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Shrek 2, sexy and bloody???

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Demented · 09/11/2004 10:58

Being big fans of Shrek I decided to buy Shrek 2 rather than rent it at the weekend (didn't get round to seeing it at the cinema) and while I love it as much if not more than the first one I am concerned at the language.

The film has a "U" rating and I would not have expected to hear the words "sexy" or "bloody" used in it. I now have DS1 going around singing "I'm to sexy for my shirt" and talking about his "tush" (not IMO appropriate either).

I think the film is brilliantly put together and love the fact that it appeals to adults as well as children but feel it should have had a PG rating or even better not have had these words in it.

Just a rant really!

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nutcracker · 09/11/2004 11:02

Hmmm have to say i didn't really notice. My kids have only watched it once and then went back to watching the first one over and over again as they think it's better.

NomDePlume · 09/11/2004 11:11

Demented, we bought Shrek 2 several months ago (a friend bought it back from the US as we have a region free DVD player). I have to agree that I didn't think it was half as suitable for kiddies as the U rating suggests. I was a bit taken aback by the fairy godmother using 'bloody' and was frankly, amazed that it got past the BBFC as a U. I do agree that it should have either been changed to a PG rating or the unsuitable language should have simply been omitted from the script.

Wallace · 09/11/2004 12:33

Maybe I'm easily shocked but I think the bit in Shrek where they blow up a frog and a snake to make balloons is awful!

I do think they are great films but I think there should be a rating between U and PG, and then U films could really be "suitable for all" and not have scary bits, etc. What do you think?

Gobbledigook · 09/11/2004 12:35

What's the rating on Nemo? My ds1 (3.5) won't watch it because of the sharks and when he did manage to watch it a few weeks ago, it made him all emotional and start crying!!

enid · 09/11/2004 13:06

I agree. Didnt mind sexy but was cross about bloody.

Hausfrau · 09/11/2004 13:09

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marialuisa · 09/11/2004 13:26

what does it say for us as parents that we hadn't even noticed those words? That said we've had to make such heroic attempts to cut back our own swearing that "bloody" doesn't even count in our house.

Angeliz · 09/11/2004 13:46

I actually watched it yesterday with dd and noticed this too.
I didn't mind the bloody so much as dd just looked at me shocked and she knows it's a naughty word but i hate the sexy bit. (Have to admit it is one of my pet hates, that word when used in jest with kids! eargh!)

Sozie · 09/11/2004 13:55

DD has Barbie's Princess and the Pauper dvd which is also a U cert. Last week I was shocked to hear dd calling ds a lazy cow - when asked what she was saying she said it was in the barbie dvd and it was !!

lunavix · 09/11/2004 14:12

Gobbledigook - I was stunned at Finding Nemo, I thought the scenes with the sharks (especially the opening scene) were really scary...

ponygirl · 09/11/2004 14:20

My children haven't noticed 'sexy' but we did notice 'bloody'! In fact, is triggered a conversation at pre-school as to whether 'bloody' is actually considered a swear word any more. I thought it was, albeit a mild one, but was amazed to hear it in a film for this age group. We'd noticed the Bloody Baron, but I'd explained that as a diffent meaning - he is at least covered in blood!

enid · 09/11/2004 14:22

Gobbledigook, both dds (4 and 18 months at the time) were horrified by Finding Nemo. dd1 likes it now though (nearly 5). But they are both a bit wet.

Grommit · 09/11/2004 14:34

DDd (4) kept saying she was "really saxy" after seeing this - I asked her what "saxy" meant and she said it means you turn into a horse!!

Catbert · 09/11/2004 14:58

A word is still a swear word if it sounds inappropriate coming out of a child IMO. Don't think there's many who would think it was OK for their small or older children to go around saying, I'm bloody tired, my arse, bugger that, etc - even if after a while you don't notice it in adult speak...

I wasn't even watching it with my DD and noticed and thought "eh?". AND did you know the part of the FG was played by Joan Rivers in the American version of Shrek2 - so it must have been passed by british censors cause technically it's a different version of the film?

Americans often get away with phrases like bollocks, wanker and bloody on their telly, cause they are very rare phrases and noone even knows what they mean ("wanker" was even used on The Simpsons, and Friends, as I discovered the other night whilst watching a quiz show!!!)

Bibiboo · 09/11/2004 15:08

Dh is a primary school teacher and was shocked to find that some U rated kids film they showed at the end of term had the word sh*t at the end. He teaches top end of primary, so chances are most of the children have heard it many times anyway, but it was a U as that's all they are allowed to play in his school and IMO shouldn't have been there.

SoupDragon · 09/11/2004 15:28

TheUS DVD has Jennifer Saunders as the Fairy Godmother, not Joan Rivers.

ernest · 09/11/2004 15:57

I didn't notice the 'sexy' but was surprised at the 'bloody', but tbh thought it was funny & exchanged 'naughty' looks with dh over the children's heads (naughty, as in, aren't we naughty for sometimes saying that, not 'sexy' looks, you understand. Anyway, they should have left it out, but I thought it was great

WideWebWitch · 09/11/2004 20:08

Didn't bother me. The word Sexy used to bother me but actually can't get worked up about either of them now.

paolosgirl · 09/11/2004 20:14

I didn't notice either, tbh. Bad mummy...
It might explain why the kids are going round saying "I'm sexy" - I just thought it was something they'd heard at school

Wallace · 09/11/2004 20:43

I was mentally tutting at a mother because her son was going round saying things like "squeeze the jelly from your eyeballs" I was wondering what on earth she was letting him watch...then I realised it was from Shrek

Catbert · 09/11/2004 21:04

Soupdragon... doh - I read it somewhere! I can't remember where now. Ah well - shows how wrong you can be!

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Demented · 09/11/2004 22:28

DS1 started dancing in front of a very posh boy and his mother after his swimming lesson and singing "I'm too sexy for my shirt, to sexy for my shirt" then a break because he couldn't remember the words followed by "shake my little tush". I was horrified, the mother didn't even crack a smile, I was standing at the side very loudly saying "now, now what did we say, just because it's in Shrek doesn't mean you can say it", arrrrgh.

DS1's School seems to have chosen Shrek 2 as a theme and have loads of activities that centre around the characters in the film, colouring-in, role play etc.

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Tanzie · 09/11/2004 23:01

We saw Shrek 2 in the US and Jennifer Saunders was definitely F.Godmo

KateandtheGirls · 09/11/2004 23:11

My kids are watching Shrek 2 as I type this...

I think Catbert hit the nail on the head, in that the Fairy Godmother is allowed to say "bloody" because it isn't a swear word here. I think here it's considered a cute Britishism.

The Fairy Godmother is played by Jennifer Saunders. Joan Rivers appears playing herself doing the commentary on the red carpet (which she really does here for the Oscars/Emmys etc.).

I hadn't thought about the "I'm too sexy" part. To be honest my kids haven't seen the Far Far Away Idol section of the DVD. If they did they might sing it, but would have no idea what it means.

In the US it does have a PG rating, as do almost all kids' movies. It's very rare that one has a G (general) rating - the equivalent to a U. I agree, that it should have been PG in the UK too.

Finally, I LOVE both the movies. They're hilarious.

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