I love movies.  I have a confession, when we didn’t have kids and had more money than we had sense, we used to go see movies every weekend.  Sometimes even 2 a night.  We were money wasters <shocked face>.  Now that we have to really watch every penny, movies are out for the most part.  We download movies and watch them on our laptops – totally legal and almost free.

But I recently got the opportunity to watch Open Season 2 and to tell you what I thought.  So here is my honest opinion.  I thought the movie was cute and relatively clean.  It wasn’t a movie that I would let my kids watch once they reach the age of understanding adult humor.  Sometimes, it was funny for adults but not for kids that you are trying to teach appropriate humor.

I realize some of you will think I am prudent but that is ok.  I want to protect my kids’ innocence as long as I can.  So for teenagers and adults, it’s a great movie, perfect for sleepovers and kid friendly activities.  I laughed several times and that is hard to get me to do.

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I just found out about a site called Kids-In-Mind.  This site gives parents the skinny on what’s going on in a movie.  Each movie receives a rating of 1-10 in the areas of sex, violence, and profanity.  Very detailed information is given, including which profane words were used, what the actors were wearing, if there is any name-calling, and more.  I was pretty impressed with the specifics for the reviews.

Here is a snippet from the review for “Miss Potter”:

SEX/NUDITY 2 – A man and a woman kiss, a man and a woman dance together, and a man touches a woman’s hand tenderly.
► Women wear low-cut dresses at a party.
► A man and a woman are left alone in her room when their chaperone falls asleep. A woman talks about her daughter not being able to attract a man to marry.

The purpose of Kids-In-Mind is to provide adults with complete information about a movie’s content so that they can decide, based upon their own value system, whether or not they want to see the movie or show it to their children. 

I give Kids-In-Mind a thumbs up!  Another good site for movie and music reviews is Plugged In Online.  Both sites are offered for free.  For as little as $12/year you can subscribe to Kids-In-Mind and receive advance reviews without the ads.

Thanks to Goody blog for the tip!

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