My family subscribes to Netflix, an online movie rental company. Sometimes I rent a movie just for me, that hubby doesn't watch, and vice versa. And on the weekends, we rent a movie that we think our son would like. Renting for a 3 year old is not so easy though, if we hand't seen the movie before hand. So with movies we haven't seen before, we read a lot of reviews. Unfortunately ratings like PG, PG13, etc is pretty much useless for parents. Case in point, we rented Chicken Little this past weekend because our son requested it. While he enjoyed the majority of it, the alien shooting/zapping others in the end was too scary for him. This movie has a rating of G - good for all ages.  Apparently, not for 3 year olds.

So today, I was looking at Netflix and happened to see a bright green button within the review page. I click on it, and was pleasantly surprised about the rating/review. And what's even more surprising is that I recognize it bing a Minti member: Commonsensemedia.

On their review of Chicken Little , they mentioned about the the alien mayhem toward the end of the movie. This would have been useful had I found out about this review beforehand.

As a parent, I find commonsensemedia very useful and the fact that they're working with Netflix is even nicer!!!