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Don't Bring The Kids

DON'T BRING THE KIDS (2006)

Many newspapers carry movie reviews that are published especially for parents who want to know if films rated from "G" to "PG-13" have content that might be offensive or disturbing to children. Some of the reviewers, perhaps bored by the task, fashion rather colorful and graphic warnings. I have been collecting these items for a few years, and here are a bunch of them.

  • adulterous couple in bed, but not a sexual situation
  • all manner of nasty, bone crushing, eye-popping boa crunches
  • amusement park ride based on Jack The Ripper
  • babies stalked by scary leopard
  • baby about to have umbilical cord cut
  • bad guy shoots head off lifelike talking doll
  • blind ferret walks into walls
  • bobblehead dolls of Mother Theresa
  • character expires on toilet
  • colorectal humor
  • comically implied evening of group sex with hallucinogenic tea
  • corpse fed to vultures
  • crude gag involving cow hanging from helicopter
  • dead dog with screwdriver in its neck
  • discussion of how he put a lightbulb in his behind
  • doctors harvest organs from fleeing corpse
  • flatulent horseflies
  • gross scene in which a cellphone is retrieved from a cow’s behind
  • heavy, scrawny, homely characters filmed exploitatively
  • huge threatening mechanized thumbs
  • joke that someone’s testicles will fall off
  • kissing scene leads to preliminary undress, with implication that a sexual situation may follow
  • live chess pieces
  • moment in which a hurled corn-on-the-cob embeds in someone's eye socket
  • nasty diarrhea prank
  • nightmarishly bad daycare centers could scare tots
  • preserved fetus of indeterminate species
  • reindeer Comet has gas
  • snarling dog bites man in crotch
  • subplot about gay canines
  • talk of intestinal purges
  • touch of necrophilia
  • veterinarian helping impotent bull
  • vomiting by a teacher
  • one kid gets stretched out like taffy, another is swarmed by squirrels, another bloated into a giant blueberry — they all survive
  • flying witches with ravaged faces and talons, huge flying wolves, swarming bugs, looming crows, children abducted, later appearing drowned or in death-like trances, stabbings, shootings, attempted burnings (all in one movie!)

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