To let a 13 year old watch the full monty

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The nudity doesn't especially concern me, it's what we have all got after all.
Would you let a 13 year old watch the full monty? I'm thinking more of if there are any unsuitable sexist attitudes in the film.

cally I always use common sense media, it's a great site and has genuine reviews from both adults and kids with their recommendations for what age they think something is suitable for, both films and tv programmes.

I probably watched worse at 13 but that's not necessarily a good thing...

However, the Full Monty just isn't very good. I don't remember it being funny, and the bits I thought were moving (the man going off to work every morning even though he had been made redundant) would be wasted on a 13 year old.

Metal, I use that one as well, although sometimes find that parents and kids views on what is age appropriate varies wildly. I like Imdb as the parental guide is just written as facts about the content. What level of sex, nudity, what swear words are used, what violence etc then make my own mind up based on everything.

This has reminded me that I watched an interview with the cast of traibspotting a few months ago, following the realease of the new one. I think it was the graham norton show and he asked Robert Carlyle if he knew that The Full Monty was going to be as sucesssful as it was when he made it and he said no he thought it was "a load of pish" he was dead serious.

It makes me look at the film a bit differently now knowing that the star thought it was rubbish while he was filming it! I have always loved it though. I might watch it if it's on tonight. What time and channel?

Common sense media says 15+, interesting a 13 year old gave it 16+

It's of an age they wouldn't understand. Unless you lived through that time and the devastation to peoples lives you wouldn't understand

Weird attitude to films set in the past. Do you only watch and enjoy films which directly correspond to your own personal history and circumstances? Or do you just have a very low opinion of 13 year olds?!

It's a great film Op. Nothing particularly offensive in it.

I can't remember what age dd was when I let her watch it, but she was definitely younger than 13.

I'd forgotten how much swearing there was in it, but I knew it was words that she'd heard at school and just told her that letting her watch the film didn't mean that it was ok for her to swear (which she probably did then and definitely does now, but not in front of me).

She thought it was really funny at that age so I should imagine a 13 year old would enjoy it.

I would say it's fine, the suicide isn't completely in your face i.e no slit wrists, overdoses etc. Lots of swearing but I don't shelter my kids from language they just know what is appropriate in some situations isn't appropriate in other situations. I can't get hung up on swearing.

One of my favourite films, I really love Robert Carlyle. DS2 has watched it with me when he was younger, he's 9 now. He thinks it's quite bittersweet.

It was one of my mum's favourite films (along with Brassed Off) but I have never seen it. Being a male heterosexual, a film about male strippers had no appeal for me and still hasn't. I haven't seen Brassed Off either.

It's not really about 'male strippers' though.

It's about the decline of heavy industry in the north, masculinity and identity and friendship.

Brassed Off is also an amazing film. More moving and raw than the full monty I'd say plus it has amazing music.

Shame you have missed out on two great films.

Being a male heterosexual, a film about male strippers had no appeal for me and still hasn't. I haven't seen Brassed Off either.

This place gets weirder.

I was schooled on films throughout my childhood. I had watched many classics including fatal attraction, casino, the godfather etc by the time I was 10. It never really did me any harm. Even the sex scenes in movies did not influence me. If anything they educated me. I was 18 when I lost my virginity. Clean criminal record and a good education. I think it depends on how mature your child is for certain films but I can't see any harm in The Full Monty. It's a great film (major crush on Robert Carlyle)

Yikes I watched Poltergeist at 13, not that my mum knew! I am pretty pragmatic about swearing and some nudity considering the content of music lyrics and videos nowadays and what secondary school kids hear on the bus but more sensitive issues depend on the child... sensitive vivid imagination DC did not see stuff as early as their more emotionally robust and very grounded no imagination at all sibling. That said they watch with us not alone.

Yes absolutely no problem.

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My 12yo dd told us to turn it off as it was "weird"

Watching it now with ds 13!! He loves it!!

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Being a male heterosexual, a film about male strippers had no appeal for me and still hasn't. I haven't seen Brassed Off either.

So that's why I couldn't take to Brokeback Mountain

If you think the film is main theme is male strippers you've totally missed the point - I presume you didn't actually see it?

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It's of an age they wouldn't understand. Unless you lived through that time and the devastation to peoples lives you wouldn't understand

So by that logic no-one would ever study history?

This website describes all the questionable behaviour which might offend.

www.screenit.com/movies/1997/the_full_monty.html

I was a student in Sheffield when it came out. Great film and captured a very real feeling in the city. If anything the language was cleaned up from real life! Good messages in it and helps raise awareness of the human cost of the decline in our industries.

I watched it at the cinema at that age (even though I think it was a 15). It's fine.

^It's of an age they wouldn't understand.
Unless you lived through that time and the devastation to peoples lives you wouldn't understand.^
Maybe as a piece of social and political history, if you stopped it and explained it all the time.

I was a 14 year old American when I saw it I don't think you can get farther removed, and I still enjoyed (and understood) it. The way I did Bed Knobs and Broomsticks despite never being a British evacuee. Dont you ever just watch films with your children without pausing for a lecture?

Being a male heterosexual, a film about male strippers had no appeal for me and still hasn't. I haven't seen Brassed Off either.

Um no one fancies them. That's the whole point. It's like saying straight women shouldn't see Calendar Girls 🤔 Your dick won't fall off and you won't catch the gay if you see it.

Op did he enjoy it? I'd have said definite yet to letting a thirteen year old watch but tbf, I don't remember the sexism being mentioned. So maybe I'd have had a quick glance at it first.

Amazing you have to even ask...