Don't let your daughters watch this...

See? This is why you are alone and unloved (waiting for the BS response that you're happily married).

I've seen this movie several times with my two girls and son, and because they are bright and intelligent and taught to look at BOTH sides of any problem or situation, they enjoyed the movie and were somehow able to understand that 1850s wilderness West is not how we live today. No explanation needed.

I also haven't had to explain to them that Superman can't really fly or Marty McFly didn't really go back in time in a DeLorean.


You also missed the part where men were portrayed as bumbling egotistical disgusting pigs with no manners. Typical misandry portrayal of how it always takes a woman to "fix" a man..

I'm usually not the one to get on hyperbolic soapboxes and rail against films that are allegedly "anti-woman" or whatever, I'm usually the first one to go "Oh everyone just calm down and quit over-analyzing every little thing about [insert movie title here] already"...

...but even I have to back off on this one, like "...okay, ya'll got this one. Yeah this is actually kinda messed up. Like, wowwwww did ya'll just go for it."

I mean I guess I can KIND OF see what they were going for, but just the set-up alone is one big WTF that just hangs over this entire movie and is something I couldn't shake no matter how hard I tried. Say what you will about the much maligned early Disney Princesses like Snow White; not even Snow White was portrayed THIS badly. (I bring SW up because that's who Milly reminds of, and the brothers are supposed to be the 7 dwarves that she teaches what-for.) And honestly I can't by the "well think of the context of the movie" argument either. I understood the context of something like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and got what they were trying to do so it wasn't a problem for me. But even Little House On The Prairie gave their characters SOME kind of extra dimension that made them interesting and fleshed out; SBFSB's characters don't. The brothers and the brides don't have any real character, they're all practically interchangable and change on the drop of the hat for plot convenience, and the two leads aren't any better. Again, I can't even buy the reason they're together in the FIRST PLACE, so I can't buy whatever arc they're supposed to have either. This movie's scope is just too limited for the story it's trying to tell (ironic since this was presented in Cinemaaaaaascopppppe).

Nice try movie, but....no....you can't make something like The Rape Of The Sabine Women cutesy and charming no matter how many impressive dance numbers you put into it, movie, you just can't...

All I can think of is how people would completely freak out if this movie was remade in today's environment. 

Don't be so dramatic. I've watched horror most of my life and I'm not a raving psychopathic murderer.

You may as well say Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are not to be watched by children. It's fiction, created over 50 years ago so it's out of a completely different time, I'm sure everyone who watches it would understand that.

I suggest you teach your daughters to not not believe everything they see and hear and to be whoever they want to be, then you will have nothing to worry about.

Yeah, it's called a MOVIE. Since when are movies real??? I think you're confusing this with what's called a Documentary. :/

This film is NOT to be taken seriously. It is simply a fun and entertaining satirical look at male/female relationships. It does not condone men stealing brides. Some points to ponder. Millie, the voice of civilized society, condemns the brothers. Millie chaperones the girls and insures that nothing intoward happens during the long winter. It is the girls who choose to marry the brothers, not because they feel that they must marry in order to be fulfilled, but because they've fallen in love with them. Do people even really pay attention to what they watch?

In 1954, people were sophisticated enough to realize it was just a musical comedy and was not meant to be taken seriously. Even children knew this.

They'll turn out Republicans.