appropriate?


i haven't seen the movie but someone told me it was very inapropriate? I was just wondering is it true? i have seen bits and pieces of it and there doesn't seem to be anything inapropriate. can anyone help me out on this one?

reply

I guess it depends on what you mean by inappropriate, which is subjective. After all, I'm sure there are people out there who would find it offensive that a ship is called "The Magic Christian." It also has men in drag, a panther devouring dogs, Raquel Welch as an S&M afficionado, and people jumping into offal for money, not to mention the fact that it skewers people in positions of power, like the police and upper class individuals, among others. If you find any of that offensive, this is not the movie for you, if only for that reason. (There are the small issues of the arguable lack of a cohesive plot and, in my opinion, not enough truly hilarious moments, but those are subjects for abother post.)

I'll be your number one with a bullet, a loaded GOD complex, cock it and pull it.

reply

There were some pretty racist undertones going on in The Magic Christian. I find them funny when viewed through a 1960's POV but today you'd be thrown out of making movies if you had someone going on about "damnable wog hemp" like they had in TMC.

reply

Some of the movie quotes don't look to be PG rated.... and what's all this about the topless girls?? Is it appropriate in that way, other than not necessarily being politicaly accustomed to everybody? One of the quotes mentions someone by the name of "Thorndike"..... Although, despite allllll of this, the movie is rated PG? Is that because of the year it came out and the rating system...or....what, here? Should it have gotten a higher rating than PG and could I watch it with, say, my Dad or something for our Friday night get-together without being embarrassed in front of my 12 year old daughter?

reply

appropriate? yes, all comentary contained within is appropriate. Suitable for a 12 year old? No.
I interpreted the racial content as intended to be anti-racist, although it is uncomfortably clumsy. (the black "mister universe" guy gets right up in the face of the racist at the night club show with a little grin)
The whole thing is a little groovy-hippy clumsy come to think of it, but worth a look. But not with your Dad and Daughter.

reply

Thankyou.

reply

I assumed he was rasict because black men gave him the horn, well that's how it looked on screen when Mr Universe was right by him, so being rasict meant he was somehow denying his sexuality?

"You're Only Supposed To Blow The Bloody Doors Off!"

reply

Rascist undertones? Maybe some of the characters being lampooned are rascists. But the movie being in any way rascist? Emphatically, no.

reply