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As I picked up my third grader from school today, I passed a couple of fifth grade girls who were discussing Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Don't get me wrong, I love Kevin Smith's work, and I thought the movie in question a riot. But in what universe it is appropriate viewing for eleven-year-olds?

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[lizw.livejournal.com]

It isn't obviously inappropriate in mine - it depends on the kids and what they, as individuals, are affected by. My nine-year-old, for instance, is entirely unaffected by bad language - it doesn't appeal to him, he never copies it. If anything, it bores him, so I wouldn't show him the South Park movie for that reason, not because anything in it would disturb him or provoke bad behaviour. He's unaffected by violence, but may get upset by certain horror scenarios, particularly if they include anything resembling alien abduction, which is one of his personal bogies. He's at the age where sex is somewhere between embarrassing and boring, so wouldn't want to sit through anything that had more than trivial sex scenes in it.

Jay and Silent Bob might just pass those criteria, although the scene with the nun in the truck might be too much for him. It has a lot of humour in it which would definitely appeal to him, as well.