 | ON: Content is age-appropriate for kids this age. |
 | PAUSE: Know your child; some content may not be right for some kids. |
 | OFF: Not age-appropriate for kids this age. |
 | NOT FOR KIDS: Not appropriate for kids any age. |
Extreme Movie
- Review Date: February 25, 2009
- R
- Genre: Comedy
- 2008
Common Sense Media says
Vulgar teen-sex revue is extreme waste of time.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this sex comedy wants to push the envelope for tastelessness and shock. In addition to requisite female toplessness, the camera fixates on a sex toy that depicts a realistic, disembodied pelvis/vagina. Characters are high-schoolers (played by actors who look age-correct, for once) engaged in sexual practices and preoccupations, from basic attempts to lose virginity with a prostitute to bizarre fetishes with dwarves, Nazi regalia, and Abraham Lincoln. Though campy dialogue isn't strewn with swearing (a la Martin Scorsese), pretty much the whole range of profanity is uttered for comical effect, with both clinical and street-slang language. Locker-room humor references pornography, erections, vibrators, flatulence, etc. Heavy drinking in one segment, demeaning black stereotypes in another.
What's the story?
There's no real plot in EXTREME MOVIE, just a catch-all of teenage sexual jokes and body-function embarrassments, all befalling characters in a very uninhibited high-school sex-ed class (the instructor welcomes the group with a tirade of R-rated obscenities, to prove that he's "keeping it real"). Two horny students, in a parody of the 1980s teen comedy Weird Science, conjure a perfect woman via computer, only to get a raunchy fat lady; a girl accidentally lodges a vibrating cell phone in her loins; a new line of greeting cards deliver the news of sexually-transmitted diseases. In drop-in segments, actor Matthew Lillard, as himself, dispenses very un-PC dating advice in Public-Service-announcement form.
Is it any good?
A laugh-out-loud, witty, creative compilation of ribald humor...was done by Woody Allen in 1972's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid To Ask. In comparison, Extreme Movie is an extreme waste of time, and offensively so because (unlike the Woody Allen satire) it seems so desperate in catering to a school-aged audience.
Some Saturday Night Live writer-performers supposedly contributed to the uneven and generally juvenile segments, and a few of the better bits could have stood alone well as trangressive humor -- like the one about a lonely fat kid and his love affair with a vagina-shaped rubber sex toy (it's appalling at first, but unrolls with imaginative comic logic). The puerile blackout-sketch structure doesn't build much plotline or go anywhere, though an upbeat musical number about filming a porno movie is evidently supposed to be more or less the climax -- and no, that is not our idea of a dirty joke).
Explore, discuss, enjoy
Families can talk about dirty jokes and their appeal.
Why do you think a movie like this got made? What parts are funny and what aren't?
Use Extreme Movie as a gateway to viewing an acclaimed documentary feature entitled The Aristocrats,
which spotlights a gallery of comedians telling and analyzing the same
dirty joke and its legendary history, getting at the nature of what
makes us laugh.
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Parent of 12 year old
June 24, 2011
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Too Much Sexual Content And Language
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Kid, 11 years old
March 22, 2009
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THIS IS BAD!!!!!!!!
wow!!!!!!!!
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rated NO KIDS?????
i hate NO KIDS rated OFF for Me Movies.
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rated NO KIDS?????
i hate NO KIDS rated OFF for Me Movies.
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Teen, 15 years old
May 30, 2012
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Extremely sexual teenage movie is propably the worst comedy ever
I usually find at least some postive aspects in comedies, but this is propably the worst comedy ever made.The jokes seem overused, stupid and at some points they are so unfunny that in the end you have to laugh, though. I don't know how much they paid to Michael Cera to join this movie, for he is a good actor. But this movie doesn't give him a chance.
There are jokes involving anthropomorphic sex toys, more than embarassing sex practises and a very stupid skit involving a Muppet-like doll talking about sex. Actually, i don't think there are jokes that don't have anything to do with sex. The whole movie looks like random scenes merched together to a "movie".
Absolutely not recommended.
The movie's sexuality is extreme: anthropomorphic sex toys (very graphic), dubious sex practises involving beastiality and sex in a nazi uniform, a girl masturbates with a mobile phone, a porn set, etc.
Actually, sex is everything the movie is about.
The language is also pretty bad.
Okay, this is supposed to be a comedy and not a porn (even though a scene is set on a film studio for porns), so mature teens and up can handle it.
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| Studio: | Dimension |
| Director: | Adam Jay Epstein |
| Cast: | Frankie Muniz, Jamie Kennedy, Michael Cera |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 78 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | December 12, 2008 |
| DVD release date: | February 24, 2009 |
| MPAA rating: | R |
| MPAA explanation: | strong pervasive sexual content, nudity and language - all involving teens |
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