April 26, 2004
Cheaper By The Dozen
My wife and I rented Cheaper By The Dozen with Steve Martin this last weekend. We had heard good things about it, and we wanted to see if it was something we could sit the family down in front of.
I do not recommend this movie for your family. It's fine for the parents, but not for the kids. While the movie was, overall, enjoyable, and at times hillarious, it was still very secular in it's view on certain moral issues.
There is a scene where the parents are discussing their oldest daughter and how she is living with her boyfriend. The dad isn't pleased about this, but the mom defends this as the daughter just trying to live her life. (Buzz: wrong answer) Not a good message for the kids.
After the family has had their 11th kids, the dad goes and gets a vasectomy. They explain that the procedure doesn't take effect right away which results in their 12 child. Vasectomy (Buzz: wrong answer.) Not a good message for your kids.
There is a scene where the oldest daughter and her boyfriend start making out on the sofa right in front of the parents. It is, in my view, a rather erotic scene. Not really good for the children nor the parents. Fast forward this or look away.
The kids are very sassy towards their parents. (Buzz: wrong answer.) Not a good message for the kids.
So, I think the list above is enough to scratch this off the family movie list.
There were definitely some positive messages in the movie. The Chicago neighbors only had 1 kid and were portrayed as being the odd balls rather than the family of 12 being odd. Cool message.
Living a simple life rather than going for the gusto was portrayed positively in this movie as both the husband and wife find that as their career ambitions begin to materialize, life gets very complicated. Cool message.
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