A First Time For Everything…
I got up and walked out of a movie on Sunday.
PG-13 can cover a whole lot of ground and I discovered that the hard way yesterday when I took my kids to see Norbit. I like Eddie Murphy. I liked Dr. Doolittle. I liked The Nutty Professor movies. I liked Daddy Day Care. That’s what I was expecting when it came to Norbit. The previews were clean and funny.
I was wrong.
Language was absolutely terrible, relatively explicit sexual situations and nudity within the first twenty minutes. It was awful, just awful. This movie should have been rated R, and whoever is in charge of rating these movies should come up with a new system, because the one currently in place isn’t worth jack diddly.
Grrr!
And it’s not even Wednesday. 
February 19th, 2007 at 9:37 am
This is weird. I blogged about movies today too. I think it was on Friday that I heard an essayist (must’ve been Public Radio) reading a piece on what were the Murphy brothers thinking when they wrote this script. Just from what I heard, I knew it wssn’t the movie for me. In fact Girl mentioned going to see this and I said NO. That totally pisses me off about the rating. Uh…that’s why we have them. I wasn’t any too happy with the last PG13 rating on Employee of the Month. I think anymore it’s used as a marketing tool by the studios rather than a reall standard for the viewing public.
Sorry that happend to you, especially since you probably didn’t get a refund on your ticket price. 
February 19th, 2007 at 9:45 am
That’s okay, Rhonda. Sometimes you just can’t wait until Wednesday. Really sad that you had to walk out on the movie Saturday. Saturday was my day for a resturant to be walked out of. I like Eddie Murphy but what I don’t like is all the fowl language a lot of comedians and actors use. If you’re good that is so unnecessary. Have a good Monday.
February 19th, 2007 at 11:02 am
What kills me is all the parents who don’t seem to limit what their kids watch. AC is 5, and it’s amazing which movies her classmates are watching. We’re already in the “everyone else has seen it, why can’t I?”
Oh, well. I guess it’s good practice for those teen years…
February 19th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
You SHOULD have asked for your money back. If it was rated PG-13, you had every reason to believe it would be appropriate for young teens. Explicit sexual situations, nudity and foul language (beyond the occasional damn or hell) are NOT PG-13 in my book. Write the headquarters of the movie theater. Write your local newspaper’s arts columnist. Complain, complain, complain.
Yeah, PC… good practice for the teen years.
Been there, done that. And after visiting #1 son, DIL and grandbaby on Saturday, the DH and I were commenting on the ride home about how proud we were of him. He got a promotion and raise at work on Friday — he’s a project leader for a particular client’s projects. He has his own peons now. 
The DH and I agreed we made a good decision when we didn’t sell him to that band of gypsies.
February 19th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Having been forced to see this movie over the weekend I must agree. This movie was not what the previews made it out to be, and my kids absolutely loved The Nutty Professor. Needless to say, this was what we were expecting. Dh still found it quite funny as did my teen, but the rest of us were stuck watching a movie that was at least mediocre.
February 19th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Movie studios lobby hard to get a PG-13 over an R rating because it hurts ticket sales. Appropriate or not, they want the teen dollar and if they have to go with their parents or not at all, the cash flow is majorly stifled.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Jen, I didn’t get a refund. I was too pissed to ask.
Ginger, the language and themes were terrible.
Kimberly, I know exactly what you mean. My kids don’t get to watch a lot of stuff that other kids do. Parental controls are on every TV. You just have to be so careful.
Marilyn, sounds like you’ve got a great family. Not selling your son to the gypsies was a good thing.
Sheryl, my fourteen-year old didn’t think it was that bad, but my younger one was horrified. Like I said, I was expecting Daddy Day Care and the like. Not that. :/
Andrea, that’s what Jen said as well. It all comes down to the money, doesn’t it?