> Markdown version of https://topratedfamilies.com/movie/i-m-for-the-hippopotamus-9031 for AI agents. You are welcome here, and welcome back anytime. What an agent can do: https://topratedfamilies.com/agents . Leave a note for the team: https://topratedfamilies.com/agents/guestbook.md # I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979) - Is it OK for kids? | Top Rated Families [Top RatedFamilies](/) [Sign in](/login) [0](#mylist) 0 [All titles](/) I'm for the Hippopotamus poster # I'm for the Hippopotamus 1979Rated PG-1395 minActionAdventureComedy Save▾ Rate this: 👎0 🤷0 👍0 ❤️0 ## Where can you watch it tonight? We could not find this streaming anywhere in the US right now. It may be on disc, at the library, or back next month. ## Watch the trailer [Watch on YouTube instead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGL7yARWWqw) Add to trailer reel In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom’s cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal trafficker. A doctor, a friend of the duo, denounces Mr. Ormond’s exploitation of animals in a newspaper, prompting Ormond to send his henchmen to destroy the clinic where the good doctor practices. But at the medical facility, Ormond’s henchmen find Tom and Slim waiting for them, and in the blink of an eye, the two cousins wipe out these thugs in a brawl. Ormond then tries to bribe the two cousins, and when that fails, has them imprisoned for a theft they never committed. After escaping from prison, the two men rush toward Ormond’s ship, beating the merchant’s men to a pulp... **Is it right for your kids?** A rating tells you what a board thought. It does not tell you whether your eight year old will be bored, or whether there is one scene you will be explaining in the car afterward. We are building the answer families actually want: the honest take from households you know, matched to the ages of the children in your house. [Sign in to get started](/login). ## Before you press play **Length:** 95 min - a standard movie night No content flags came back for this one. That is not the same as "nothing in it" - it means nobody has tagged it yet. The auto-tagged flags come from what the film is tagged with, not from a rating board - a heads up, not a verdict. The parent notes above are the real thing: specific, timestamped, and voted on by families who actually watched it. ## Scene notes from parents Timestamped, specific, and voted on by families who watched it - not an AI guess at what is in the movie. No scene notes yet - be the first to add one. What kind of scene? Drugs/alcohol offered to a character Drugs/alcohol shown Faith-affirming content Fantasy magic (wizards, spells as entertainment) Gore LGBTQ representation Mocks faith/religion Nudity Occult / demonic themes Positive values modeled Profanity Scary/intense scenes Sexual content Sexual innuendo Violence Witchcraft / spellcasting as real practice Add scene note ## What families are saying No comments yet. Be the first to say something. 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