Isn't It Romantic

Cartoonish violence played for laughs: Nat is hit on the head twice, mugged, hit by a car. There's no blood, and impact of incidents is minimized.

In a knowing joke, Nat and her suitors can kiss, but action then immediately cuts away to a waking-up-in-bed romantic scene before she can actually have sex with anyone. A male character is shown repeatedly and at length in a towel, strolling out of the shower shirtless; Nat says that his penis is huge, the size of a large restaurant pepper grinder.

Cursing is ironic: Though characters say "s--t" and "bitch" (both jokingly and insultingly), anytime anyone tries to say the word "f--k," some type of bleeping noise (from a truck, an alarm clock, etc.) drowns out the sound. At one point, Nat screams that she's in a romcom, and it's "f--king PG-13!" One unbleeped f--k is heard, when Nat wakes up from her dream and finds she's able to curse again. Swearing also includes "t-ts," "crap," "goddamn."

Characters drink in bars, including a scene in which Nat downs two shots of liquor to get the courage to sing onstage.

Parents need to know that Isn't It Romantic satirizes romantic comedies, following a woman named Natalie (Rebel Wilson) who gets trapped in a romcom world after suffering a head injury. The content is largely appropriate for teens. Violence is confined to cartoonish interludes in which Nat is struck by a car and hit in the head, both of which are played for laughs. Though Nat is interested in sex and talks about it, all she can do with her suitors is kiss -- after which the camera cuts repeatedly to a morning-after scene with her love interest (Liam Hemsworth) shirtless in a towel. Nat estimates a man's penis size as "pepper grinder" (the kind the waiter has to bring out to you). Characters drink in bars; Nat downs two shots of liquor to get courage to sing karaoke. Characters say "s--t" and "bitch," but all except one instance of "f--k" are drowned out by noise, comically. Stereotyped characters (competitive women, shallow men, a flamboyant gay man) are used to make points about clichéd characterizations in other movies. Mocking the romcom genre's conventions will make viewers consider what such movies tend to say about women and romance and may spark conversations about the way women are depicted. Themes of courage and self-control are also clear.

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