Christian audiences have made themselves a demographic worth chasing by turning recent releases like “Son of God” and “Heaven is for Real” into bona fide blockbusters. It’s hard to know who exactly are the ideal viewers for the latest faith-based film, “Little Boy,” though.
Mouth-puckeringly saccharine in a way only children’s movies can get away with, the World War II drama is saddled with a (probably deserved) PG-13 rating that would impede the only people who might actually get something out of it (i.e., little boys and girls) from seeing it.
Executive produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, the husband-and-wife team behind “Son of God,” “Little Boy” boasts several moral lessons worth repeating.