If Nikki Minaj wants to objectify herself in order to have a career, thats cool, but when animated animals in children's movies are twerking and singing "oh my god, look at her butt" it just seems... wrong. Im sure its to get laughs out of adults, and young children wont quite make the explicit connection to sex in the song "anaconda." Me personally, i just rolled my eyes and said F that movie. Your thoughts? Anybody else put off by a song about a guy who wont put your penis in a woman unless she has an enormous silicon butt featured in a children's movie?
I find it more insulting and annoying than objectionable. Just real simpleton tripe that appeals to the easily amused folks that are always sharing stupid Minions memes thinking it's funny.
The creators know their audience. My son is 8 and has been looking forward to this movie for over a year (when we started seeing trailers for it). When bunnies sang it in the movie he was so happy-- for all of 2 seconds it actually played. Longer version is on the soundtrack.
I don't event think of the Nikki Minaj version, more of the sir mix a lot one.
Either way kids are usually enthralled with body parts (butts) and toilet humor --at least Bart Simpson and my son are :-D so I'm sure this song was thrown in just to grab hold of that demographic.
I don't find it overly nasty or anything. To me the trailer for dispicable me 3 was 'worse' showing main character Gru losing all his clothes only to be covered in a bubble gum thong singing happy birthday. (Hilarious though! I literally lol'd in the theater)
My daughter loved the bunnies' 'look at her butt' bit (which it's true lasted about 3 seconds) and the very apologetic farting bull (one fart joke per animated movie is practically unknown these days).
I want to see a sequel starring the Japanese "girl group" of red pandas. They needed more screen time! Definitely need them giving their version of the Spanish "Ketchup Song".
Leave politics out of here, and you apparently don't know that twerking, which is a sexual kind of action, is not appropriate for children, and while I'm no prude there is no reason for that to be shown in a family film.
Twerking may have started out sexual but it became a massive joke when everyone started doing it to look cool, to be ironic, to goof off,etc. It's one of those things that were seen bad, but then you quickly realize how stupid it is and how stupid it makes you look. Like planking and all of those other trends. It honestly lost it's ability to be seen sexual unless the chick is in a thong.
Parents rarely monitor or even care what their children watch. Parents are becoming worse at parenting, hence why the younger generations are entitled little *beep* Even with children movies it also has to appeal to adults, so they make sure to put in things only adults will understand and laugh at.
Most kids just aren't going to be influenced by a cartoon but rather their 'celebrity idols'
If a child sees the bunnies doing it then does it let her know only stupid people do it and move on. It shouldn't have to be up to the TV, movies, actors, athletes or anyone we put on pedestals to be good role models and parent your children. Which seems to be the ever growing problem. People are wanting everything censored with the whole 'think of the children' guise when in all reality they should be parenting their children. Don't spread your legs and pop one out if you can't correct the things they may or may not influence him or her.
If you really care that much, see the movie alone. See if it's acceptable for your child. If it is then let someone else take her to spare you from having to see it again. If you don't find it acceptable then don't take her to watch. Really is that simple. But that's just too much work, so it's easier to point the finger and blame others. But don't sit there and tell other parents that don't mind it (the vast majority mind you) that it shouldn't be in there due to your own subjective opinions.
Not to bring politics into it, but if we allowed both the left and right to determine what we can see on TV we'd literally have nothing to watch..like ever. Don't like something? Change the *beep* channel. Don't go on crusades wanting it banned, demanding *beep* be changed, saying X shouldn't be in that due to X reason,etc.
I'm not suggesting any legislation be passed or anything. Not trying to dictate what anybody can do or think or say in or about a movie, so relax lol. I expressed an opinion. I'm sorry you take my own opinion more seriously than I do.
It's overrated trash, but in a world where Ghostbusters are women,emoticons got their own animated movie and Powerpuff Girls twerk it's not that awkward.