The Tiny Kingdom

I just received this dvd in the mail. When I saw the advertising insert for movies I would never let my kids watch, (or even watch such stuff myself), I had doubts about the dvd, even though the cover looks like a childrens movie. I came here to read the reviews and will not be watching this movie.I believe the cover art constitutes deceptive advertising.I wish I had read the reviews before ordering-will do so in the future.

Like so many movies we watched when we were younger we found it wasn't like we remembered. We figured if we had liked it our grandchildren would like it but after watching it again we figured that removing peoples eyes and having them walk about town with whistles would be too much for our young grandchildren to handle. It gets 3 stars for good adult political satire.

I watched it hoping it would get better. I was not impressed and had a hard time finishing the movie. I would not recommend this to anyone. It was ok but nothing to get excited about.

My eleven year old daughter picked this from the redbox thinking it might be a good movie. Where do I start? The teen sister "likes hurting" her baby brother and when he asks her why she likes to hurt him, she says "I don't know, I just get angry sometimes, being a teenager is hard." Seriously? The older brother is a coarse, self-absorbed apathetic, not caring if his younger brother is hurt in front of him, and the youngest brother is a pathological liar. The entire movie is about parents leaving their kids alone for some unknown time period. A creepy man stalking the older boy through the street, a kingdom where people are stamped with an ID number on their arm (as in Nazi era) and are surgically mutilated so that they will do a job they are assigned. "Perfection" is a man being cut up and dog jaws inserted into his mouth and then placed on a leash to track other human beings, another man being mutilated and having his eyes and mouth sewn shut... many people having their eyes removed, and the "leader" choosing to have part of his brain removed so that he could act without compassion or caring. This is a very disturbing movie that no young child should be exposed to, EVER. Whoever rated it G are perverse and evil people who should NEVER be allowed near young children. In fact, the makers of this movie clearly have some really sick ideas of what young children should experience.

We actually watched this from start to finish with my kids. It was unbelievably bad. And yes, very creepy characters like eyeless people and "dogs" that are really mutated people. But aside from the creep factor, EVERYTHING about this movie is terrible. The acting, the story, the script, the special effects. Even the music and how it's used is awful. The story does not make sense and has countless holes of logic in it. Why the heck Redbox is including this in it's limited offering is beyond me. They must have signed a deal with the devil. Don't be fooled by the quaint description of A Tiny Kingdom. It sucks in a massive way.

The people who made this movie must not have small children. Many of the topics are inappropriate and the imagery is too visceral. I wish I'd checked these reviews before renting because I agree with all of them.And besides finding the content deplorable, the production values are lame. Feels like it was filmed 30 years ago, and even then it would have sucked.

I concur with other reviewers this movie is definitely not for kids. Not sure who this movie would appeal to either because its not scary in a good way. It has disturbing looking characters but looks like one of those cheesy 80's movies with cheap sets and low budget. But that was the first 15 minutes of the movie, I had to turn it off. It scared my children and it was just too silly to keep watching.

Kids and Family???? NO WAY. Only if your last name is Munster. Do NOT let any child watch this movie. Within 15 minutes a toothless transient-looking Peeping Tom scares the teenage boy that was first shrunk and transported to the Tiny Kingdom. Then the teenager goes into the town and approaches a woman standing with her back to him. When "she" turns around, she has no eyes or eyebrows, only a whistle in her mouth. Other eyeless characters start blowing their whistles. THAT IS WHEN I TURNED IT OFF. It scared my 8 year old. I could not get to the OFF button fast enough.Ridiculous Movie. Have no idea what is in the rest of it or how it all played out, but I could care less. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS MOVIE. IT WOULD ONLY BE APPROPRIATE TO ALLOW TEENS TO WATCH. If I could have rated this one ZERO stars I would do so!!!!!!!!!!!!1