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What the parental reviews missed in Spiderman: Homecoming

July 10, 2017 by Susan 5 Comments

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Spiderman: Homecoming. I was shocked what the parental reviews missed.

 

I don’t consider myself a prude.  But I do feel like Jeremiah when he wrote that the people –who God was about to punish, by the way– had ‘forgotten how to blush’.

It is really not my intent to become a movie reviewer here.  And after writing about my emotional reaction to Wonder Woman recently, I didn’t plan on writing about any other movies anytime soon.  Then I went to see Spiderman: Homecoming on Friday.

I live with boys, so superhero movies are kind of a given around here.  As with any movie we see, we do our homework to make sure we’re not walking in blind when it comes to content.  (My two favorite sites to check are Kids in Mind and Internet Movie Database).  Spiderman is rated PG-13, and includes the expected few instances of inappropriate comments and scattered mild language.  It’s sad to say that we’ve come to expect this in most movies, but this is the world we live in, so expect it we do.

What I did not expect in Spiderman was a comment that still has my head reeling today.

Spiderman: Homecoming. I was shocked what the parental reviews missed.

Let me say first–I enjoyed the movie overall.  Solid plot, entertaining, well-done.  If you decide to see it, I think you’ll enjoy it too.  But as with anything you watch, be prepared to discuss the content with your kids.  When we do this, we are apprenticing them into adulthood, helping them form a Biblical worldview.  Don’t miss these opportunities!

So what was the comment?  Well, it was quick.  Which is why I think reviewers missed it.  My 16 year old didn’t hear it.   And because of that, even though I was sure of what I’d heard, I searched online to find a reference to it…just to be certain.  I found a few sites that made reference to it (so I really didn’t make it up).  One parental review site that I did find this scene on was Plugged In.  They’ve not been my favorite in the past because they don’t seem to be as thorough, but I may have to give them another try!

A vulgar game that you’ll wish you didn’t know existed

Let me set it up a bit for you.  Have you heard of a game called ‘F-M-K’?  You identify, from a group of people, which person you would have sex with (F), which one you would marry (M) and which one you would kill (K).  It’s disturbing that this ‘game’ exists, right?

Thor

In Spiderman, there’s a scene where 14 and 15 year old kids are in gym class.  A group of girls is sitting on the bleachers, apparently playing this game.  One girl says, “I would ‘eff’ Thor…” and then goes on to describe who she would marry and kill from the Avengers.  The conversation turns to Spiderman and that’s where your attention is supposed to go as well.

I, however, was stunned.  I would ‘eff’ Thor?!

How many people read that line and gave it the green light before it appeared?  How many people hear it and think it’s no big deal? …  Maybe it isn’t a big deal.  Kids talk about sex, after all…right?

A 14 year old girl saying that she’d like to have sex with a grown man.  Nope.  Definitely disturbing.

How long will we continue to sexualize young girls before we realize that it is not ’empowering’?

We’re creating a culture that tells girls that they can and should dress as provocatively, talk as explicitly, and behave as flirtatiously as they can.  And in return for this, they should expect men to respond with attention when they want it and stop at their command.

As strongly as I can say it…hear this:  sexual assault is always wrong.  Rape is always wrong.  A man is always responsible when he forces sex upon a woman who says no.  Always.

We are each responsible for our own actions and their consequences.

But can I tell you a story?  When my boys were young, my youngest would pick and prod at his older brother until he got a reaction.  One of those times, big brother punched him and gave him a bloody nose.  In disciplining them, we told my eldest that he was wrong for punching his brother.  We told him that he is responsible for his actions no matter what someone else does to provoke him.

Then we turned to little brother and said that if he pestered people constantly, he should expect them to react eventually.  We told him that he is responsible for the consequences of his actions.  “You can choose to keep picking, prodding, and poking with your words…but then you should expect to get punched in the nose.”

We are each responsible for our own actions and the consequences of our actions.

Responsible for writing a script, for example, that has a young girl saying she’d like to have sex with an adult man.  Person after person responsible for reading the line and saying,  ‘Yup, that’s totally appropriate.’  

Maybe I am a prude after all.

Does this line disturb you, or is it just me?

Spiderman: Homecoming. I was shocked what the parental reviews missed.

Spiderman tends to be one of the superheroes that is especially attractive to little kids.  If you are planning to take your kids to see Spiderman: Homecoming, please be sure to check one of the parental review sites I mentioned above.  There is other inappropriate content that is much more obvious than the one thing I addressed here.  One that happens to be a personal pet peeve of mine: a comment is made about a teen boy looking at pornography (perpetrating the assumption that of course teen boys look at porn).  For older kids, don’t miss the chance to talk with them about worldview.

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Spiderman: Homecoming. I was shocked what the parental reviews missed.

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  1. Susan Erwin says

    July 10, 2017 at 10:00 am

    My husband and I decided when our girls were toddlers that we were not going to allow them or ourselves to watch television shows or movies with immoral, ungodly content. Well, that ruled out almost everything (except older classics like Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music,etc) and that was 25 years ago. Although we live in a sinful world and we are all sinners, we felt convicted that we shouldn’t CHOOSE such for entertainment. We understood that when they became young adults they would be making their own choices, but as parents we had to make those hard decisions. We did research also as best we could. Maybe we are not prides, but set apart, striving to be holy as God calls us to be.

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    • Susan Erwin says

      July 10, 2017 at 10:02 am

      Correction from previous comment- maybe we are not prudes rather than prides. Auto correct got me.

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      • Susan says

        July 10, 2017 at 10:09 pm

        haha! no problem 🙂

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    • Susan says

      July 10, 2017 at 10:08 pm

      Yes! We get that everyone sets different standards, and have had lots of conversations with our boys over the years about why we’ve set the ones we do. As they’ve become teens, the most convicting thing for me has been that if I don’t want them to watch something, then typically it’s not something I should watch either.

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  2. Marvel Art says

    December 9, 2017 at 1:01 am

    yes, I do agree with you Susan.

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