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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.

[–] xPhenomenusx 17 years ago

This isn't an any age friendly movie. It's so boring. This isn't even my opinion, it's a fact. Scientists have studied it, you know.

[–] diegoavilarodriguez 14 years ago

I call BS

[–] Libra27 17 years ago

I can look at this film and know that I didn't enjoy it because it's just not my type of humor. I looked at the Austin Powers movies and knew the same thing. Same goes for Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy, the Ace Ventura movies...

I have a hard time with some of the jokes being inappropriate for kids, even if they do go over their heads. Why do so many kids movies insist on having characters get substitute erections? (The Cat's hat getting longer when he's looking at the photo of the mom.) If, say, a father used this type of humor around his young kids, people would certainly take issue with it. But it's okay to park the kiddies in front of a movie with this humor.

And that's my biggest problem with this film, and this type of humor. When your kids watch it and they're just zoned out staring into space, is that really something they need to watch at all?

Should any 14 month old be in front of the TV for 2 hours? And any parent that has issues with this movie should have an even larger issue with the commercials shown at the breaks. The ad for the new ABC show, Pushing Daises, shows a man in a morgue. That's appropriate? Ugly Betty may be about a girl that's beautiful inside, but using the word ugly at all is a mixed message for kids too.

You can't worry about everything, but you certainly have control over your television set. If something makes you uncomfortable, turn it off. Vote with your remote and move on.

...At least nobody here is yelling about it not being appropriate because the mom is single, like I've seen in regards to other movies.

[–] DaviieJ 17 years ago

" The ad for the new ABC show, Pushing Daises, shows a man in a morgue. That's appropriate?
Ugly Betty may be about a girl that's beautiful inside, but using the word ugly at all is a mixed message for kids too." Libra27

WHAT?! Are you on crack? Oh, was the 'crack' reference inappropriate?

"Candy Is Dandy But Liquor Is Quicker"
--Willy Wonka

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[–] titaniumtiger29 17 years ago

I guess you never watched cartoons as a kid.
Looney Tunes, almost every classic Disney movie (even the new ones), Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network.. etc etc.
The sexual jokes and innuendos are abundant. Violence.

I watch all my favorites nowadays and pick up on the things I missed as a little kid. So... what you are complaining about is pointless because it's nothing new to the world of children's entertainment.

Uh, um. Excuse me, can we get back to the situation of the gravy?

[–] blocer7 17 years ago

Just wanted to say that last night I was baby-sitting two little boys who are 5 and 7 years old and they asked to watch this movie. I had never seen so I assumed it was totally appropiate because of what it was based off of.

They laughed their heads off and didn't notice any of the inuendos -I probably would have done the same when I was that little- but with some of the jokes in there I was kinda surprised -not shocked or appalled or anything, just surprised. So I asked their dad when he came home and he said that it was OK, and that it was one of their favorite movies.

Whilst I think it's a horrible representation of a favorite childhood book, I guess that if he - a single parent of two boys- was totally okay with it, then maybe its not as bad as we make it out to be. I mean many times in the past years I've watched cartoons and movies that I loved as a little kid and for the first time noticed things that I definitly didn't notice before.

[–] titaniumtiger29 17 years ago

Oh yeah, I forgot about the whole movie just being bad period.
I'd be more upset as a parent because they totally massacred the book.

Uh, um. Excuse me, can we get back to the situation of the gravy?

[–] gtaavcasa 17 years ago

Rated PG for a reason.

[–] Chara_Angel 14 years ago

I agree...it's kinda shocking what they try to pass off as a kids film...

I AM DINOSAUR...RAR!!!

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