Monsters vs Aliens

Last night we went with our friends the Stansberry’s to take our kids to see the movie Monsters vs Aliens. The movie was mildly entertaining and the kids loved it, however it was overall very lame!

I won’t bore you with a detailed review from the movie, but I will talk briefly about some things that bothered me- mainly the films inappropriate content. It belittled men, made the United States government seem evil, and blurred the lines of gender and sexuality.

The thing that bothered me the most though, the reason why I am even taking the time to write this, was a particular scene involving a young couple attempting to have a romantic trist in a car out on ‘lover’s lane’ only to be interupted by the landing of a gigantic alien robot.

As the camera panned in on this scene, we got a view of the cars license plate which said ‘GYM-NASTY’. We are soon shown that the boy who owns this car is a gymnist. We learn the his girlfriend talked him into coming out to this make-out spot even though he didn’t feel comfortable with it.

The film implies- very clearly to the adults- that this girl wants to have sex with her boyfriend, but the boyfriend is too scared to do so and is depicted as a loser for not taking advantage of this situation with the girl. The girl is furious that her boyfriend is not willing to have sex with her, and that’s when the alien robot shows up.

The boy is terrified of the robot- so much so that his girlfriend has to carry him like a baby to check out what has happened. So the unspoken moral in the story for our children viewing the movie? That as a boy, it is your responsibillity to take your girlfriend out to some isolated place to have your way with her. That as a girl if a boy doesn’t take advantage of you on some dark country road; then he is weak, unmanly, efeminate, and possibly even gay. That as a girl you are to give yourself up to your boyfriend who drives you out to some isoltated place in the woods. That guys who are gymnists are pansies. That as a girl, you should be forward with your boyfriends and make the move to have sex with them; that will make you a better girlfriend. Etc, etc, etc…….

Sometimes the greatest morals of a story are the ones that are not very direct. When we will we start to realize that the reason our children are getting progressivley more imoral with every passing generation is because each preceding generation sends them messages that they are to act certain ways as adults in order to be accepted- and that when the children recieve these messages they put them into practice at younger and younger ages because they want to immulate those who are older than them.

Disgusting! I should have watched this movie before allowing my children to see it and I will not allow them to see it again.