Warhorse One Parents Guide (2024)

FAQs

Is WARHORSE ONE ok for kids? ›

MPAA. Rated R for violence and some language.

That said, WARHORSE ONE is marred by some strong foul language, including eight “f” words and very strong war violence with multiple gun battles.

Common Sense Media Reviewers

Budget war movie has violence, death, occasional language.

Sentimental, tear-jerker... family film if your family is over 11 years old. The majority of the film still takes place in the middle of World War I. It possesses the Spielberg sentimentality, along with a well written script and well acted from a series of top quality performers.

The film is about Richard, code name Warhorse One killing as many people as possible to save one American life because we value life more than they do. The theme is semi-religious in that things happen for a reason.

Parents need to know that Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the English children's book and hit Broadway show, War Horse, depicts war in a realistic manner that's too intense for younger kids. Despite being an earnest, sentimental horse drama, the war sequences show soldiers being killed in action …

Profanity (1)

Characters say "bastard" and "hell" twice each, along with British crudities "bloody" (two or three times), "bugger" (at least four times) and "git" (once).

It's pretty good, it's entertaining, there are some tense scenes. It's not the best war film out there, but it's ok for a non-war-knowledgeable human.

The Sunday Times points out: "The star of Spielberg's film [War Horse] is fictional. The horse, Warrior, remains the true equine hero of 1914-1918.”

A gunned down Navy SEAL Master Chief must guide a child to safety through a gauntlet of hostile Taliban insurgents and survive the brutal Afghanistan wilderness.

Who is the little girl in Warhorse One? ›

Athena Durner plays Zoe, a child of five who becomes “the objective” in this lumbering, first-person-shooter thriller about a sole surviving “frogman” trying to get this one child chased by scores of glowering, murderous Taliban to a constantly-delayed exfil point.

Warhorse One (2023) is 2 hr 5 min long.

Although it is a work of fiction, War Horse has shown the deep bond between man and beast as well as how everyone suffers during war – not just humans but also animals.

If you are talking warhorses of the medieval time, the truth is that the horse's gender didn't matter. While there were those who spoke loudly on the stallion versus mare choice the truth was very simple: What was most important was finding a horse with the personality that was suited for a war horse.

Some kids might handle the violence like me but it has too much sexual content. This title has: Too much violence.

War Horse is suitable for theatregoers aged 10 and older.

We would recommend this moving book to children aged 6-9 years. It tells of an enduring friendship between a boy and his horse, which is touching and will appeal to animal lovers, but this book also helps children to understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War in an appropriate way.

For all you people who've been asking me (and members of the War Horsecast and creative team) if you can bring your kids to see the show, here's the official response: War Horse is generally appropriate for children ages 10 and above.