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National Lampoon's Pledge This!

(2006, Rated NR, Comedy, Starring Paris Hilton, Paula Garces, Kerry Kenney)
  • Is it age appropriate?

    About our ratings

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 99; suggested age 16.
  • Is it any good?

    1.0
  • Common Sense says

    Paris Hilton's horrendous, predictable sex romp.

Why We Rated This off for Ages 16 and Under

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    Lots of stereotyping of an East Indian girl, Mexicans, the Japanese, fat girls, and homosexuals. A father feels up his daughter's friend. Victoria is vicious and humiliates the girls because she can. She treats everyone horribly and expects them to kowtow to her.
  • Violence:

    Not an issue.
  • Sex:

    Everything horrible you would expect. Lots of naked breasts -- including one shot of breasts scarred by implant cuts. Talk about "gangbangs," "rim jobs," and the size of boys' penises. A girl finds a vibrator and is shoved into a closet to use it for the first time. There's a threesome in a bathroom stall. Victoria has her dog lick her boyfriend's penis. There's an orgy, sucking of toes, and Victoria does a stripper dance for her teacher in the middle of class. There are also scenes of girls kissing each other and lesbians preying on straight girls.
  • Language:

    Lots of crude language, including "hell," "jackass," "c--k," "bitch," "s--t," "ho," "dickless wonder," "f--k," and "bulls--t."
  • Consumerism:

    The film is practically a commercial for Paris Hilton's inexplicable career. Other products are also named, including FHM magazine, NetZero, Apple computers, and Classmates.com.
  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Kathy is constantly drinking and asks her roommate where she can get illicit drugs. Dax takes Ecstacy before trying to have sex with a girl.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About National Lampoon's Pledge This!

Parents need to know that this film treats everyone in it in a derogatory fashion. There's the Indian girl who's nicknamed "Poopoo," the horrendous stereotype of the Mexican rental agent, the drag queen geisha who's the main character's inexplicable sidekick, the promiscuous gay men, and the self-loathing fat girls. Kathy cheats on her husband, who cheated on her, and boys are depicted as mindless horndogs who are incapable of real relationships. The movie's crude sexuality -- stripteases for teachers, sex toys, dog gags, orgies, threesomes in bathroom stalls, etc., -- leads us to give it an "off" rating, even for 17+, because it's marketed to a younger audience drawn to tabloid queen Paris Hilton.

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Families Can Talk About

  • Families can talk about how girls police one another based on money, body size, race, and sexuality. Do these differences tell you anything about who the person is? Have you ever shied away from talking to someone because they were different from you? Have you ever gossiped about a girl because she didn't fit the stereotype of the tall, beautiful, blond, rich girl? Does the movie teach any good lessons at all (even indirectly) about judging others?

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  1. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    Lives in California
    I rate this title off for age 17 and give it 1.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message
    • Negative role models

    Sorry just not for kids

  2. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    Lives in New York
    I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it 4.0

    I liked it.

    Ok, let me say this to all the sensitive people- it's just a friggin movie. You shouldn't judge a movie by all the sex, profanity, and mature content. You should base you're reviews on how you like the movie based on it's comedy, acting horror, action, etc. Anyways, this movie was actually funny. I thought that Paris Hilton couldn't pull it off, but, she definetly did.

  3. Adult Reviewer
    Lives in Minnesota
    I rate this title on for age 13 and give it 5.0

    it was awesome paris looks so hot

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