jonny5
Sr Member
I've made rants like this before but the search couldn't locate one to which I could append this latest opinion of the day.
I have 8 kids, so I've seen a lot of kids movies. Either for birthday parties, holidays, or just something to do on a summer day.
On Monday April 25th I took the family to see Rio.
Family movie. Currently on top of the Box Office.
Nice movie. Two thumbs up. No breakthrough use of 3D here but a good story. I enjoyed it, and will probably buy the DVD.
So we are settling in to watch RIO with our popcorn and sodas, the theatre darkens, and what do we get? Trailers loaded with bathroom humor. Seriously, not ONE trailer shown before the film did NOT include some sort of fart joke!
We chose not to see the Easter themed 'HOP' because the trailer features gross out jokes about jellybeans being rabbit poop, and mind you, I really like Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Kaley Couco (Big Bang Theory). I fear this movie will do for jellybeans what Jaws did for beaches.
This sort of thing has been a turn off for me since the talking pig movie BABE (1995) in it's trailer quoting the only rude thing the cute little pig says in the whole movie "Get outta here ya butt heads" which is said to some sheep, after advice from a mean old sheepdog, but the trailer did not show that he was immediately rebuked for the rude behavior, and contritely appologised.
This is an amazing thing to me that children's movies (and RIO seems to be the sole exception here) cannot be marketed without some sort of purille bathroom humor.
Easily 10% of the trailer for CARS 2 is a drawn out scene about Mater having trouble using the overly fancy japanese electronic toilet. Now I am aware that there were adult diaper sponsor references in the 1st movie. I just don't recall them being pointed out in the trailer.
The trailer for Hoodwinked 2 has a gas mask scene in an elevator where two characters think they are smelling farts before passing out from green knockout gas. Then we see the Granny character do the matrix-like acrobatic routine through the laser security beams. Can we be allowed for just one second think hey this old bird is really awesome? Nope its gotta end with her farting. Incidentally this is a direct rip off of a scene featuring Ali Larter in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
The least offensive was Kung Fu Panda 2 which has an audible 'stomach growl' which KFP blames on his fist 'hungering for justice'.
Now I ask you between the 'Easter bunny poop movie', or one about a little lost birdie... which is at the top of the box office at the end of Easter weekend, and which has a huge pile of unsold deeply discounted merchandise covering several tables at the front of my local Walmart?
True in 4 weeks HOP has earned 3 times what it cost to make, while after 2 weeks RIO is still $10M short of its ROI, but RIO is also only $20M behind HOP in total Box Office.
Why can't Hollywoood make more children's movies like RIO? Yea Fox! These are also the poeple responsible for the Ice Age films.
I have 8 kids, so I've seen a lot of kids movies. Either for birthday parties, holidays, or just something to do on a summer day.
On Monday April 25th I took the family to see Rio.
Family movie. Currently on top of the Box Office.
Nice movie. Two thumbs up. No breakthrough use of 3D here but a good story. I enjoyed it, and will probably buy the DVD.
So we are settling in to watch RIO with our popcorn and sodas, the theatre darkens, and what do we get? Trailers loaded with bathroom humor. Seriously, not ONE trailer shown before the film did NOT include some sort of fart joke!
We chose not to see the Easter themed 'HOP' because the trailer features gross out jokes about jellybeans being rabbit poop, and mind you, I really like Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Kaley Couco (Big Bang Theory). I fear this movie will do for jellybeans what Jaws did for beaches.
This sort of thing has been a turn off for me since the talking pig movie BABE (1995) in it's trailer quoting the only rude thing the cute little pig says in the whole movie "Get outta here ya butt heads" which is said to some sheep, after advice from a mean old sheepdog, but the trailer did not show that he was immediately rebuked for the rude behavior, and contritely appologised.
This is an amazing thing to me that children's movies (and RIO seems to be the sole exception here) cannot be marketed without some sort of purille bathroom humor.
Easily 10% of the trailer for CARS 2 is a drawn out scene about Mater having trouble using the overly fancy japanese electronic toilet. Now I am aware that there were adult diaper sponsor references in the 1st movie. I just don't recall them being pointed out in the trailer.
The trailer for Hoodwinked 2 has a gas mask scene in an elevator where two characters think they are smelling farts before passing out from green knockout gas. Then we see the Granny character do the matrix-like acrobatic routine through the laser security beams. Can we be allowed for just one second think hey this old bird is really awesome? Nope its gotta end with her farting. Incidentally this is a direct rip off of a scene featuring Ali Larter in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
The least offensive was Kung Fu Panda 2 which has an audible 'stomach growl' which KFP blames on his fist 'hungering for justice'.
Now I ask you between the 'Easter bunny poop movie', or one about a little lost birdie... which is at the top of the box office at the end of Easter weekend, and which has a huge pile of unsold deeply discounted merchandise covering several tables at the front of my local Walmart?
True in 4 weeks HOP has earned 3 times what it cost to make, while after 2 weeks RIO is still $10M short of its ROI, but RIO is also only $20M behind HOP in total Box Office.
Why can't Hollywoood make more children's movies like RIO? Yea Fox! These are also the poeple responsible for the Ice Age films.
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