does anybody else find the club scene...
ahem...a little raunchy for a kids movie?
or is it just me?
"God doesn't make the world the way it is...We Do" -Rorschach.
Definitely by today's standard, but I've watched this movie with many children, whom all love it. It's just a variety show happening on the stage while shady men down mugs of (root!) beer. Nothing really uncomfortable about it...
....except maybe that one rat with his tongue hanging out as he tries to frantically grab at the showgirls, but it's all played for laughs.
This movie is heads and shoulders above most "kid movies" and I would hate to discount it simply because they make a vague allusion to alcohol in a scene.
oh i don't have a problem...i'm not some anal protective parent...its just interesting.
obviously not root beer though, considering Dawson gets wasted.
Thats whats funny and surprising for disney.
"God doesn't make the world the way it is...We Do" -Rorschach.
Dawson is drugged, not drunk.
Although the dancing girls' costumes are scanty by Victorian standards, they are actually a lot more modest than most of what you see on the average beach.
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Although the dancing girls' costumes are scanty by Victorian standards, they are actually a lot more modest than most of what you see on the average beach.
LOL too true!
Speaking from personal experience, the "raunchiness" of this scene will simply fly right over the heads of children watching it.
Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves. share
Speaking from personal experience, the "raunchiness" of this scene will simply fly right over the heads of children watching it.
It flew over my head! When I saw the movie in the theater at age seven, the bar scene bored me to tears. It was my least favorite, lost my attention greatly. :D
Even though what she is wearing is more modest than a lot of things we see in advertising or in real life today, the raunchiness comes from her stripping down to it, and singing lyrics like "there's nothing I wouldn't do"
but, it doesn't bother me at all. Its refreshing when movies don't wear kiddie gloves all the time. Its ok for children to be exposed to real life things, because it won't be so exciting and new to them later on in life.
I haven't seen this movie since I was about 6 or 7 years old, and the things I remembered about it was not the showgirls, or the drinking, or the violence. I remembered the cute things that made me laugh, like the boot machine leaving prints on paper. Seeing things like this movie will not scar children, and it makes me sad that if this movie was made today, it would've had to lose a lot of what made it special.
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