Penelope

I watched Penelope with Christina Ricci and James McAvoy, the day after Thanksgiving.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472160/ (actor and movie information)


http://commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/Penelope.html (age appropriate information)

The movie was very cute. The storyline is:

Penelope's family was cursed, so the next female child born to the Wilhern family would have the face of a pig. The curse can only be broken when she finds One of her own (High society "blue blood") who will love her faithfully, until death do they part.

The movie is sweet.

There is a little bit of swearing, some of it is muttered, and none of the words are Extremely offensive.

Nothing 'questionable' otherwise. The main characters kiss once or twice and that is all.

Violence: The only part is when a young man who has seen Penelope thinks he sees her staring in the car window. She has fangs and is snarling. It is very quick and it catches you off guard.

As for the worldview, it involves the self-esteem, 'love yourself' that people are so fond of. The girl does not have the greatest respect for her parents and runs away from home. And there are some scenes in a bar and there is drinking.
Penelope does get drunk at one point.
Drinking is shown as 'cool' and 'grown-up' So it is shown in a positive light.
There is also gambling, although, it is somewhat frowned upon. The young man (Max) who gambles, is shown not getting any sleep, and never winning.
The major point of the movie though, would be to "like yourself" It was not however shoved into your face. The message is given towards the end of the movie, and there are a couple of scenes discussing it, and, even though it was a pivotal point for the movie it did not seem to be a prominent discussion. The rest of the movie is Penelope trying to find the only man (Max) who hadn't run away from her.

I very much enjoyed Penelope. It was cute and sweet and a happily ever after.

I happily recommend the movie.

(Note: I do not go to great lengths to discuss the content, I am trying to focus more on the movie's view. Common sense media and kids in mind will give details on what specifically is in the movie)

Enjoy!

Twilight

Update:The book has grown on me some. I like it. Just really be careful, as careful as you would be reading Harry Potter, especially if you are between the ages of 11 and oh 15ish. Go in with a Biblical worldview and you'll be fine. : ) It's a very well-written book and it has grown on me.


Twilight, By Stephanie Meyer.

When I first read Twilight, I was expecting a vampire story that had romance in it. What I got, was a romance with some vampires thrown in.

Twilight was fantastically written, Stephanie Meyer is very talented. However, as for the storyline....
The story was very interesting, I thought there was only one slow part towards the middle/end of the book.
The end of the book was horrible in my opinion.
Very anti-climactic. I was extremely unhappy. (after I've done a few posts i'll put in a *spoiler* post)

As for the actual content:
I don't remember there being any swearing at all, there might have been some, but I honestly can not remember any.
There were a couple of times when Bella and Edward kissed and that was weird, I don't really know what happened there....I got confused at that point.
Some violence, not actually a whole lot, considering it is a vampire book.

The major problem I had with the book other than the ending was Bella.
She was absolutely and completely obsessed with Edward. It was all she thought about, she couldn't stand not being with him.
Absolute obsession.
I would recommend caution if a younger 'tween' girl is reading the book.
Read it with her, help her to understand some of the flaws in Bella's thinking and in some of the other things that happen. Help her to understand what the Bible says about some of the things discussed in the book.
Look at that, you get to spend time with your kid and you get to talk about what the Bible says.
How cool is that?

In conclusion, I don't think the book is that great.
I don't think it's good enough to recommend, however,
I do recommend some caution if you do read it.
But it's not horrible, content-wise [my english teacher would be furious with me for adding *wise* : )]

Night All!

New Blog

Okay, I can guarantee right now, I will not be on this blog much. Only during any school breaks really.
The purpose of this blog is to review movies and some books from a Christian perspective, again, I'm in school, I have a job, I have a family I like to spend time with, I will not update here a whole lot. : )

The Title of this blog is Think on These Things, it is based in Philippians 4: 8 -

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate (think) on these things. (NKJ)

So, that's the basis.

my main blog is "In the Center" the address is mollberry.blogspot.com