But on reading recent threads here I'd advise to take your kids
to Pan's Labyrinth but not to The Passion of The Christ.

*I* won't even watch it.

A recent documentary called "The God That Wasn't There" has some
unauthorized clips from the Gibson picture. I don't consider myself
overly squeamish but I fast-forwarded through the sequence and did the
same when showing the doc to a friend. "The God That Wasn't There"
shows a scene by scene analysis of the Gibson show and counts over 240 scenes-- not frames-- of torture footage.