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We took DD at 22ish months to see Frozen and she loved it! It was in 3D and she even wore the glasses the whole time. We just made sure to have drinks and snacks for her.

I haven't taken DS (2.5 yrs) to any movies yet. We rarely watch tv at home and on Christmas eve he barely made it through our special screening at home of Muppet Christmas, 45 minutes. I haven't been to the movies in years so don't have any burning desire to take him. 4 or so sounds like a good age to start!

In a theater? I really don't know, I feel like it would be too loud, but he can sit through a movie at age 3.

We took our son to Despicable Me 2 at around 2.5 and he loved it! His sister was about 6 months old and she actually did OK too. BUT now that she is 17 months and on the move, we tried to take them both to the Lego movie and I had to leave with the little one halfway through

Both DD's sat through movies in the theaters at 2.5 yo! Toy Story 3 for DD1 and Frozen for DD2. I think my kids would actually sit through it more at a theater than at home where there's lots of other distractions.

@Mrs. Bee: I agree that it depends on the child.

We're not at this point yet, but when my brother and I were little my mom would do a mock-up movie theater at home, we LOVED it, and it could totally be used to gauge your child's readiness. She would make the living room as dark as possible, put our play chairs in the middle of the room, and take tickets from Chuckie Cheese or raffle tickets or something that we would give to her to enter the room and get some popcorn. I remember always thinking it was the coolest thing, it made watching movies at home very special

I'm actually talking to her on the phone right now and just reminded her about this, and she laughed and laughed, then told me that was her way of distracting us for a couple of hours so that she could get some schoolwork done (she's a teacher) and that she's glad she was able to turn her keeping us out of her way into a fond childhood memory. LOL