"I could take my elementary age kids to."
Having seen it, what would you say is the cutt-off age?
I've got wee ones and I'm not sure they could handle some of the parts I've heard about.
My kids are 3rd and 6th grade. There are some violent scenes with the Roman soldiers, but I wouldn't call it too gory. There is a troubling scene with a few dead men hanging from a tree, but it's very brief, and I'm not sure my kids even caught it. There are scenes when Elizabeth and Mary are both giving painful births, but I consider that one educational. Over all, it lead my kids to ask questions and consider things from the nativity story that they've never considered before. Everything from the journey to Bethlehem not being an easy walk just down the road, to Mary being so young, to the turbulent Roman world of the time.