Age Appropriate Movies (opinions please)
Am I being a prude or are there no age appropriate movies out there at the moment?
Over the holidays I took my 6&10 yo DD and one of their friends to see 17 Again. The whole cinema was full of girls my DD ages. It was marketed as being a movie about a dad who regressed back to a 17 year old and ended up back at high school with his kids. It had Zac Efron (the reason for going to see it :rolleyes:) in it and I just assumed it would be similar to Freaky Friday.
I was wrong! It was about a 17 year old who got his gf pregnant in high school and had always felt like he'd missed out on his life becuase of it. He was divorcing his wife (the gf from HS) and was turned into a teenager to live his 17th year again. So he ends up in high school with his 2 kids, the daughter is going a bit off the rails and has a bad boy boyfriend and the son was a geek. In one scene the class were in a sex ed class where the teacher was handing out condoms. The daughters BF was grabbing hands full of them and joking about that being just enough for the weekend while winking and smirking at the daughter. It was quite an amusing scene really BUT not appropriate for a 6&10 year old. IMO of course. The rest of the movie was pretty much the same. I quite enjoyed it and had a bit of a blubber at the end. I just don't thik it was at all appropriate for the age group it was marketed at.
A friend of mine suggested I get a movie called The House Bunny because her 7yo daughter loves it. It's about a Playboy Bunny who gets kicked out of the PB mansion and goes to live at a college sorority house as a house mother. It sounded like quite a cute movie so I got it. I watched it before showing my girls, thankfully. The Playboy Bunny (basically) ends up at a sorority house with a bunch of geeky girls so she makes it her mission to 'make them look sexy' so boys will like them. So, the whole movie revolves around her 'sexing' them up, boys ogling both her and the 'sexy' nerdy girls and her being a complete dunce really.
Friends of mine have no problems letting their kdis watch any movie, I feel like such a prude but I just don't want my girls to think about looking sexy or having sex at their ages.
Do you let your daughters watch this type of movie? Am I being a prude for not allowing it? Should I just lighten up??