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August 13, 2022
Turn it off about an hour in...
Wow, what a mess. Not even sure where to begin with this one. It starts off fine, like an Indiana Jones knock-off, but then it just becomes weird and overly complicated. My kids checked out before the end, they were just bored to tears. The first half was genuinely funny but the second half doesn't have one laugh. It's really mystifying, almost like the 2 halves were made by completely different people. About halfway through, one character comes out as gay for seemingly no reason, there's a snake-man, a bee-man, a tree-man and, I think, a mud-man for no other reason than to be more like one of the Pirates movies, Emily Blunt's heavily caked makeup is distracting in every scene, and the special effects are downright awful with not one genuinely believable animal (all of the animals are CGI). The only objectionable stuff is some innuendo which wasn't funny at all and kind of cringe. My kids ended up hating it and so did I.
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August 5, 2022
Exciting and unpredictable from start to finish
I told my daughter as little as possible about this before we watched it (I had already seen it and deemed it completely appropriate) and I was glad I did. Seeing her reactions to all of the twists and turns was a real delight. Truly, I don't think there has been a movie this unpredictable and just flat-out fun as this one in a long time. There's a little stuff about pregnancy and a baby conceived during an affair, some language here and there and a brief couple of shots (about 2 seconds worth) of S&M but that's about it. Exciting from start to finish and perfectly fine for 12 and up or more mature 11 year olds.
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July 21, 2022
It's ok but things pick up in the next movie
It was fine but really nothing more. My kids were kind of bored and they still like the first one the best. Like some others have said, there are a LOT of lesbian kissing scenes for some reason. After a little while it just became ridiculous and funny. The thing some parents should be aware of, and I haven't seen anyone else mention it, is that there's a scene where Dom and Brian are talking about believing a lie and Dom asks Brian "You still put milk and cookies out for Santa Claus?" It may go right over kids heads but just be aware that it's there.
In my edit for my kids (11 and 8), I removed a lot of the language, the lesbian scenes and the line about Santa. It only totaled about 1 minute of screen time.
August 13, 2022
Action packed with a good message
My 8 year old son had been asking about Rambo (I have the First Blood poster in our home theater) so I decided to let him watch the first one knowing that there was no sexual content and the violence wasn't all that bloody (He's more mature than I was at his age). He loved it and was really excited almost all the way through it. Then the ending with Stallone's speech happened and he said "I feel so bad for him. Why didn't anybody help him?" When a movie can hit like that with an 8 year old, you know you've done something right. I highly recommend this one, it's different and deeper than other action movies of the same kind. And that ending really packs a wallop.