Film Screening 2

I also had the opportunity to take my daughter to seen Monsters vs. Aliens playing at the local dollar theater. This was another interesting movie. The movie begins off with a meteor hitting a girl causing the girl to become a giant and therefore is able to join other monsters and fight off the invading aliens. The idea behind the movie is very cute and again, my daughter loved the movie. There were again some sexual connotations added to the movie to supposedly keep parents attention, something that I found actually took away from the value of the movie. I know my daughter is only three years old, but children are getting smarter about those types of things and begin to understand it earlier than we expect. Therefore, adding sexual humor to movie only further corrupts the minds of our children. Of course, programs are far worse than the adult humor found in these children movies. There is a bit of soul searching as part of the movie. As the girl becomes a giant, she discovers her own individuality and her own set of capabilities. She discovers that her fiancé is a self-absorbed jerk, who is only marrying her to further his career. What I thought was interesting was the fact that she only noticed her fiancé was a jerk after she had turned into a giant and was able to defeat the aliens. I mean, everyone in the audience saw it. Why then could she not see in her own life? Is the movie trying to state that women need to have some short of soul finding moment in order to realize that their man is treating them bad? I know women are smarter and capable of discovering this without such an experience. I am sure I am looking to far into the movie and they had not intention of portraying this message, but this is one theme I got out of the movie.