Would you allow a 7 year old to watch Jumanji?

I was at work, and we have a television. A man came in with his seven year old daughter to order their dinner and decided to eat in the restaurant. We had the TV on AMC, and it happened to be showing Jumanji(film) which came out when I was a kid in the early 90’s. Immediately after allowing her to order a Mountain Dew, he obnoxiously complained about the film being on TV, with the justification that “Hey! There’s a seven year old here!” This prompted a discussion about whether the film was appropriate for a child that age. Personally, I saw the movie when I was seven or eight and didn’t have issues with it. I also found it a bit contradictory that this father allowed his daughter to drink the caffeine-riddled 24-oz Mountain Dew, but a movie about a board game whose only frightening aspects are animals is totally out of the question. Am I the only one who sees something ridiculous about this?