions, cause other people.  

Carolyn Clancy, Goulburn