Don't miss it... Remember, this is a story we all know by heart. As many have noted it is a dark movie. Most of the adult generation have grown up seeing violence, real and celluloid, on television. Parents can shield their children as mine tried but kids WILL see it, now if not as soon as they become teens. Rather to show and instruct than to have them scarred as the leave home and experience life when loving guides are left behind. As for the kids, there is more real and implied violence on Saturday cartoons and in the games kids discuss in school when out of "parent shot" than in Alice. I enjoyed it but Avatar and the violence kids saw there is more justified than this -- Avatar is a factor of 5 the better movie.