I just finished watching Open Season from Sony Pictures. Not Impressed. At all. The jokes were absolutely inappropriate for children, but the overall script was not written for adults. At one point a squirrel called the bear a "jesse" which I took to mean gay. How is that funny in a animated sense? I do enjoy the Shrek movies. Monsters Inc. is one of my favorite, but I don't understand marketing a animated movie to children that has adult content.My question to you with children is how do you choose what you let your kiddos watch? Do you watch it before hand? What about all the toys and the commercialism that goes with the big blockbusters these days? Does that make it harder?
From the previews I expected Open Season to be a cute movie about a performing bear adjusting to the wild, I wouldn't expect have to end up explaining to my (hypothetical) six year old that testicles are sometimes referred to as 'nuts'.
I miss the Smurfs and Fraggle Rock!
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Okay first of all my name is Jesse, so what's up with that with joke?!
It's hard to know what to let your kids watch. I usually go by the rating but like you said there is so much adult humor in eveything now. Most of it does go over their heads, but does that make it okay? There are a couple movie sites that have "Mom's ratings" on them and they tell you anything that could be an issue in the movies. It is good to be able to read on it ahead of time. I talk with my kids a lot about what they see in the movies. I do not explain the adult jokes though, I let those go. There will be plenty of time in the future for them so understand such things.
TV is much easier--Blues Clues, Dora, Diego, Tigger and Pooh, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse---you can't go wrong with those.
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