Money-Back Movie

The Liloia family has only ever walked out of two movies. The first was in 1999 when normally-quiet baby Trevor (who used to sleep through any movie we brought him to) insisted on babbling through the entire first 15 minutes of a matinee of The Sixth Sense and we gave up and left for the comfort of the two other people in the theater.

This weekend, we walked out of our second film. Superhero Movie got the axe from the Liloia clan. We even asked for our money back since no other kid-appropriate films were on the schedule. The first ten minutes of the movie were stuffed with inappropriate, vulgar sex jokes. It felt like the film's creators were trying hard to be as graphic as possible while skating under a PG-13 rating by not using sexually-derived words as expletives (a stipulation of an "R" rating).

This is what happens when you make a spur of the moment decision to see a movie on a sunny Saturday without access to your computer. We usually check reviews and parent-friendly movie sites (like Kids in Mind) before picking a movie. We thought a superhero film would be fun... not so much.

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