Overall A-. Release date July 17, Violence B-. Sexual Content A-. Profanity A-. Run Time: 96 minutes Official Movie Site. Get Content Details. The Guide to our Grades. About author. Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for over 15 years. As a parent herself, she believes parents play a powerful role in teaching media literacy in their homes.
Sexual Content: Brief veiled sexual comments are used. Language: The script includes some name-calling and mean-spirited comments. Page last updated July 17, A crow grabs a snail from a crowd of snails. A boy purposely rolls over a bug, crushing it with a three-wheeler, laughing manically.
A boy on a three-wheeler barrels toward a snail, and the snail avoids the boy multiple times by zipping out of the way; the boy pins the snail against a wall, the snail drops on top of the front wheel and quickly spins the wheel around, knocking the boy backwards and off his three-wheeler; the boy runs toward his house, and then hits his head on the door knob before crying and racing into the house.
A snail tries to crawl toward a tomato as a lawnmower approaches it and we see a group of snails watching in horror as the lawnmower comes extremely close to crushing the tomato and the snail before they turn on a hose, blowing the snail out of the path of the lawnmower at the last moment; we see the tomato smashed in the lawnmower with flecks and tomato spray implied to look like what would have been blood if the snail had been crushed.
A snail smashes against the walls of an overturned glass, trapped; the snail knocks the glass to the ground, it shatters and the snail crawls away and down an open window as the boy tries to grab it; the snail leaps onto a floating balloon, only to be grabbed by a crow, and the crow drops the snail to safety after the snail "smacks" the crow with its eyeball the snail is unharmed.
A man driving a racecar forces a snail to zoom over debris on the shoulder of a racetrack and the snail goes over the debris unharmed as the debris whips past him; the car driver then tries to smash the snail against a wall, placing it between the track wall and the man's car the snail is unharmed.
A snail appears to be having a panic attack as it races along a crowded racetrack and cars zoom past, knocking the snail under their tires and against a wall; the snail has exhaust coughed into its face and we see it almost smashed as two cars' wheels swerve toward one another.
A snail watches cars race along a busy highway and a semi truck speeds past the snail; the force knocks the snail off an overpass and onto the highway below where it bounces off a series of cars, narrowly avoiding being hit and lands safely on a parked car's intake; the car starts and sucks the snail safely into the intake valve we see the snail covered, unharmed, with N20 as it exits the exhaust pipe of the car.
A snail jumps on the handles of a three-wheeler racing toward a garden filled with other snails; the three-wheeler smashes through the garden and tips over we see snails displaced and tomatoes smashed, but no snail is harmed.
Several snails see a boy approaching them rapidly, they shout "shell crusher" and one of the snails instructs the others to "tuck and roll" to safety; the boy rolls away on a three wheeler, leaving the snails unharmed.
A bus zooms along a street, narrowly avoiding hitting a snail twice; the snail pops into its shell to avoid being run over. Two security guards grab a man and carry him out of a building, shoving him away.
A snail bites a man's hand and he shakes his hand in pain we see no blood. A snail knocks a man backwards with the force of him zooming toward the man the man in unharmed. Stands out for positive messages. Educational Value. Positive Messages. Positive Role Models. Sexy Stuff. In one scene, adults seem to be drinking bottled beer with their meals. What parents need to know Parents need to know that Turbo is a funny animated underdog comedy with strong positive messages.
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User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Parent of a 5-year-old Written by carobear July 29, Continue reading. Report this review. Parent of a 8-year-old Written by Babbit July 20, It's a kids movie afterall TURBO is actually a kids movie, for kids, with a happy ending, a positive message, and limited scares not sure the crows would rank as scary. It's a simp Kid, 8 years old July 13, Awful,dumb,extremely boring,stupid,slow,unoriginal comedy is fine for kids. My rating:G. Kid, 11 years old September 29, What's the story?
Is it any good? Talk to your kids about Our editors recommend. A Bug's Life. Cute animated tale with some mild peril and scary bugs. Kung Fu Panda. Appealing kid-friendly comedy; some scary scenes. Cute story has some crude humor and innuendo. For kids who love animation and underdogs. Though hardly known for their speed, Turbo longs to be the fastest snail the world has known.
His dreams seem mere fantasies until he has a freak accident that puts him closer to his goal. Somehow, little Turbo gets mixed up in a car engine. Despite his fragility, it doesn't destroy him, but makes him stronger.
Suddenly, he can speed around at maximum velocity. This magical prowess seems to derive from having ingested performance-enhancing fumes. The humble garden snail winds up competing in the Indy , bolstered by the enthusiastic encouragement of his new buddy Tito, appealingly voiced by Michael Pena.
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