Parents Guide for
The Water Horse (2007) More at IMDb Pro »

A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage. A man and a woman dance close together and kiss and two children interrupt them. A woman winks and signals to a man to come with her (we do not see anything else). A man talks about a creature being both male and female.

Soldiers are shown setting off bombs that detonate in the water w/the underwater explosions clearly shown. Dead fish that have been caught by fishermen are shown mostly whole but some have started to be "prepared" for consumption. A large deer/elk is killed by hunters and shown laying on the ground, dead (the killing happens off screen). SPOILERS: A bulldog is killed by the water horse (offscreen, implied). Several characters are picked up in the clearly angry water horse's toothy mouth, and flung about. The water horse puposely capsizes a boat filled w/men. The boy's father is killed in the war (off screen).

3 mild obscenities, name-calling (daft beast, spy, coward, deserter), 3 religious exclamations.

A man drinks alcohol from a flask, men and women are shown drinking alcohol at a dinner, men are shown drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes in a pub scene, and a woman smokes a cigarette and drinks alcohol. Two men are shown smoking cigarettes.

There are some intense scenes that may frighten and confuse younger children. After bombs are shot at it, the water horse is angry and lashes out at the people in the film, including the young protagonist who does eventually get the creature to recognize him and treat him as his friend. Being a large, loud, "monster-ish" being, these scenes are scary. There is a part of the film where it appears the protagonist, a young boy, has drowned. The bombing scenes are loud and explicit. Men shoot at the creature w/automatic weapons.