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Scared My 8-Yr.-Old Daughter to Tears
by Bryan (movies profile)
Jul 8, 2008
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The preview for "Water Horse" is oh-so-cute, but the last third of the film is remarkably violent. The cutesy pup, complete with little Shrek ears, becomes a monstrous adult; the film becomes typical Hollywood excess and stupidity, with numbskull wannabe soldiers firing machine guns and incredible amounts of artillery while attempting to kill the beast. There's a moment where the beast hovers over a man in the water; I was praying, "Please don't let my daughter see this thing EAT this man" (a la "Jurassic Park"). The sadistic, manipulative filmmakers leave us and the man hanging (from the beast's mouth) interminably before it finally throws the man to shore. Offscreen, however, the beast eats, or least kills, a dog that had tormented it when the beast was a pup. (In the preview, the dog whimpers and runs away -- LIARS.) Amid all this mayhem, my 8-year-old daughter, through her tears, says, "This movie should have been PG-13!" As a father who cares, I try to carefully screen movies for my children. "Water Horse" left me furious. The preview is a LIE; the movie is NOT for small children. Don't waste your time or your money, but if you must, note that kids under 12 should stay away. |
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