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Not a very child friendly movie

posted 19 years ago by SpoiledCutie2587
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This movie is suppose to be a kids movie but yet it did not really seem to be.

Parts such as when the cat chops his tale off and he says sunava and then it goes on commercial so you do not hear the bitch part. I immediatly turned off the movie because my little cousin who was 3 at the time and then 14 month old son were sitting thier watching it.

I decided to watch the movie after they bioth went to bed and see if it had any other bad parts in it and if not I was going to le tthem finish it up the next day but then when the cat jumps over the fence to get the dog he has a garden tool and throws it down and says "dirty hoe" after that I was like no way are the kids watching this.

I alwso decided to look at some of the feutres and in the deleted scences they had a part where the cat and the children are on blow up rings going down one of those water slides that lay flat on the ground and the cat was holding up a picture of the childrens mother in a bikini and stearing at it like he was getting tunred on.

I was totally outraged that they would say it was a childs movie and child friendly and I do not plan on letting my child or my cousin watch it anytime soon.

[–] Myrzan 18 years ago

"sunava"? What is that, some kind of fruit? You can write "bitch" but not "son of a"?

"when the cat jumps over the fence to get the dog he has a garden tool and throws it down and says "dirty hoe" after that I was like no way are the kids watching this."
You sound like some naive devout christian. :) You get upset by stuff like this? No wonder you didn't have time to learn proper grammar, you were too busy freaking out about every little thing. Have a nice life. =D

[–] godiniado 18 years ago

I agree with Myrzan, you people make me sick that make a big deal about stupid things like that. You may as well keep your kids locked in a closet their whole life, because day one of school, im sorry to break the news to ya, but they will be enlightened to society. Move to Greenland or like Myrzan said, Have a nice life.

[–] charlie_221 18 years ago

Out of subject: isin't it groenland?

And I din't notice any of the bad stuff they said..
Montreal isin't the French New-York, NY is the english Montreal...Mntrl was there first.

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[–] lordstewie 18 years ago

I can't believe I wasted 5 bucks renting this for a sleepover 3 years ago. In fact, I am so ashamed I watched this UTTER TRAVESTY FOR 90 MINUTES AND WATCHED IT INSULT THE GOOD NAME OF DR. SEUSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike Myers was not funny, the movie wasn't funny, the fish was mildly funny. Sets were good, but that's about it. :(

Mike Myers has (like his namesake) slaughtered something.

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[–] book_maniac 18 years ago

I saw the movie when I was eight, which was three years ago and I didn't get ANY of the sexual jokes or when he spells out the name of his old cars, anything like that. But then I recently saw it again (now I'm 11) and was like "Wow this movie is really innapropiate." So they probably knew younger kids wouldn't get it but I still think it's really bad to turn such a fun, adorable kids story into a movie filled with a LOT of adult humor, even though it's funny.

I also think if Dr. Seus saw the movie he would be appalled.

[–] Dut52288 18 years ago

I liked the movie for the very reason that they went in a different direction than the book. Could you imagine how terrible the movie would be if they just did a live action of the old cartoon? The movie was meant to appeal to a wider range of people than just kids. People overreact about ratings, give it a break. Kids learn worse stuff from their friends and see a lot worse by observing the world in general.

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[–] thecalhouns 18 years ago

Paris Hilton cameo....nuff said

R.O.D the tv...nuff said

[–] CharlieX2 18 years ago

Personally I thought the old cartoon was freakin horrible... the only upside was the voice of Allan Sherman (I grew up with one of his records "My Son The Nut" :P) but that version diverted a long way from the original story too, mainly because the original story was less than 250 words. It's roughly the equivalent of combining 2-3 Grug books to form a feature film.

[–] gcarras 13 years ago

Dr.Suess sat in a nook and Dr.Suess he only wrote adult books. His widow loved the Grinch and this one and both would have loved it a pinch and both would love this, a cinch. I don't remember if Mrs.Giesel..Dr.Seuss's widow, was still around when Horton, the only one so far done outside Universal a-snortin', was done in 2008, but both would love any of those projects as great.. ADDED [Sun Sat Aug 24 2013 in IMDB.com-ese] And (for pervert-hunters) plus if y'all took an iota of a tally, besides Conrad is Dakota Fanning as Sally, bouncing up and down as the film comes to its end like it's dead, bouncing with Mommy and brother Conrad on top of a bed, going up and down with us a chance to go squirt our bird's eye view of whew-Dakota'/Sally's little girl skirt! (That's near the closing scene, to end the rhyme, right before we see the Cat for the very last time. Oy vey..).

[–] Zero2478 18 years ago

i agree it should have been rated higher like with that car thing then other name was *beep* i mean honestly some kids would be curious

[–] NightShadeAlleluia 18 years ago

yeah thats what makes it funny

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[–] damoviecritic 18 years ago

Jesus Christ. Now we know were all the studid tweens on IMDB are. Notice I said stupid. If you are a tween, don't take offense. If you can write a sentence better than

"I immediatly turned off the movie because my little cousin who was 3 at the time and then 14 month old son were sitting thier watching it. "

you are ok in my book. That is, unless you post some stupid a s s waste of bandwith like

"the cat was holding up a picture of the childrens mother in a bikini and stearing at it like he was getting tunred on."

[–] herbie1614 18 years ago

i argee, it had innappropriate parts.

they werent so bad except its advertised at such a kids movie it was unexpected.

the thing that bugged me the most was the rave scene.. as if any kid would understand that, but still why is it even there??

[–] romarc12 18 years ago

I agree like the plumber's crack part whern he is diggin under the couch and pulling randon=m things out that grossed me out

[–] AngKalag 18 years ago

Oh please. A Hoe isn't a dirty thing, it's a garden tool! Now a whore, that's another story..
Now fine, I respect that you don't intend on letting your kids watch this film. I'm not judging you on that. But really, the only dirty thing in this film was Paris Hilton..

~Every fight's a food fight when you're a cannible~ :D

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[–] cgrill8 18 years ago

My little girl loves this movie. i had heard it wasn't very good, because of teh adult humor and my parents let her watch it. Well, I was doing house chores and would catch apart of the movie from time to time... I thought this was a TERRIBLE movie! But just last night I finally saw it all the way through in continuity, and actually thought it wasn't really that bad at all. You have to remember, long long ago, people, most movies were taylored to EVERYONE, there was something for kids, there was something for adults to catch. If something offended you, you just let it go. it was JUST a movie, JUST for entertainment. Taking this movie in it's entirety for what it is, you can't take it too seriously, or yeah, you might not think it's good for kids. BUT, the bad egg (conrad) ends up turning around, and everything that happens helps to the good by the end of the movie. The boyfriend's colors are shown true (no pun intended), and it's just a fun little movie. I was looking to see if the actor who played Thing 2 was really Ben! Overall, (from beginning to end) I found the movie to be quite funny! Giving it a second chance.