I watched about 5 minutes of this on the Starz Kids & Family channel, and during that 5 minutes, the film managed to squeeze in an absurd amount of gunfire, a thinly-veiled reference to drug usage, and the line "this is the most fun I've had in jail." This movie has no business being seen by children of any age: young ones are too likely to parrot the violence, and older ones would be offended by the complete stupidity of it.
shareThank goodness someone has taken the time to make mention of this. My puritanical family thanks you for your efforts!
shareLMAO!
Your post was *just* that little bit better than the first posters.. (who for some reason has only commented on this title and an semi-erotic tv-series..hmm, makes you think)!
Oh, and by the way: All Hail John Morghen! Great actor.
Thank you, KnatLouie!
I forgot I had commented on this until looking this film up this evening.
The OP is quite the absurdist, eh?
P.S.
Great to hear that you too are a fan of Giovanni Lombardo Radice.
Very few get the reference.
Haha, yeah I haven't quite figured out if the OP was just joking, pretending to be a puritanical moralist, or actually *was* one... but still a funny post, either way.
Indeed, Radice/Morghen is a very underrated actor, not getting enough credit for his fantastic performances in Cannibal Ferox, City of the Living Dead, Stagefright, Cannibal Apocalypse, and House on the Edge of the Park! I wish more of his films were available (in good releases, mind you)... but I'm still waiting.
Oh, by the way... I'm looking forward to seeing Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn get a proper release on DVD too! I still have my old VHS (and a copy on betamax, I kid you not ;) still waiting to be replaced by a proper release.. but alas, those damn lazy executives don't give a rats ass about it.. :(
Agreed on all points, although I do believe the OP was probably serious in their intent.
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Umm you are aware that kids movies before the the 2000 were a little on the raunchy side with a bit of cursing. Little monsters from 1989 was rated PG and it had cursing in it and a scene where howie mandel urinated in a kids apple juice and then we see the kid drink it. I believe Goonies was PG and there was cursing in that one and guns and dead bodies. People have just become pussified when it comes to what our children watch. Why was it ok a few years back but now it's poisoning our youth. Get over it.
shareWell, if your 'kids' are parroting the violence of Laurel and Hardy shorts, it's a sign that kids today are stupider than kids of previous generations. First off, kids who watched films like L&H, or even The Three Stooges, in the 1950's and '60's didn't grow up to be violent thugs, sending each other to the hospital with boards and hammers being beaten over their heads, or teeth knocked out from slaps in the face.
On the other hand, the amount of violence in today's society is enormous, especially in the lower income and ghetto neighborhoods, and most of today's kids and youth have no idea who Laurel and Hardy were, much less the Stooges. Much less nearly all of the "violent" cartoons which were aired daily during the 1950's and 1960's, whether Bugs was hitting Elmer with a rake, Porky was smacking Daffy with a pie, or roadrunner was causing coyote to run into an anvil. On the other hand, they get full plates of violence in thousands of action movies and television crime dramas.
Would that kids today saw more Laurel and Hardy and less Batman or CSI. And don't even get me started on so-called "sitcoms", replete with smutty, rude and crude double entendres. (Tall guy walks in and introduce himself as Dick. "Well, you're the biggest Dick I've ever seen!" says the office worker. Audience laughs like hell; and your kid picks up on the smut.) I'll take L&H, any day of the week.