Cursing?

Okay, first of all, "overall good movie" is cursing this movie itself to my ears and heart. Second, don't be such a prude. If you don't like a beautiful movie with a few comparatively mild expletives to what 80 percent of kids hear at home, than just choose a different movie. How To Train Your Dragon, The Lion King, Aladdin, Spirited Away, so many wonderful choices with no curse words. I saw Simba's father die when I was 4 and a half and I thought he was sleeping, so the chances of a four or five interspersed profane words shouldn't have lasting damage on a child, when pretty brief and the main focus will be Hogarth and the Giant. Also, thirdly I suppose, why are you such a goody-goody? The Simpsons, Boondocks, South Park... Family Guy (the corruption!) , I was watching those shows when I was 9. Except Boondocks, I was like fourteen or fifteen then. My dear, Bebe, if you must be told what has been clearly known for years if you'd bother to google or pay attention, is that the creators don't talk down to kids.

Hogarth disobeys his mom, lies, gets chloroformed, is exposed to DEAR GOD, cursing! He's a smart kid who learns fast and adapts faster, like his great pal the Giant... well, mostly. He seemed a little hard to get over some of his later lessons. :( You can take this great movie for what it is or don't take it at all. I'm not putting up with blacklisting of this destructively underrated treasure. Go expose your little twerps to Veggie Tales and Barney, I'm sure they'll thank you when they turn out to be homely, stick-in-the-muds like a certain fine educator who bore them to blandness. Try watching effing Pocahontas 12 billion times and see if your imagination doesn't cry out in shame and pain. n

Whatever, kids are gonna pick up bad language no matter what, might as well be from a comparatively good and moralistic film like this. It's up to people themselves to raise the kids right and not have them substitute mentally astute wording for something as cheap and unimaginative as some stupid swear words.

As a parental figure in training, however, I'd be more interested in the decision to show TIG to two year olds. From my perspective it seems a bit too much of a mature and hyperkinetic film. This, I feel, may have more risky long-term effects, at least more than a word whose meaning they can hardly even comprehend.

I'm not a prude white-37. As far as the Simpsons or anything else goes, never felt the need to watch it. The fact you called my kids twerps shows that maybe you or maybe your parents should have been a bit more selective on what you watched. It's a parents job to be a "prude". It's not a bad film. I agree it isn't the right material for a younger audience.

You people really need to read my OP. Never said the cursing was going to send these kids to prison. Just asked what was the point of putting it in.

By the way, just because a child may it may not have heard these words and worse at home diesnt mean I have to contribute to it.

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OK, first, you must learn that your religion is your personal choice and to most people your God is not as valuable as He is to you. Personally, I thought the prayer was incredibly funny. Of course, I am not religious at all and I don't believe in any all powerful deity. However even most religious people that I know would just laugh at this scene. Needless to say, though, if you want, you can find something to feel offended about even in the most harmless movie out there.

Second, showing a movie that you haven't even checked out before to a group of two year old kids speaks volumes of your abilities as a parent. And it doesn't speak good of you at all. There is plenty of websites all over the Internet where you can find a detailed content advisory for almost every movie you can think about. Like this one:
http://www.kids-in-mind.com/i/irongiant99.htm
Honestly, if you did check the movie out prior to showing it to your kids you would know that it is in no way appropriate for a two year old. It has on screen killings, it has a strong anti-violence moral and it has way too many references that will go over any two year old's head.




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I think most kids can comprehend the idea of cursing and profanity if it's explained properly to them.