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.

Yes definitely.

Being a male heterosexual, a film about male strippers had no appeal for me and still hasn't.

That's why I wouldn't take my daughters to see Finding Dory - I told them "We are not clownfish, therefore this film has no appeal for us."

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.

Funny is obviously a matter of preference, but I was 12 or 13 when I first watched it and was also quite moved by the redundancy plotline. A few of us went to see it and discussed it all afterwards, and that was one of the topics.

To be honest the thing that's changed most is that they all smoke so much! May be quite hard for a noughties child to relate to.

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I'd let DD 9 watch it, DH can't always control his swearing, but DD knows not to repeat it, she can cope well with difficult subjects like suicide, there's worse in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which she's read, she definitely wouldn't understand arsenal have a terrible offside trap! 😂

wish i had known this was on tv last night, only caught the last half an hour.
love this film

Given the number of regular posters who would LTB with no second chances if their DPs ever once went to a strip show, I'm interested that no one has questioned its morality!

On topic, I think 13 yo is about right...

FloControl I saw the Full Monty on a date with - - a male heterosexual! He laughed as much as me.

This made me think of how strict my parents were I wasn't even aloud to watch the full Monty when it came out and I was 15. I was also not aloud to watch Wayne's world even though I was old enough and all my friends had seen it. They where really anti me or my sister watching anything with sexual references or nudity. Funny how they didn't bat an eyelid at my brother watching 18s from the age of 10.

As for the full Monty if I had known it was on I would have watched it with my dd who's 12 but I'm much more relaxed with her and decide on a film by film basis.

When the film came out I was 13, and I watched it on VHS.
Would consider letting DSS, who is almost 10, watch it. He watches TV and films with his dad with worse swearing in. We do avoid stuff with sex scenes, violence, gore and scary stuff though. I think he would quickly get bored with the Full Month though.
The only sketchy bit of that film for an older child is when Gerald discusses getting a 'stiffy', I'm not sure whether a 9 year old would understand that.
I'm probably being really naive lol, I never had brothers and I don't know what age they give 'the talk' at school nowadays.
He still believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny until 6 months ago, so I always think of him as quite innocent.

Sexist attitudes - the male workers have been made unemployed in a traditional male industry - and are struggling to find work. His ex wife offers him work - but it's "women's work". The manager type seeing his role as provider going but still pretending to go to work.

The relationship between separated parents.

Using their bodies as a way to make money.

Lots to discuss - but would a 13 yr old want to discuss that?

I thought it was a certificate 12, in which case surely nobody can object?

It's a fab film. Watch and enjoy together. Pretty sure I was about that age when I first saw it!

Oh and hahahaha at the comment above rethe Arsenal offside trap joke no longer working..... best comment of the day! 😂

Being a male heterosexual, a film about male strippers had no appeal for me

Oh dear, dh and I have watched and enjoyed this film several times. Maybe he's secretly gay? Thanks for the heads up. Obviously I should LTB.

Being a male heterosexual, a film about male strippers had no appeal for me

Oh dear, dh and I have watched and enjoyed this film several times. Maybe he's secretly gay? Thanks for the heads up. Obviously I should LTB.

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

Somehow I suspect the film would go over your head.

As would Brassed Off.

It's a film some MPs should watch. Especially Brassed Off. Too late now though.

Male strippers and brass bands are a vehicle to discuss some very serious issues affecting men - especially working class men.

It showed sexist attitudes because they were the prevailing attitudes of the day. Should have thought that would be a good way into discussing it with teens and why things should be are different today. I don't think they're likely to "catch" sexist attitudes from a film. If you can never expose your child to anything that doesn't tally with your point of view then we might as well be in North Korea.

Yeah I'd let a 13 year old watch it, I was younger than that when I watched it on video!

And here I though the sexist attitudes were because we think male strippers are "funny" and "charming" (ok I did think this movie was charming) or empowering and sexy (magic mike) but can't think of one female stripper movie where the prevailing theme would ever be the same in this society.

Not sure this can be compared to a female stripper movie Dustbunny. The stripping is a means to an end rather than something that's seen all through the film, the actual stripping is a very small part of the film.

Never actually watched a film about female strippers, so I'm probably not qualified to comment, but I sort of imagine most of them focus on the stripping a good deal and showing as much female flesh as possible whilst at the same time keeping some sort of plot going.

Yes pigs, most of them are just like that, while st the same time trying to moralize as they show their main characters as nothing but walking ass and boobs.
I love full mony and the men are shown as real individuals with character development