(your experience, and your ratings of the issues will vary - that is fine - this is my personal moral opinion)
- The number of times the word "butt" is used; all of them in a derogatory manner, not in an appropriate anatomical term manner. As in, "What is your name?" "Your Butt." In comparison, the word "gosh" is spelled out. Huh!? UGH.
- Batman is a jerk. Nothing like any of the movies I have seen of him (I have not seen all of them). He is supposed to be a hero, he could at least know his girlfriend's name - or have some level of depth. He wasn't even shallow. Just a jerk.
- Two security guards sit on a photocopy machine and create images. Enough said. My child does NOT need to see that.
- Overall feel of the attitude. There is enough of that in this world, I do not need my 10 year old son having it reiterated through a movie about his favorite building toy and is "Screen-namesake".
- If my son ever says "That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard" in the tone of voice used in the movie (repeatedly, by different characters), he will be banned from speaking the rest of the day. Yes, I really do carry out such punishments. And my son doesn't speak like that more than ONCE.
Just because my child will see or experience or have natural inclinations to these things in the rest of his life, does NOT mean I have a need or desire to have it reiterated in a movie.
There ARE good things in this movie. They are overshadowed by the issues above.
In the end, this is a movie about a well-meaning story told by adult men playing at being children again, but who are, indeed, adults.
This is an adult movie. And I would have totally enjoyed it if I'd gone it into thinking "this is an adult movie."
