Movie -- 2023 -- Netflix
Leo
Leo is a 74-year-old class-pet lizard who hears that his kind live to 75, and decides he has one year left. A mean substitute sends him home with fifth-graders; he talks, advises, and plans an Everglades escape. A musical with crude jokes, divorce and anxiety at the kitchen table, and a death-misunderstanding that is the load -- not horror.
Not suitable under 7; parental guidance to 9 (a class pet who thinks he is dying, a mean substitute, kids' home problems); ok from 10.
- Not suitable
- Parental guidance
- Ok
GentleGuide scale for sensitive kids. Not an ACCM or Classification Board rating.
About this title
- Classification
- PG
- Length
- 102 minutes
- Consumer advice
- Mild crude humour, mild themes
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Before you press play
An Adam Sandler class-pet musical: Florida classroom, loud songs, and a lizard who thinks the clock is almost up. The pictures stay cartoony. The load is 'I have one year left', a harsh substitute, and kids bringing home divorce, anxiety, and bullying. Crude humour sits on top of that ache.
- Thinking you are dying soon
- A mean substitute
- Kids' home problems
- Divorce and worry
- Bullying
- Crude songs
- An escape plan
What may feel big
Leo overhearing that tuataras live to 75; a substitute who throws 'demerits' like weapons; kids crying about divorce, a grandparent, or a bully; songs about bodies and babies; the class turning on Leo; being dumped in the Everglades; alligators at night. The death idea is a misunderstanding -- he is not actually dying -- and that still lands.
4-6. Not a fit. Death-talk, crude songs, and other kids' hard homes are too much, even as a cartoon lizard.
7-9. Seven is the floor. They need a grown-up for 'he thinks he has one year', the substitute, and the kitchen-table problems. Pause crude songs if your house is not ready. The alligators are a short spike.
10-12. Often ok. They can hold that Leo was wrong about dying. Home problems and mean-adult energy may still want a check-in; the jokes are aimed over younger heads on purpose.
Triggers in this guide
Counts are how often that theme shows up in the notes -- not when it happens.
- Sadness 4
- Separation 1
- Loud Noises 1
- Peril 1
- Relational Conflict 2