The Witches: parents' guide

The Grand High Witch zaps a dissenting witch to charcoal, and a baby's carriage rolls down a hill before a rescue. A cat swipes at the mouse boys, Luke's tail is chopped off and bleeds, and the witch-mice are killed, one with a cleaver.

Very mild: 'bloody,' 'oh my God' and 'oh Lord,' plus insults like 'blithering idiot.' Common Sense lists no profanity and Movieguide counts one. There are no s-words or f-words.

The hotel manager and his girlfriend, one of the hotel maids, share a kiss. Separately, Luke is briefly seen from behind running naked through a house, a non-sexual moment. There is no other sexual content.

Luke's grandmother Helga smokes cigars. The witches drink wine at their convention, and other characters celebrate with whiskey and champagne. Nobody gets drunk and there is no drug use.

The witches' unmasking, showing bald heads, clawed hands and monstrous true faces, is genuinely frightening, as is the transformation of boys into mice. A girl trapped forever in a painting slowly ages and vanishes, and children are hunted and chased.