Christian Movie Reviews for New Zealand Families
Christian movie guidance that uses New Zealand's own classifications rather than American ones. 445 reviewed films carry a rating from the New Zealand Classification Office, shown next to a suggested age drawn from the film's actual content and the worldview themes worth discussing afterwards.
What New Zealand's classifications actually mean
New Zealand splits restriction into precise ages — R13 and R16 — rather than one broad band, and its labels carry a short descriptive note about why. It is the most granular of the three systems, which makes it useful even to parents outside New Zealand.
| Rating | Name | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| G | General | Suitable for a general audience. |
| PG | Parental Guidance | Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers. |
| M | Mature | Suitable for mature audiences 16 and over, but unrestricted. |
| R13 | Restricted 13 | Restricted to people 13 and over. |
| R16 | Restricted 16 | Restricted to people 16 and over. |
Source: the New Zealand Classification Office. A classification covers content only. LionLens adds the worldview and spiritual questions it does not address.
NZ G — General
Suitable for a general audience. 183 reviewed films carry this rating.
Inside Out
Inside Out is gentle on surface content compared with many family films, but it carries meaningful ideas about identity,...
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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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Frozen
Surface content is generally mild for a family fantasy, with peril, emotional tension, and magical elements. The bigger...
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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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NZ PG — Parental Guidance
Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers. 250 reviewed films carry this rating.
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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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This is a visually imaginative family adventure with mild threat, a little crude or sharp language, and several scenes w...
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NZ M — Mature
Suitable for mature audiences 16 and over, but unrestricted. 8 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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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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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
The main family concern here is not likely to be sexual content or language, but action peril and the Star Wars spiritua...
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Common questions
- What do New Zealand's movie classifications mean for a Christian family?
- New Zealand splits restriction into precise ages — R13 and R16 — rather than one broad band, and its labels carry a short descriptive note about why. It is the most granular of the three systems, which makes it useful even to parents outside New Zealand. 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 445 films rated here.
- Why not just use American ratings?
- Most Christian review sites are written for a US audience, so a New Zealand parent gets a PG-13 their country does not use. LionLens records the NZ classification from the New Zealand Classification Office for every review, next to a suggested age drawn from the film's actual content.