Material Girls (DVD, 2006, Dual Side)

I personally found this movie to be as expected besides the bad language and rude humor. Cheap humor! This movie was purchased for my 4 children who are 2, 4, 6 and 11. As far as the PG rating, after only few minutes I panicked thinking I made a mistake about the rating of the movie. This movie was NOT PG material! I am not a prude and I am fairly liberal about what my children watch but I squirmed in my seat when viewing this movie. There were blatant references to adultery, gang banging, and sex that I did not think appropriate at all. There was also quite a bit of foul language. I don't know about you, but I am quite certain that a movie that has foul language that has and has not been dubbed over, should not have been rated PG - yet should be rated PG 13. Even my 11 year old knew that this was something that was a little off and caught onto the "jail" scene where one of the "inmates" has to be dubbed for stating something TOTALLY inappropriate to which they dub "in my bra".

During the blooper real - the "inmate" is dubbed more than 4 times for stating this. I mean for an 11 year old to notice this...if they wanted to have it rated PG - why didn't they just re-tape this portion and the others in this movie that little ones shouldn't be viewing. OR shoot for PG 13 and leave all of the vulgar language in there. I feel that this has nothing to do with the girls acting, but more on the people behind the movie and the people who rate movies such as this. This language was unexpected, extremely objectionable, and not appropriate in my opinion.

There are also 2 scenes where they show people including Haylie Duff smoking - although they state that it is gross - why not just eliminate all of the smoking? Young impressionable children do not need to see people who they look up to smoking - weather or not they state "that's gross".

I personally would have enjoyed the movie had we watched it without our children first and then decided this was NOT a movie for them. I truly like Hilary and Haylie Duff. I have watched 7th Heaven since day one and haven’t missed one episode, but this is just one movie that I feel should have been better rated!

My warning to all parents of children under 13, is to view the movie before to see if this is something that they should allow their children to view.