Smallfoot Christian Movie Review (2018)

Guidance: Talk Together

This animated adventure centers on a Yeti whose beliefs are shaken when he encounters a human. The main discernment issue for Christian families is less surface content and more how the story handles truth, authority, and what happens when a community’s shared beliefs are challenged.

Why This Guidance Level

The available picture suggests a family-friendly animated film with the main concern coming from worldview themes rather than explicit content. Parents may want to be ready to talk about how truth is discovered, how authority should be tested, and how Christians look for wisdom under the lordship of Jesus Christ rather than simply trusting either tradition or personal experience alone.

Faith & Worldview Perspective

The story’s central tension is a clash between accepted community beliefs and a disruptive new discovery. That can open a useful conversation, because Scripture does call people to love truth and reject falsehood, but it also warns against pride, fear, and trusting human systems as ultimate. What may need discussion is whether the film treats truth as something grounded in reality and moral responsibility, or mainly as a tool for self-definition and social upheaval. Parents may want to discuss how Christians test claims carefully and place final hope in Jesus Christ, who is the truth, rather than in group pressure or personal certainty alone.

Truths Reflected

• People sometimes need courage to speak truth when a group resists it.
• Discovering something unfamiliar can expose fear, pride, or false assumptions.

Tensions to Discuss

• If the film treats authority as suspect simply because it is authority, that may conflict with a biblical view that authority can be misused but is not wrong by itself.
• If truth is framed mainly as personal discovery without reference to moral accountability, a Christian parent may want to discuss why truth is ultimately grounded in God.

Content & Discernment Markers

Occult & Spiritual Content

• Occult material does not stand out here from what is known. The main tension is social belief and discovery rather than magic, spellcasting, or spiritual practice outside the Christian faith.

Sexuality & Relationships

• Sexual content is not a notable issue in this film based on the available picture of the story.

Identity Themes

• The core identity pressure seems to come from belonging to a community with fixed beliefs and then facing evidence that challenges them. For Christian families, this matters because children may need help distinguishing healthy humility and truth-seeking from rebellion for its own sake. Parents may want to discuss how our deepest identity is received from God, not from group approval.

Violence & Intensity

• As an animated comedy adventure, the film may include light peril tied to the Yeti-human encounter and the upheaval that follows, but nothing currently suggests violence is one of the main concerns for families.

Language & Humour

• No notable profanity or coarse humor stands out from the the film. The most obvious recurring term is the playful label “smallfoot,” used for the human outsider.

Other Content Notes

• The film’s main plot turns on a Yeti discovering a human, and that discovery throws his world into confusion. This matters for Christian families because the story likely asks whether long-held beliefs should be trusted, challenged, or re-examined. Parents may want to discuss how Christians pursue truth with both humility and discernment.

Notable Moments

• Worldview upheaval: A Yeti encounters a human, and that discovery overturns what he and his community believe about the world.

Discussion Prompts

• Testing what a group believes: If everyone around you believed something that turned out to be wrong, how should you respond with both courage and humility?
  • Biblical guidance: Christians are called to test claims carefully and hold fast to what is true.
  • Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Acts 17:11
• Truth and authority: When leaders or traditions are challenged, how can we tell the difference between wise correction and disrespectful rebellion?
  • Biblical guidance: Scripture teaches respect for authority while also recognizing that human authority must submit to God’s truth.
  • Scripture: Romans 13:1, Ephesians 6:1-3, Acts 5:29
• Fear of the unfamiliar: Why do people sometimes fear what they do not understand, and how should followers of Jesus respond to someone different from them?
  • Biblical guidance: God calls His people to act with truth, love, and neighborly care rather than fear-driven judgment.
  • Scripture: Mark 12:31, 2 Timothy 1:7
• Where truth is grounded: Is truth just whatever feels new or freeing, or does truth come from something bigger than us?
  • Biblical guidance: Christian hope rests in Jesus Christ, who identifies Himself as the truth and calls us to walk in the light.
  • Scripture: John 14:6, John 8:31-32