Story

Themes

Superpowers; aliens

Violence

This movie has continuous unrealistic, over-the-top, science fiction action violence, which is presented in a funny way at times. Younger children might copy this violence. For example:

• Ben and alien creatures have several hand-to-hand fights and large battles. Superheroes and villains use their superpowers to punch and kick each other, throw each other through stone walls, shoot each other with laser guns, fire balls and bolts of energy at each other, swing power-enforced broadswords and generate force fields to throw their enemies back.
• A super-villain uses an energy wave to turn the entire population of earth into a robot-like army.
• An alien super-villain causes acid to rain from the skies. The rain dissolves buildings.
• Bombs planted by extortionists destroy large buildings. The bombs leave giant craters behind.
• A super-villain hurls a bolt of energy at a man. The man’s skeleton lights up before he collapses to the ground. He then instantly ages and turns to stone and then ash, which the wind blows away.
• Ben takes the form of an alien and fights a large vicious dog-like creature. He punches it and knocks it to the ground. Ben hits the creature with an energy beam and leaves it lying lifeless on the ground. There is no blood and gore, and the creature is later seen uninjured.

Sexual references

None of concern

Alcohol, drugs and other substances

None of concern

Nudity and sexual activity

None of concern

Product placement

This movie has no product placement of concern. But franchised products including action figures, video games, animated TV shows, accessories and books are marketed to children.

Coarse language

This movie contains some name-calling and put-downs that children might copy.

Ideas to discuss with your children

Ben 10: Omniverse is a children’s animated science fiction action movie targeting children aged 8-12 years. Although the movie has some worthwhile messages, it also has lots of animated action violence. Children who are fans of previous Ben 10 adventures will be entertained by this latest instalment, which has new characters and a new Omnitrix full of surprises.

These are the main messages from this movie:

• It’s hard not to abuse power if you think that doing so might help others or make the world a better place.
• You can achieve more by working as part of a team than by yourself.
• You need to have patience and respect to work with others in a team.

Values in this movie that you could reinforce with your children include the following:

• Responsibility: Ben shows responsibility when he doesn’t misuse his powers to force his own ideas on other people.
• Adaptability: although he doesn’t want to take on a new partner, Ben adapts to the situation. You could talk about how adapting to unwanted change and new situations can make us stronger.