I know this sounds crazy....re: TANGLED

[wenrob]

Actually the only thing that bothers me about that movie is when the 'step mother' stabs Flynn. But that's my own personal issue (I was stabbed about 10 years ago) and I've let it go because the heroes are generally taken out in various violent ways in all the movies. I barely blink at those.

My only thought to the frying pan is that it can't really be cast iron, it'd be too heavy to fling around like that.

 

[minniecarousel]

Yeah, I was going to mention the 3 Stooges too. I have 3 older and 2 younger brothers. Never did any of them get hit with a frying pan (amazingly - no poked eyes, either!).

Now, the "nyuk...nyuk...nyuk..." they had that down pat!

 

[Jennasis]

Priceless thread.

 

[klacey1]

Well, let me tell you. When my son was around 4, he used to watch a Nickelodeon show called "What Would You Do," where people would get hit in the face with a pie. He loved that show and watched it pretty much every day. We were having dinner at my parents' house and my mom had made a cake. He took the cake, walked right up to her and slammed it in her face. OMG, the looks on everybody's faces!

Yeah, we didn't watch that show anymore. It just didn't OCCUR to me to think to tell him that shoving creamy desserts in people's faces is inappropriate. Lesson learned.

I cannot tell you how hard this made me LOL! TOO FUNNY!!

 

[TiggerCat]

They will only do it once and then common sense will kick in. Wonderful thing that common sense is. It allows us to reason with ourselves that a heavy cast iron frying pan is most likely going to really hurt if we get hit in the head.

TC.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

If the movie Tangled is going to be blamed for kids hitting each other with frying pans, then I wonder what made my sister do it 40 years ago! LOL

My mother never let us stay by ourselves, even when we were teenagers. She didn't "trust" us. The story goes that she left my older sister in charge one day. My sister was about 17yo...and she had a temper. (I was 6) My brother ticked her off so bad, she clunked him with a cast iron frying pan.

If my mother ever had to go anywhere without us again, we had to go across the street to our neighbor. (mom didn't get out much wothout us anyway).

To the OP...Tangled is rated PG. Here is the explanation of a PG rated movie

The PG rating is meant as a warning to parents to check out the film for themselves before allowing their younger children to watch it. PG movies may contain elements that parents may find unsuitable for children in the
opinion of the ratings board.

PG films may contain some limited profanity; violence may be depicted a bit more graphically; brief nudity may be present but these elements are not deemed intense enough to warrant a stronger rating.

Bloody violence will usually garner a PG-13 or above rating as will use of the F-word.

I think the frying pan may be why Tangled has garnered a PG rating.

 

[FireDancer]

No more than Scarface promotes cutting up people with a chainsaw in the bathtub. Only "special" kids can't distinguish between reality and make believe. We watched Warner Brothers cartoons growing up and not once did I ask anyone how many lumps they want in their tea and followed it up with a mallet to the head.

 

[akhenaten]

does anyone remember El kabong... who would hit people with a guitar???
(Quick Draw Mcgraw)
LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naneMe2CxPM&feature=related

I never hit anyone with a guitar and my parents never sat with me to watch it or explained that hitting with a guitar = bad....

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Does Wile E Coyote promote blowing kids up?

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Sometimes I feel like it is April Fool's Day everyday on the DIS.

My brother and I watched the 3 Stooges religiously, but never, once, did I drop a bowling ball on his head. Shame, I now realize I could have used the TV as a scapegoat.

 

[PebblesMK]

Actually the only thing that bothers me about that movie is when the 'step mother' stabs Flynn. But that's my own personal issue (I was stabbed about 10 years ago) and I've let it go because the heroes are generally taken out in various violent ways in all the movies. I barely blink at those.

My only thought to the frying pan is that it can't really be cast iron, it'd be too heavy to fling around like that.

Don't forget that she had to pull her "mother" up the tower every day for how many years? I'd probably be able to fling a frying pan around pretty easily too.

 

[NY Disney fan]

Don't forget that she had to pull her "mother" up the tower every day for how many years? I'd probably be able to fling a frying pan around pretty easily too.

 

[cabanafrau]

It does sound crazy to me. Tom & Jerry? Looney Tunes? Etc., etc.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Depends on the kids.

I used to climb up on the doorknobs in my house and swing myself back & forth pretending I was on a telephone like the guy from Green Acres http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGRspPe4qsc

My DH used to copy the Pizza Delivery guy from Electric Company by piling up all the multicolored plastic records from the toy players we had in the 70's on one hand and then fling himself down the stairs.

We were both under 10 when we did this stuff, and plenty more, but we survived with lots & lots of funny stories. My son is a 13 year old skarteboarder and every once in a while I remind him there is a reason why Bam Margera's Crew call their movies what they call them.

OP, I would hope that someone somewhere has a talk with all kids about hitting being bad on some level before watching Tangled. If a kid has never heard hitting with weapons is a bad idea the movie is the least of the problems.