Christian Movie Reviews for Australian Families
Christian movie guidance that uses Australia's own classifications rather than American ones. 395 reviewed films carry a rating from the Australian Classification Board, shown next to a suggested age drawn from the film's actual content and the worldview themes worth discussing afterwards.
What Australia's classifications actually mean
Australia's M is advisory, not restrictive — a child of any age may legally watch an M film. That surprises parents used to the US system, where the nearest equivalent sounds firmer than it is. MA 15+ is the first genuinely restricted band.
| Rating | Name | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| G | General | Suitable for everyone, though not necessarily aimed at children. |
| PG | Parental Guidance | May contain material a child finds confusing or upsetting. Guidance recommended under 15. |
| M | Mature | Recommended for 15 and over, but legally unrestricted. Anyone may watch. |
| MA 15+ | Mature Accompanied | Restricted. Under 15s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. |
Source: the Australian Classification Board. A classification covers content only. LionLens adds the worldview and spiritual questions it does not address.
AU G — General
Suitable for everyone, though not necessarily aimed at children. 174 reviewed films carry this rating.
Finding Nemo
This is a warm, funny family film with strong themes of parental love and perseverance, but it also includes an intense...
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WALL·E
WALL·E is very light in surface content, but it carries clear messages about consumerism, environmental neglect, and pas...
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Toy Story
This is a warm, funny family film with mild peril, a little insulting language, and strong themes of friendship and loya...
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Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. is a warm, funny family film with mild comic peril and a few rude lines, but its monster-under-the-bed pr...
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The Lion King
This animated classic carries strong themes of responsibility, leadership, and the consequences of envy, but it also inc...
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Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 is warm, funny, and emotionally rich, but it is also more intense than many family films in its age range. P...
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Toy Story 2
This is a warm, funny family adventure with mild peril and very light language, but its strongest material is emotional...
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Ice Age
This family adventure is funny and warmhearted, but it also includes repeated peril, revenge talk, and a few sad moments...
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AU PG — Parental Guidance
May contain material a child finds confusing or upsetting. Guidance recommended under 15. 208 reviewed films carry this rating.
Up
This is a warm, imaginative family film, but it carries more emotional weight and peril than some parents may expect fro...
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Coco
Coco is a warm, emotionally rich family film about love, memory, and family loyalty, but it is built around Día de los M...
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Shrek
Shrek is lighter in surface content than many family adventures, but it includes comic peril, crude humor, mild coarse l...
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The Incredibles
The film has strong family themes and a generally positive moral center, but it also includes sustained superhero violen...
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Spirited Away
This is a beautifully made fantasy, but its spirit-world setting, sorcery, and unsettling creatures give it more weight...
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Zootopia
This animated story is upbeat and often funny, but it deals directly with prejudice, fear, and social labeling. Most con...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
This animated superhero story carries strong themes of responsibility, courage, family love, and perseverance, but it al...
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Big Hero 6
This is a warm, energetic family adventure with appealing humor and strong themes of care, intelligence, and family loya...
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AU M — Mature
Recommended for 15 and over, but legally unrestricted. Anyone may watch. 9 reviewed films carry this rating.
Mulan
This live-action Mulan leans more intense than many family adventure films, with repeated battle talk, threats to kill,...
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My Spy
This is a breezy spy comedy, but it carries more action violence, threat, and coarse language than some families expect...
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
This is a serious fantasy war story with clear tension around violence, revenge, and political ambition. For Christian f...
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Iron Mask
This is a fantasy adventure with prison cruelty, threats, coarse insults, and a steady stream of magical folklore. For C...
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Minions & More Volume 1
For most families, the main considerations are cartoon chaos, mild peril, and the usual mischievous Minions-style humor....
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Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
This anime mixes heartfelt friendship and perseverance with virtual-world action, family strain, and supernatural fantas...
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Tourist Family
This is a family-centered drama with moderate emotional weight, some threat-based peril, and occasional coarse or harsh...
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Shabab Albomb 3
Parents are likely to notice that the main concern here is not crude content but the film's dark subject matter. Child k...
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AU MA 15+ — Mature Accompanied
Restricted. Under 15s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. 2 reviewed films carry this rating.
Bean
This is a light comedy on the surface, but it carries enough crude humor, sexual jokes, and peril to merit parent conver...
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Banana
For most families, the main issue here is brief cartoon conflict played for laughs. The better conversation is less abou...
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Common questions
- What do Australia's movie classifications mean for a Christian family?
- Australia's M is advisory, not restrictive — a child of any age may legally watch an M film. That surprises parents used to the US system, where the nearest equivalent sounds firmer than it is. MA 15+ is the first genuinely restricted band. A classification tells you what a government body judged about content; it says nothing about worldview, spiritual themes or moral framing, which is what LionLens adds alongside it for all 395 films rated here.
- Why not just use American ratings?
- Most Christian review sites are written for a US audience, so a Australian parent gets a PG-13 their country does not use. LionLens records the AU classification from the Australian Classification Board for every review, next to a suggested age drawn from the film's actual content.