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  Posted by no1nailtech Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:10am PST

  My husband and I took our kids...ages 6, 8, & 11, to see this movie the day after Christmas. We read many reviews and thought it would be appropriate for them to see. I was so SHOCKED about the sexual content, innuendo, partial nudity, and there are MORE than "ass and damn" in the bad language category! We aren't too prudish as adults, but we are very careful about what our kids watch, and this was a huge dissapointment. If I had known it had more than just the crazy dog and his laughable antics, we would have passed on it all together. I watched Oprah the other day with Jennifer Aniston, and nothing was ever mentioned about the sexual adult content of this movie. What a shame that so much of this content is just accepted now a days. It would have been a wonderful movie without the sexual issues, and bad language. The scene when he is euthanized was very upsetting to my children, even though we talked to them about it before we made the decision to go. We had NO idea how graphic and drawn out it would be. It shows the doctor injecting the medication into the dogs IV tube, then they show the medication running down the tube to the dogs paw, all the while the vet is explaining it to Owen Wilson, and then you see Marley's eyes closing. It's as if you are actually in the room with all of them! The scene takes quite a long time as well. I think it could have been handled better. Kids are exposed to too much as it is. For some reason, the movie world feels the need for shock value. I think for adults, the movie has a lot of issues that families face and can relate to, but for young children, it's not appropriate in the least.

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  Posted by mpathubb Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:47pm PST

  I took my kids 6 and 10 to this movie based on the fact that my daughter read the book. And like the previous post spent the whole movie with a knot in my stomach. There is content in this movie that is no way appropriate for a PG rating. There is way to much sexual content that is not material to the story and I guess is in there to appeal to an older audience. My daughter repeated on more than one occasion that "this was not in the book". So if you are taking your pre-teen daughter to this movie because she read the book. BEWARE.

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  Posted by eiismom Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:18pm PST

  As with the other postings, I was disappointed with the movie. I took my 7 and 8 year old girls to the movie--and seriously condsidered leaving early due to the inappropriate sexual content. Things like "take off all our clothes and get it on" are not family friendly. The euthanasia scene was also difficult to watch. We witnessed several children crying after the movie--not just trickle tears, but stop in the aisle, cannot move tears. Also, it was hard to watch Jennifer Anniston go emotionally "berserk" because of her difficulty handling a colicky baby, rambunctious dog, and her adjustment to not working out of the home. While, her reaction is true to life, it was a little heavy and perhaps frightening to young children. I am very sad that this movie was advertised as a family comedy and released when most kids are on winter break; their parents trying to find some lightheartedness during difficult times.

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  Posted by julj3t_kjss Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:50am PST

  I suggest Admin to open the account for my child. ID is: r0m3o_kjss@yahoo.com.vn. Me when I registered my ID, it may not make a mistake writing the date of birth. I request to open my account for my child. Be open to now. If there is anything to send a message ID: s13uqu4yph4@yahoo.com.vn. That's it.

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  Posted by julj3t_kjss Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:54am PST

  My child when registering my nick, it was written nhan date of birth as 1996. But it was born in 1987. I request Admin or 1 someone to open the account for my child. If you want to ask what this message to the ID of it: s13uqu4yph4@yahoo.com.vn

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  Posted by julj3t_kjss Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:59am PST

  My child is it you remember it. He expected the ID open my fast for me. Because the course of his ID it. It has everything to seek help in finding ways to network. I told my children that way, my whole line of them to find the same network. But still no results, I hope all of his experience for me, because it does not have it so you girls pretend students only 96 years, it has and I apologize to it then. He would open the ID of it soon.

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  Posted by jmkarow@ameritech.net Sat Jan 3, 2009 3:18pm PST

  i went and saw marley and me it was so sexual

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  Posted by campbell.kim19 Sun Jan 4, 2009 7:06am PST

  We had to walk out with my 5 and 8 year old children. We thought this would be a fun family movie and was shocked with all the adult content. This movie should have had a much higher rating. Yikes!

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  Posted by karen_brush Sun Jan 4, 2009 11:52am PST

  The dog DIES!!! Avoid the movie unless you want a sobbing child for hours afterwards. Maybe OK for older kids but definitely NOT a light hearted comedy as marketed.

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  Posted by readswithnocomment Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:04pm PST

  This afternoon I took my 3 sons (10, 8, 5) to see this. I don't know why I didn't have the guts to walk out...I kept thinking that is the worst it was going to be and wish I had researched before leaving the house. Luckily, the constant sexual inuendo was over the younger guys heads and my 5 yr was asleep early on. Thankfully, there wasn't much shown. My 10 y/o said "They sure do it a lot in this movie!" The language was much worse than expected. I can't believe they advertised this as PG. My kids also walked in the door and asked their dad for a cat. They're too afraid of living this movie. Finally, the stabbing. They've seen Narnia and Star Wars and still it was shocking to them to hear that girl scream and then see her on the ground bleeding. One of my sons wanted to know if we live in a good neighborhood or not and is having a hard time getting to bed. This movie is inappropriate and the rating should have been higher. The true fault is in the misleading marketing. Just because its Aniston and Wilson did not mean it would automatically be inappropriate, and its ridiculously condescending to say so.

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