Saturday, November 22, 2003

I've been greatly concerned for the last several months regarding the now-released Cat in the Hat movie. My concerns grew from the commercials and promos that seemed rather adult for a movie ostensibly targeting kids below 10. The worst offense was the promos that showed the Cat, aka Mike Myers, grabbing a photograph of the kids' mother off the coffeetable and expressing great adult exhiliration towards the mother and magically making the picture drop into a centerfold-type photograph. The kids then say that it's a picture of their mother and the Cat then says "Awkward." Well, I guess that's supposed to be funny and it's obviously in the commercials to entice people for its humor, but I find that scene and others that I've seen on the promos real offensive-- since this movie is targeting the younger market. Obviously the market for Dr. Seuss is the under 10 audience, unless they're trying to market the movie to adults, which is not the case with this promotion. So for a movie targeting 10 year olds, there should not be that type of adult promotion and adult humor, and that's what I find distressing about the whole movie. Now, granted, I have not seen the movie, nor do I plan to since it has totally turned me off, but I have great concerns about what I've seen in the promos, and I have read the reviews where they blast it for the same adult-humor-marketed-towards-kids concerns. Kids do like gross-humor and other things to make fun of adults and such, but there is a line for these things, and this movie has crossed it with me.

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