Our family of 2 adults & a 14 & 12 year old went to see this movie. It was a delightful, thought provoking movie. I will agree that young children may not enjoy it because it uses the old formal language more of Dicken's day and may just bore them because it's not jam packed w/ typical Carrey zaniness, but I highly doubt it's too scary...there were young children in our theater and NONE cried or left as others stated. The digital 3D experience was nothing less than incredible!