Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Kids-In-Mind.com

Tonight, Ali told me about this website: kids-in-motion.com...
It rates movies on a scale from one to ten in three categories:
Sex/Nudity, Violence/Gore, Profanity.
It lists each of the offenses in these categories (including counting each of the curse words and 'name-calling').

We looked up a few movies and made a list of our favorite bits.
(Juno is my favorite--I saved it until the end)

Alvin & the Chipmunks:
Sex/Nudity
-- A man opens a dishwasher and finds a chipmunk bathing; it covers its privates and screams. We see three line drawings of chipmunks' buttocks.
-- A man hugs a woman and she tells him to let go.


Violence/Gore
-- Someone cuts down a tree where three chipmunks are dwelling; the tree falls down with the chipmunks in it and it is then set up in the lobby of an office building.

Substance Use
-- People drink alcohol at a party, and a man and a woman drink wine with dinner. Chipmunks drink coffee and show the effects of caffeine.

Sweeney Todd:
Sex/Nudity
-- Women wear low-cut dresses that reveal deep cleavage in many scenes.

-- A man kisses a woman. A woman kisses a man on the cheek

-- People throughout the movie appear dirty and unkempt, and one woman who appears to live on the street has sores around her mouth and on her face.

Message
-- Revenge is not always the answer to pain. 19th century London was an awful place

Enchanted:
Sex/Nudity
-- A man and a woman hug in a few scenes. A woman kisses a turtle on the cheek and the turtle blushes.

-- A woman talks about searching for a perfect pair of lips (for a prince replica she has built) and tries different items, including a pea pod and a caterpillar.

Violence
-- A man and a chipmunk jump into a bottomless well (they are unhurt)

Juno:
Sex/Nudity
-- A young man is shown in running shorts in several scenes (bare legs to the thigh).

Violence/Gore
-- A teenage girl vomits into an urn. A woman asks a teenage girl if she vomited into a decorative urn.

Profanity

-- name-calling (jock, jerk, stupid, nerds, squares, stink eye).

10 comments:

Heather McTaggart said...

I used this site last night to check out a movie before we decided if we would take the kiddo's as a family or just let the teens go! JUNO...will ONLY be seen by the teens and NOT the 7 year old! HA HA!

Jessica Torres said...

Ha Ha, I love the "stink eye"!

Allison Murray said...

haha.
Violence
-- A man and a chipmunk jump into a bottomless well (they are unhurt)
that got me good.

kayla rae said...

Haha, running shorts are so inappropriate;
William Hibbard must be rated R (:

The Maguires said...

Thanks for the warning. I will not subject myself to caffeine, vomit, or bare thighs. The filth out there...its pure crap!

Terrace Crawford said...

Thanks for the website recommend. Never heard of that.

//TC//

Erin Brady said...

Oh wow, Ali and I spent about 20 minutes one day searching all the movies that came to our mind. It's knd of hilarious if you ask me. Jeez, paranoid mothers, much?

My favorite is as follows:
Sex/Nudity
-- A young man is shown in running shorts in several scenes (bare legs to the thigh).

NO! Bare legs to the thigh. Oh, no. No, No.

sunshine said...

the best thing ever! oh wow. i really do like you. and i miss you a lot.

Bethany said...

I didn't realize that caffine was considered "Substance Use"! I think I need to go turn myself in to Rick Warren and join Celebrate Recovery!

Heather Leith said...

oh, my parents are obsessed with this site.

but its the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen.

(oh, and it's kids in MIND, not motion. hah)