"“What could have been solely a fun movie for kids that would get my highest recommendation is damaged by a dark and disturbing message hidden, not so subtly between the fluffy dogs and glamorous parties of the show dog lifestyle. As part of any dog show, contestants are judged on their abilities and physical attributes. One part, in particular, is the inspection of the dog’s private parts.”
I tend to agree with the reviewer, requiring inspection of ones private parts as a part of a judged competition might not be appropriate in a movie where the target audience is less than 10 years old. You also must realize what For Every MOM.com is.
actually this movie is being condemned all across the internet
Yes dog show judges DO inspect the private areas. If whomever wrote the article bothered to do any reading herself, they do so to ensure the scrotum and testicles are uniform in size, that they are both there and that the male dog isn't a cryptochid. Most shows you have dogs with stellar blood lines and they want to pass on the best of the best. Sheesh. Now we have to further shelter our children?!
After reading the article, it seems the movie was overly focused on Max the dog having to submit to the examination. It's not a movie about how show dogs are judged.
Unless the script writer for that movie DOES have some personal issues or agenda, my guess is they never owned a dog, particularly a male one.
Male dogs aren't particularly shy about their private parts and most of 'em do regular inspections on themselves without a care if there is an audience present or not.
Reading the synopsys of this movie I don't see the "hidden" meaning behind what your insinuating at all. When it first came out, I didn't think it looked overly interesting to begin with.
The mother that writes about "grooming children" in the article is a survivor of childhood abuse herself, being a person of a certain type of mind might see the scenes of the movie in that way.
Wouldn't anyone question the need to include touchy feely scenes of private parts as humor suitable for young children, if that's what they are trying to pass off as funny.
Parents today need to do just that...parent. Were not the child's friend, or equal...were the parent, plain and simple. Vet the movie first if you must before taking the child to it. When we went to see Deadpool, an R rated movie, parent's STILL brought their child into the theater, then were upset at the scenes.
How many movies that I may not like, or view it a certain way, or assume something, when someone else may find it different?
Since I was raised on a ranch and from a small child helped out with working cattle, it didn't register with me as bad. I was at the pens when cows were palpated and calves castrated. But my parents were very frank when it came to what was right and wrong about interactions among humans.
I had to have "the talk" with my younger granddaughter Abby one afternoon when we were collecting eggs and Pretty Boy our rooster hopped up on one of our hens. Abby asked what he was doing so I thought a moment how to construct it in a way she would understand and explained it to her.
My daughter is pretty open and constructs the discussions around the age they are at. Her mother in law is annoyed that the girls call their anatomical parts by the names they are given not cutesy names.
Well the outrage is has grown to the point that they changed the movie.
Mom's don't like it, don't take kids to see it, don't buy the recording, game over.
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