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Extreme Movie

(2008, Rated R, Comedy, Starring Jamie Kennedy, Frankie Muniz, Michael Cera)

  • Is it age appropriate?

    About our ratings

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 17.

  • Is it any good?

    1.0

  • Common Sense says

    Vulgar teen-sex revue is extreme waste of time.

updated 10.09.09

Why We Rated This not for kids

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    No positive messages. Demeaning racial overtones in one segment.

  • Role models :

    No real characters created; nobody worth looking up to, anyway. Rare sight of one high-school boy in a wheelchair, but the joke is that he gets "lucky" with far more girls than his crestfallen classmates.

  • Violence:

    Not an issue.

  • Sex:

    Bare-breasted and lingerie-clad girls cavorting in sex scenes, as drawings in the opening credits, in an online striptease, and what is supposed to be the making of a porn flick. Frequent close-ups of sex toys that look like male and female genitalia. Jokey references to masturbation, oral sex, anal sex (homosexual and heterosexual), group sex, fetishistic sex, etc.

  • Language:

    Excessive profanity is uttered for comical effect, with streams of dirty words in particular coming from teachers and old folks.

  • Consumerism:

    Occasional computer logos and clothing labels. Some gag commercials for sex-aid products that are clearly fictitious.

  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Much drinking and inebriation in one sketch-segment. In another a character (well, a sex doll) commits suicide with an overdose of pills.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Extreme Movie

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.

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Families Can Talk About

  • 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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    I rate this title off for age 13 and give it 2.0
    My concerns are:
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

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