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My family loves watching movies. Mostly we rent movies, but occasionally there will a movie that just has to be seen on the big screen. Those used to any movies that were cartoons, when my kids were little, then Harry Potter, and now it’s action movies. Which are great on the big screen.
I’m pretty picky about what my kids watch. I read parent movie reviews before we rent a movie. My kids are older now, and I’m not going to pretend that they haven’t been exposed to all kinds of language at school. I’m okay with some language in a movie, not okay with too much “sexual content”. I’m sure my 7th grader has heard all of that at school, too, but my 5th grader hopefully has not.
At the end of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, it says Movie based on Hasbro action figure toys (or something very similar to that). So why, in a movie based on toys, did they feel the need to cram it full of trash sexual content? My five year old nephew saw the first Transformer movie, and I’m sure he’ll see this one. Sure, the sexual content will be completely over his head, but why did it need to be in there at all? It’s an action movie about toys.
I lean towards pretty conservative with TV and movies, sometimes too much because I will forget that my kids are older now and have been exposed to more. But if my husband thinks there was too much completely unnecessary sexual content in a movie, then I know it was bad. That was the first thing he commented on when we walked out of the theatre. The thing was, it really wasn’t necessary for the movie. It took away from the action scenes and provided some really uncomfortable moments in a theatre packed with the under 8 crowd. You can have a great action flick that most ages will want to see without the sex stuff. My family saw the recent Terminator movie, and there was hardly any sexual content. It would have been completely out of place in that movie. Like it was in this movie about action figures.
I admit I did not check the parent reviews before we saw Transformers. I also know that it was rated PG-13 for a reason, but so was the first Transformers movie. We saw the first one and it had a lot less sexual content, and it was pretty mild compared to this one, so I wasn’t expecting it. My opinion is, if you’re making a movie based on toys or characters that will be familiar to children, then make the movie appropriate for all ages. Don’t try to throw in some juvenile, vulgar sex humor to appeal to whoever that appeals to. I’m okay with language, I understand you’re probably not going to find an action movie without profanity, and it wouldn’t be realistic anyway. But for the mom in the movie to talk about her son getting “his cherry popped”? Not necessary at all, and pretty inappropriate for the group that was watching the movie in my theatre.
I was just disappointed, and it did seem to spoil the movie for me. I loved the first one, but I was so bummed out about how much time was devoted to sex that I didn’t enjoy this one at all.
So what do you guys think, if you saw the movie did you think it went a little overboard on the sexual content?
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2 Responses to “Action figures and… sex??”
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MIkki on July 7th, 2009 4:55 pm
I have two teenage girls and neither of them wanted to see this. They had heard about the ‘issues’ in this movie and were really disappointed.
I don’t know why they had to go there with a movie like this. So sad to see it happen to something that is based on a kids toy.
Sheri on July 7th, 2009 6:47 pm
We hadn’t heard anything about the issues with this movie, and my 12 year old was the one who really wanted to see it. My teenager thought it would be too “young” for him – boy, he was wrong on that! It is such a shame, but at least now I know to check reviews even for movies that should be “kid friendly”.