My daughter is 5 is ABSOLUTELY LOVES this game. True, the flying parts are difficult and I end up flying (and I am NOT a gamer) while she plays the player two option and helps shoot down the planes. My daughter does play the game by herself after we get past the airplanes. The nice part about this game and no one dies - they show the dog flying away attached to a balloon or Kevin and Carl getting away from the bad guy before the games resets. The game teaches players that they have to play together to win as you can not move to the next scene without the other player - helping the other player over a wall or pulling Carl up with a rope. The first few scenes of the game show help hints using monkeys to get passed an obstacle such as Carl and Russell helping each other up a cliff or Russell lowering a rope to Carl to climb up the cliff. Graphics are awesome and the characters talk to each other throughout the game. She has won the game four times (the fourth about 5 minutes ago) and she keeps on wanting to play again and again. BEST GAME EVER to show kids teamwork with minimal violence, great music, great graphics. Love IT!

One quick update - my daughter is not a wii snob as the only other game she's been able to play without difficulty is MarioKart and that's b/c of the wheel and the option to attach it to a table with the add on hardware. This is the first game she's been able to use and learn to use the nunchuk. She wouldn't play the Disney Princess game b/c she couldn't figure out the nunchuk. She is now teaching my wife how to play and even takes her controller to show her. She's tried to do the biplane parts by heself but its hard for her to keep the plane level while firing so I still do these scenes for her.