My family and I watched this without looking at reviews or anything, thinking a Famous Five movie done by the BBC would "obviously" be appropriate for kids, and would surely be good.
We couldn't have been more shockingly wrong. From the very beginning the movie had a creepy, disconcerting vibe to it. George encounters an unfamilar boat, boards it and finds diving equipment attached to an air line going into the sea, so she starts pulling on it, and up comes a frayed end - the obvious conclusion being that something terrible has happened to the diver. But she seems totally unfazed, and adopts the owner's dog (Timmy) without mentioning the man to anyone.
Later, she finds the dead body and seems similarly unbothered, until she brings her cousins to "see a dead body" and starts poking it, at which point one of them suggests they should tell somebody.
Not long after that we all agreed that we didn't want to see more, but my 8-year-old son who is normally not bothered much by scary things was very disturbed at bed time for the following two nights, because he was just so creeped out by the whole thing.
I would highly recommend giving it a miss, especially if you have kids under about 16.
We couldn't have been more shockingly wrong. From the very beginning the movie had a creepy, disconcerting vibe to it. George encounters an unfamilar boat, boards it and finds diving equipment attached to an air line going into the sea, so she starts pulling on it, and up comes a frayed end - the obvious conclusion being that something terrible has happened to the diver. But she seems totally unfazed, and adopts the owner's dog (Timmy) without mentioning the man to anyone.
Later, she finds the dead body and seems similarly unbothered, until she brings her cousins to "see a dead body" and starts poking it, at which point one of them suggests they should tell somebody.
Not long after that we all agreed that we didn't want to see more, but my 8-year-old son who is normally not bothered much by scary things was very disturbed at bed time for the following two nights, because he was just so creeped out by the whole thing.
I would highly recommend giving it a miss, especially if you have kids under about 16.