Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

119 min · Fantasy

USPGUKUAUPG

51 BOLD

ScoutScore

Heads up before you watch. Notable content.

Howl's Moving Castle scores 51 on the ScoutScore, which is Bold. Heads up before you watch. Notable content. FilmScout maps 15 flagged scenes and 3 marked caution.

A ScoutScore is a living number. We re-check movies against the source and raise or lower it when we find something the first pass missed, so a score you see today can differ from one you saw last month.

What FilmScout flagged

Heads up	12
Caution	3

Content map

How the scenes we flagged in this movie divide up by kind. These are shares of what was flagged, not a level, and not a promise about anything we did not flag: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.

Flagged for scary and dark with violence and action.

Scary and dark	49%
Violence and action	32%
Themes	17%
Sexual content	none flagged
Substances	none flagged
Language	2%
All flagged content	100%

Direction is the kind of content flagged. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the dotted line, which is 100. The scale has no ceiling, so a shape can cross it.

Scenes FilmScout flagged

Heads up Witch of the Waste curses Sophie
Heads up Sophie discovers her transformed appearance
Heads up War battleships fly overhead
Heads up The king summons wizards to war
Heads up Mild profanity - "damn"
Heads up Howl returns smelling of war and warns of transformation
Heads up Burning warship and enemy bombs at the port
Heads up Howl's despair spiral - calling on spirits of darkness
Heads up Suliman strips the Witch of the Waste of her power
Caution Howl transforms and battles Suliman's forces to escape the palace

Where each one lands in the runtime, and alerts that arrive before it does, are in the app.

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Age ratings by country

AU	PG
GB	U
US	PG

Talk about it after

“Howl has been hiding from responsibilities and using magic mostly for himself, but Sophie sees something worth believing in underneath all that. What do you think helped Sophie trust Howl even when most people around her warned her not to?”

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Common questions

Is Howl's Moving Castle okay for kids?

Howl's Moving Castle scores 51 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Bold tier. Heads up before you watch. Notable content. FilmScout has mapped 15 flagged scenes in it, covering dark imagery, action, theme. The right answer depends on your child, which is why FilmScout shows you the scenes instead of giving a verdict.

What is the ScoutScore for Howl's Moving Castle?

51, which is the Bold tier. The ScoutScore is driven by the intensity of a movie's heaviest moments rather than how many it has.

What is Howl's Moving Castle rated?

Howl's Moving Castle is rated PG in the United States. Ratings differ by country: AU PG, GB U, US PG. A letter rating stamps a whole movie at once, so FilmScout scores it scene by scene instead.

Is it OK for your kid? The age-by-age answer

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