A couple get drunk, start making out, and then are shown in a bedroom undressing each other. When one character is faced with a tough decision a girl says jokingly, “What would Jesus do?” This made me mad because of the way she acted when she said it.
I love Kirsten Dunst but this movie was totally uninspired even with her starring in it. I thought this film was quite a let down. wouldn’t it be beautiful if studios would make positive films for a generation that needs sound values and morals? I do agree with one thing Nicole believes: “I wish I wasn’t the child that everybody learned what not to do from.” Parents: it would be crazy to allow your teen to be entertained by the negative and immoral propoganda in this film. Most of the clothing is risque at best (even though it may be realistic) and many of the youthful activities portrayed are reckless and dangerous. It also has several profanities and frequent uses of God’s name in vain. This must be the newly revised limit for the MPA. I will continue my warnings with the fact that the film contains 3 F-words. The movie fails as a love story and the human tension that can exist between good and self-destructive behavior. We do see some racial tension and the dad tries to buy the interest of Carlos by offering him a recommendation into the Naval Academy.
The dad does take some interest in his daughter’s choice. This plot point is played up with exaggerated maternal coddling. Her mother has died and her father and stepmother fuss over their new baby. Writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi do try to get us to sympathize with Nicole.
Carlos does insist on using a condom and Nicole reassures him that her father (who is outside by the pool) would be “proud that we are using protection.” The dialog between the two is, after all, politically correct. Let’s not forget to throw in a steamy shower scene. Teens undressing and crawling into bed with cutaway shots of partial nudity. It isn’t long before we have the obligatory bedroom scene. After all, he is going to try and help Nicole find her way. Carlos plays his predictable role of hormones-over-intelligence. She throws herself at Carlos in a reckless and sexually bold manner. Nicole is attracted by this hunk and we all begin to connect the dots. Drugs and alcohol are glorified throughout this appalling movie. “Crazy/Beautiful” has teens cutting classes and educating the youthful masses that it is OK to smoke pot and bring spiked Gatorade to school. He even gets upset when given a detention. So the poor Latino teen is trying to make the most of his opportunities and spoiled girl is throwing hers away.
He is the model student and goes out of his way (traveling 2 hours by bus) to get a better education at this “magnet” school. This is a departure from her beginnings at age 11 when she starred in the moral “ Little Women.”Ĭarlos (Jay Hernandez) is the son of a hard working Mexican-American mother. Kirsten continues her path of negative teen roles (“The Virgin Suicides” and “ Bring It On”). Nicole ( Kirsten Dunst) is the troubled daughter of a congressman. “Crazy/Beautiful” is the familiar story of “spoiled rich girl” meets “boy from the other side of the tracks”. There almost seems to be a hidden contest awarding the director who can get away with the most in the land of movie ratings. WARNING: PG-13 can be just as or even more offensive then an R-rated film. The scary part is that many parents today take more notice of the rating than they do the content. This film would better be a horror film instead of a drama. (This usually guarantees a directors cut when the expanded DVD format is released for consumption.)Ģ001 is continuing to be a year of disaster for the MTV generation. With razor precision and the 2001 MPA’s generous blurring of boundaries and standards, Touchstone complied. This came to studio executives after the decision to do the same as “ Save the Last Dance” (which was also originally rated “R”). The studio was warned and encouraged to trim the R-rated project “Crazy/Beautiful” to a PG-13 release. Disney’s Touchstone Pictures once again launches it’s assault on today’s youth and the family.