Knocked Up

[natvtxn]

Just saw this. Really a funny movie. I thought it would be a chick flick, but it isn't.

[FamilyGal]

My daughter said this movie was hilarious and highly recommended it. I love the girl that stars in it. I always watch her on Grey's Anatomy.

[TripleA]

LOVED this movie! I saw it once with girlfriends and then took DH to see it. Totally worth seeing!

[Wilson]

We've spent more money at the movie theater in the last few months (since Shrek3, I think?) than we have in the last 8 years. There's been such great movies out recently that we couldn't wait for the DVD. Knocked Up is yet another I've had on my list to see...

[11Linda11]

I had mixed feelings about this movie.

It's really over the top with the sexual stuff and the guys drug use.
I think those characterizations ruined the movie for me.

The story between the two main characters was cute, though.

NOT A KIDS MOVIE!

[natvtxn]

That's why this is posted!...

R:For sexual content, drug use and language

[Wilson]

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that we would take the kids to see this. I did think it was a chick-flick, but was happy to read otherwise. I don't know that I could convince dh to spend one of our date-nights seeing this one though.

[11Linda11]

You would think that would make a difference. A lady brought her young son to see it. He was about 8-10.

[natvtxn]

Can you imagine what this kids is subjected to at home then? Next thing you know, she will be suing the movie for showing such graphics!

[11Linda11]

Really made me sad.

[tiger]

We saw it, and enjoyed it. Not at all what we were expecting; the love story was packaged with enough frat-house humor to keep most guys amused.

[TXrose]

You would think that would make a difference. A lady brought her young son to see it. He was about 8-10.


I never took/take my kids under 17 to an R rated movie. My two older ones are out of high school but I still have one under 17 and I don't take him to see R rated either although he's 14. We do sometimes preview movies at home and then let him watch. I have been to many R rated where I have seen kids from birth up there that shouldn't be there. I remember when the first Pirates of the Caribean came out, we weren't even sure it was ok for kids so we saw it first and then took youngest to see it. Some of the previews looked a bit scary. I have had kids that I work with tell me of movies they have seen that I would never have taken my kids too, it's appaling what parents let their kids see and at such young ages.

[rusti]

I agree about PG-13 and R rated movies. My dd just turned 13 yesterday and is so excited b/c now she can see PG-13 movies. We did tell her that we had to approve of them first. There is a big gap between PG-13 and R. Some things are not appropriate for 13 year olds, but a 17 year it would be ok.

[msucowboy97]

yeah i am going to see this movie this weekend. Didnt know what to think...but i promised the wife to take her. But she gets to go to gander mountain for two hours.

[TXrose]

yeah i am going to see this movie this weekend. Didnt know what to think...but i promised the wife to take her. But she gets to go to gander mountain for two hours.

Hmm maybe I need to try that! I spent nearly 2 hrs in Gander a couple weeks ago, so maybe I need to bargin with the chick flick every now and then.

[FamilyGal]

My twins are about to turn 13. They think they will start to see all of the PG-13 movies also. WRONG. Some are still not appropriate for them to see. The shame of it is that most of the movies would be fine for them, but to make more money, they add profanity, sexual innuendos and potty humor. You take that out and many shows would still be good and okay for younger teens to see.

But, I'm just a "mean mom" according to them. According to them, EVERYONE else's parents let them see it....LOL (Riiight)

[LarkinJoanna]

DH and I don't even watch some of the PG-13. Doesn't matter what age you are. If it's filth, it's filth. Edited to add - remarks are not toward this particular movie. But, some PG-13 movies are not worth even adults watching.

[TXrose]

When I was a kid or as my kids say back in the stone age, there was no PG 13. PG was mild, somewhat like G, but G was even milder then it is now. Some PG13 movies are similar in content to what some R rated were when I was a kid. We had very few R Rated movies. I would have never asked my parents to go see one. I was lucky to get to see anything that was PG.

[msucowboy97]

back when i was younger my parents let us see R movies all the time. Now my Uncle and Aunt had the idea of not letting their kids watch cable TV or anything over pg until they were 16 and R movies after they got into college. They told my parents that the trash on TV would cause my brother and I to be gangbangers and troubled kids. 10 years later My brother is a doctor and I got my college education and never been to jail or joined a gang. But my cousins Both have spent time in Jail including one who is in jail now for 2 years. They are both heavy in drugs at one time. One has gone clean but not after turning up pregant but she is lucky her husband(year after the birth) is a very clean cut guy who has a good job.

I think alot has to do with the kids personalities. I knew when I was 12 years old that Rambo was a movie. We were able to know the difference between movies and real life. As far as Sex its around us everywhere. Hell go to the mall and look at the way the kids dress. This is up to the parents to talk and be honest with their kids. Now its easy for me to say because I dont have kids.

[TXrose]

Some kids you can let watch certain things. My older boy could not watch an R rated movie and not pick up stuff. My younger son is the same way. The daughter though, was more realistic, but kids are all different. But since the rule in our house was we screened movies that we thought might be inapproriat that's what we do with all of them.

I know one of my younger son's friends told me that he could watch R rated movies if there was no sex in it. I thought that was kinda funny since sometimes there is a lot of inuendo's. But I then I asked him how many has your mom let you see, he said NONE!!

[schnauzermom]

We took our kids (middle school age) to see Little Miss Sunshine. I had done some research into how appropriate it was for kids and felt it would be Ok for mine. They both loved it. There was bad language in it but the whole time the grandfather was saying it, the parents were telling him to stop that it wasn't appropriate. There is also drug use that has some serious consequences. I thought it was a great film about a real family. It is rated R but I have seen way worse PG-13 movies.

If you haven't seen it I would recommend it but decide for yourselves about whether it's Ok for your kids.

[msucowboy97]

This shows us that we all have different view on this. This doesnt mean anyone of us bad parent. I grew up in more of a open house. I never had a curfew and never had a list of movies to watch. My wife couldnt watch movies or go out past 8pm on school nights. She couldnt even do sleep overs as a kid. We have talked how we would be as parents. I told her we can talk all we want but once it happens we will change. I would like to be more open with my kids. My wife doesnt want our kids to have any type of lifestyle that she had. She is only a year away from being the 1st with a college education in her family. two years ago she was the first in her family to ever own a home. She is the first to leave the country and 1st to ever go on a vacation where the moving van didnt follow them. We all grew up in different households.

[TXrose]

This shows us that we all have different view on this. This doesnt mean anyone of us bad parent

Your right there!! I know I found with my kids we didn't make pat decisions until we saw their personalities. What one might be able to handle another might not. Spanking was the norm when I grew up, it was not out of the ordinary if you did something really bad to get the belt. My kids would have rather get a spanking then for me to take something away from them, some people thought I was awful for not spanking them, but it didn't work because they would rather have the quick punishment and no real consequences.

I grew up in the time of hanging out under the street light, but everyone was usually in by 10 pm on weekends and dark on school nights, that's just the way it was. Movies didn't come out every weekend so we didn't run to the movies as often as kids want to now. We didn't have a lot of "Stuff" either, there wasn't a lot of "Stuff" to have. No cable, no satillite, no internet. But we were able to have fun anyway. We didn't have to hang out all night to have fun..

Kids didn't roam the street at 2 AM when I grew up, they were all at home in bed. But had I not given a curfew to one of mine, he would have been out all night long and never come home. The others, well, they come home at a decent hour so no curfew is required.