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Is this suitable for a 12 year old who has seen...


Team America, South Park, There is Something about Mary, Scream and The Shining.
I just through in comedys with horror for a variety

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wow yes!!!!!!!!!! I mean there is loads of drugs (LOADS) but it is just about suitable if he has seen them. Wow careful what you show your 12 year old



the name is sam by the way

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yeah if you do check back that was an accident he went over to a cousin who is allowed to watch everything for most and Team America and South Park were my bad.

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Do NOT show a 12 year old a movie like this, maybe in 4 or 5 years. People learn tuff from TV especially at a young age.

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Why wouldn' t you want a kid to see this movie? Sure, maybe 12 is a bit young but it seems the kid has a more mature taste than many.

And just watching stuff on TV doesn't make people go out and reenact them. That's just a logic fallacy.

And its a joke movie. I mean, what's the moral? " Don't sit around being lazy, or you'll get yourself into a whole world of problems." Pretty sound advice.


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I'm not sure having seen "Team America" shows mature taste lol

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no, no, no and HELLLL NO!!! nudity, sex, pot, and lots and lots of blood.

It's cute how you think I'm listening

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Wow. Judging by your reaction, you should probably just tell the OP to never let the kid go out into the real world either.


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yes, highly recommended

no pun intended

or is it?

http://www.myspace.com/straightbeef1981

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I think that it's perfectly fine letting a 12 year old see this movie.

I first saw it when I was around that age and it didn't affect me badly at all.

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No *beep*-up you cant see this

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I don't see what's wrong with it. I think it's a pretty harmless film. It'll probably get him interested in gore films, but that's about it. If he likes this, he may also want to check out the EVIL DEAD films and the GEORGE A. ROMERO ZOMBIE films.

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for the love of god enough with the ages, this is just a movie and if he seen boobs or porn before im sure can see this.

I first saw porn when i was 10...
so no big deal let him watch it he will grow up and realize its not real but a movie.

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Yeah, if you've seen 'Scream', you'll be fine with this movie. The movie is more of a comedy than anything anyway, it's not serious horror, so i don't see any problem.

My 13yr old brother is begging me to go and buy this so he can watch it, and i have no problems with him seeing it.

It's not like it's a hardcore horror like Cannibal Holocaust or anything, so what's the problem?

I say see it and enjoy it, and don't take it too seriously. It's a lot of fun.

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Made you look.

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fer sure fer sure.. i think this is one of those movies where if they don't get the references they don't even know it's being referenced. if they do get the reference, well then they already know about it anyway so it's not exposing them to anything new..

but then again, i'm not so sure, lol - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSVP9LuRhU

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Go ahead.

The movie's hilarious, and the gore is almost like a Monty Python episode because it's so surreal and ridiculous. If he's seen the first three of those, the tits and drug use will be absolutely nothing to him.

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I first saw this when I was about 6 even though it wasn't even out then, so I was probably about 8 when it came out, so it might have been 8 or 9 when I saw it, and I was fine with it - though I was being traumatised by my big sister who made me watch like alll the horror films with her as a child so hmm.

Anyway from what I've seen of the youth these days they act worse than what's in this movie.

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