Arco

Movie · 2025

Arco is a visually dazzling French animated sci-fi adventure from writer-director Ugo Bienvenu, arriving in US select theaters November 14, 2025 via Neon in an English-dubbed version featuring Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, and Natalie Portman among others. It follows a 10-year-old boy from the far future who accidentally crash-lands in the year 2075 and teams up with a resourceful girl named Iris to find his way home, with gentle environmental themes and a warm, hopeful tone throughout.

A great pick for kids roughly 7 and up who enjoy imaginative time-travel adventure and can handle a handful of tense, perilous moments and mild emotional themes about separation and belonging.

Scary imageryPeril & tensionViolenceLoss & griefBig emotionsBehavior modeledLoud or startling sounds

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Peril & tensionthe opening scenesMild

Arco's crash-landing in 2075 involves a chaotic, visually intense fall sequence with sudden sound effects that may startle very young viewers.

Scary imageryearly in the filmMild

The year 2075 environment is depicted as a world visibly damaged by climate change; the imagery of a struggling Earth may be unsettling for sensitive children.

Peril & tensionflight sequences throughout the filmMild

Several moments show Arco plummeting or losing control during flight; tension is brief and always resolves safely.

4 more moments are in the full report. See all of them, checked against your own family’s settings, in Little Longer.