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June 20, 2007
Movie Review
Youngestand I attended an afternoon movie show while Eldest was at a birthday party. We stood in line for Shrek 3 but it sold out right before we could get the tickets. Man, I was so bummed. The only other show that was available was Surfs Up.
So, I grab two tickets, pick up a $4.50 small soda and we rush into the show. Let me tell you that we got the last two seats in the very back row. The theater was mobbed, humid, and smelled faintly of dirty diapers. Not the wet kind, if you know what I mean.
Eww.
Well, the show starts and it's a bit violent and dark. As the movie goes on, I am more and more dismayed at the language that was used through this movie.
There was a penguin says "it tastes like sh...,"
A chicken says "I can feel it in my nuggets,"
Name-calling (loser, cocky, jerk, snowflake, bum, blubber-ball, fish sticks, "dirty trash can full of poop")and the winning phrase of pecker face. Pecker face!*
I was shocked. Here's the kicker: not only did the character clearly call another character a pecker face, the theater was running the closed captioning so everyone got to read the words "pecker face" as well as hearing it. I'm sitting in the theater with my seven year old, watching this movie. The theater is full of children of all ages, some even as young as four or five.
Lovely. Just lovely.
So all you readers out there looking to take your young children to this movie, I'd have to definitely suggest you stay home and save your money.
*All the other name calling didn't bother me too much. Youngest's heard them before but I still maintain that pecker face was over the top for a childrens movie.
Posted by Cate at June 20, 2007 10:32 PM
Comments
It's rated PG for mild language and rude humor, so it clearly wasn't meant to be seen by small children. Too bad you weren't made aware of this at the theater, which shows what a joke movie ratings are.
Posted by: marydell at June 21, 2007 09:29 AM
We have been to PG movies before and we have definitely seen them at home. I don't even care about the other rude humor. I have yet to encounter a PG movie calling someone a peckerface and I felt that THAT was over the top.
Posted by: Kate at June 21, 2007 09:56 AM
well, it was a bird movie.... I suppose peckerface could be interpreted more like "beakface" by a kid?
but sheesh, you're right.
Posted by: caltechgirl at June 21, 2007 06:36 PM
Thanks for the review. That movie is off our list as of now.
Cas
Posted by: cassie-b at June 26, 2007 09:37 AM
