Misleading marketing - still ticks me off.
I saw this when it originally came out in the theaters. I remember my 6 year-old responding very strongly to the marketing for this film that was aimed point blank at him and other kids his age. When I took him to the theater, I didn't pay much attention to the PG-13 rating. Boy, I wish I would have. This was *not* a film for children. I wrote a letter to Dreamworks regarding the matter, I was so upset. It would have been fine if the marketing had been somewhere close to the truth, but they were pitching ice cream and wound up serving tequila shooters. To this day, I refuse to watch Joe Dante movies and I'm hard pressed to watch anything by Spielberg, who should have known better.
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