The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: First- or second-graders and up, keeping your child and the following in mind.

What you should know: This was inspired by Max Sendak's popular book and while there is no single scene that will make you want to shield your child's eyes, it's dark overall.

Language: One stronger version of "darn."

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: A boy runs away and sails, through choppy waters, to an island and arrives after nightfall and meets the creatures who live there. Also has a school lesson about the sun burning out some day, snowball and dirt clod fights, destructive tantrums, talk (only) about bashing in brains and the accidental loss of a monster's arm.

Drug or alcohol use: Adults briefly are shown with wine glasses.

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