Abominable Christian Movie Review (2019)

Guidance: Talk Together

Abominable is a warm animated adventure about grief, family, and helping a vulnerable creature get home. Most concerns come from fantasy magic tied to the yeti, chase-and-capture peril, and a worldview shaped more by wonder and inner healing than by Christian hope in Jesus Christ.

Why This Guidance Level

This lands in a middle range for many Christian families because the surface content is fairly gentle, but the film does include repeated fantasy magic, moments of pursuit and capture, and a healing-through-mystical-power tone that may be worth talking through. Its strongest material is emotional rather than graphic: grief over a father’s death, family strain, and the question of where comfort and hope come from.

Faith & Worldview Perspective

The film reflects real virtues like compassion, courage, loyalty, and family care. It also treats the yeti’s supernatural abilities as beautiful and benevolent, which keeps the tone light but still places wonder, healing, and guidance in a magical framework outside a Christian understanding of God’s power. Parents may want to discuss the difference between enjoying fantasy storytelling and placing real hope in Jesus Christ, who alone is our true comfort and Savior.

Truths Reflected

• The story honors family bonds, sacrificial friendship, and protecting the vulnerable.
• It takes grief seriously and shows that love, patience, and presence matter when someone is hurting.

Tensions to Discuss

• The film uses supernatural power and mystical wonder as a source of help and healing, which may blur categories for children if left unexplained.
• Comfort after loss leans toward emotional and magical restoration rather than pointing to lasting hope in Christ.

Content & Discernment Markers

Occult & Spiritual Content

• Fantasy and supernatural elements are central to the story through the yeti and his extraordinary powers. The creature is linked with myth and wonder, and his abilities are presented as beautiful, helpful, and emotionally healing rather than dark. Parents may want to discuss the difference between fantasy magic in a story and the real hope and power that belong to God alone.

Sexuality & Relationships

• Romantic content is light. There is mild flirting around Jin, comments about dating, and a few teen social moments, but nothing sexually explicit stands out.

Identity Themes

• The story focuses more on grief, family roles, and personal responsibility than on modern identity messaging. Yi’s struggle is about loss, distance from family, and learning to reconnect.

Violence & Intensity

• The opening and pursuit scenes include alarms, men trying to capture the yeti, commands like “Stay back!” and “Get him!,” and later pressure from Mr. Burnish to send every car after the creature. The threat is mostly adventure-style, but younger children may still feel the tension.
• The story includes capture-and-pursuit material involving the yeti and children, with the sense that powerful adults want to control or exploit the creature. Parents may want to talk about courage, wise risk, and protecting others without acting recklessly.

Language & Humour

• Language is mild and mostly comes through teasing and put-downs. Characters joke that someone “slept in a dumpster,” say “What on earth,” and begin “What in the…” before trailing off. Humour also includes smell jokes and light insults between kids and cousins.

Other Content Notes

• Grief is a meaningful part of the story. Yi’s family directly says, “She misses her dad. We all do,” and Yi recalls, “My dad used to play for me. It always made me feel better.” These moments may open good conversations about sorrow, memory, and where lasting comfort is found.
• Family tension appears in realistic ways as Yi avoids home, stays busy, and resists talking about her pain. Her mother and grandmother urge her to eat with the family and reconnect, which gives the film a strong intergenerational family thread.

Notable Moments

• Family grief named: Yi’s family openly connects her withdrawal to the death of her father.

  “She misses her dad. We all do.”

• Music as comfort: Yi tries to calm the frightened creature by remembering what her father did for her.

  “My dad used to play for me. It always made me feel better.”

• Mythic creature revealed: Yi realizes the creature on her roof is not just an animal but a legendary being.

  “There’s a Yeti on my roof.”

• Capture pressure: The antagonist pushes his team to recover the escaped creature with urgency and intimidation.

  “Captain, I am holding you personally responsible for that abominable creature’s escape.”

Discussion Prompts

• Grief and comfort: Yi misses her dad deeply. When people are hurting, what kinds of comfort help for a moment, and what kind of hope lasts?
  • Biblical guidance: The film shows music and friendship bringing comfort, which is real, but Christian hope goes deeper because God is near to the brokenhearted and our lasting hope is in Jesus Christ.
  • Scripture: Psalm 34:18, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
• Fantasy power and real spiritual truth: What makes the yeti’s powers feel beautiful in the story? How is storybook magic different from the way Christians understand God’s power?
  • Biblical guidance: Fantasy can stir imagination, but parents may want to remind children that true power, healing, and guidance belong to God, not to mystical forces.
  • Scripture: Deuteronomy 18:10-12, James 1:17, Colossians 1:16-17
• Family, patience, and responsibility: Why do you think Yi keeps staying busy instead of talking with her family? What does loving family look like when someone is hurting?
  • Biblical guidance: The film values family care and patience. Scripture also calls families to bear with one another in love and to honor one another with gentleness.
  • Scripture: Ephesians 4:2, Romans 12:10, Exodus 20:12
• Protecting the vulnerable: Why does Yi help Everest even when it costs her something? How can courage and compassion work together with wisdom?
  • Biblical guidance: The story reflects the good impulse to protect the weak. Christians can connect that instinct to loving our neighbor while also acting with wisdom and truth.
  • Scripture: Proverbs 3:21, Luke 10:27, Philippians 2:4