Personally I don’t think there is anything in any of the 6 SW movies (That’s excluding ROTS for the Anakin bonfire) that make them not “kid friendly”, at any age. Although boredom is a factor for younger kids, if they don’t understand what is going on… or are watching the prequels, at any age.
I think it makes a difference, kid suitability wise who is doing the violence, who they are doing it to and the context. Luke and his aunt/uncle being murdered is 100% unequivocally a bad thing, done by the nasty baddies, with fantastic music to tell us Luke is super sad about it. Would Greedo’s children finding his black and charred corpse in the Cantina be as acceptable? Probably not.
a little more realism in that scene would play just fine.
Agreed.
Oh and hopefully somebody with the FX skills can overlay a baseball-bat onto Luke’s Saber in the Ridiculous Jedi edit… complete with wooden soundFX!