The Return of the Transformers

A child advocacy group, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, has complained to the Federal Trade Commission that ads and toys tied to the new Transformers movie are aimed at children as young as two years old, while the film is rated PG-13.

what? lol are you kidding me? i dont think its aiming at kids at all.

Well so was starwars ep3

I think most people who are fans, or who have been fans long enough to be in touch with fan communities, sees the movie for what it is - something targeted to older crowds but I've read a bunch of reviews over the past couple days complaining about the movie being meant for 8-12 year old boys.

It might not matter what we see it for, but what these people think it is. There were tons of people with their six, seven, and eight year old kids at the movie when I was there. I loved the kids enthusiasm for Transformers, reminds me of when I was that age, but there were a couple things in the movie that I didn't think were real appropriate for that age group and I could see where parents groups might have something to complain about.

Then again, the film is rated PG-13 so if they were doing their job as parents they should have known that coming in.

Algus wrote:I think most people who are fans, or who have been fans long enough to be in touch with fan communities, sees the movie for what it is - something targeted to older crowds but I've read a bunch of reviews over the past couple days complaining about the movie being meant for 8-12 year old boys.

It might not matter what we see it for, but what these people think it is. There were tons of people with their six, seven, and eight year old kids at the movie when I was there. I loved the kids enthusiasm for Transformers, reminds me of when I was that age, but there were a couple things in the movie that I didn't think were real appropriate for that age group and I could see where parents groups might have something to complain about.

Then again, the film is rated PG-13 so if they were doing their job as parents they should have known that coming in.

I dont think it could be put any better. This movie was intended for us older fans and older movie goers. Most parents only know TF as a kids cartoon. SO they figure "oh a Transformer movie. Little billy watches transformers befor school evrey day so it must be a kids movie". Most parents these days are morons and only take there kids to the movies to shut them up. It was the same with Star Wars ep3 and for some reason Alien Vs. Predator. When i seen both those movie opening day there were a good amount of little kids in the audiance. I think parents need to either look into things more ,like maybe see the damn movie your self then decide if your kid can see it, oh shut the hell up when the movie turned out not to be for the little kids. The signs were there. The directer is Bay, Its PG-13, evrey trailer has explosions and gun fights oh and not to mention the bots that will give kids nightmares. And as for these parents groups, its time to get a life or maybe watch what your kid is doing instead of bitching about a frakin movie or video game.

Donna L Montaldo wrote:But not everyone is excited about the return of the Transformers.

A child advocacy group, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, has complained to the Federal Trade Commission that ads and toys tied to the new Transformers movie are aimed at children as young as two years old, while the film is rated PG-13.

The group wants a uniform rating system so toys tied to PG-13 movies would not be marketed to children younger than 13. It also asked the FTC to investigate the marketing of PG-13 movies to children.

This Campaign thingie is full of it. Generally, the toys aren't really being marketed towards children. Maybe children that would fit the PG-13 rating, but younger than that not so much. Maybe the Slumblebee Maju mentioned and maybe Optimash Prime but the rest of it not so much.

http://www.amazon.com/Playskool-Potato-?tag=seibertron07-20& ... 704&sr=8-1

In all fairness, a Mr. Potato Head Optimus Prime does exist

Mr.RobotAutoMan wrote:

A child advocacy group, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, has complained to the Federal Trade Commission that ads and toys tied to the new Transformers movie are aimed at children as young as two years old, while the film is rated PG-13.

what? lol are you kidding me? i dont think its aiming at kids at all.

Yer I read that bit too, that is not true. Kids have a right to watch what they want to watch... this movie was more of a Teenager movie in my opinion, but to be surprised there were more grandma's and grandpa's than younger people.

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:I just saw the movie (Frikin' awsome, I might add), & I can see where an unsuspecting parent might get offended...particularly about the masturbation joke....but still, these people need to shut up & start raising their own kids instead of expecting the rest of the world to do it for them. If you don't want to safeguard your kids against the nasty side of life untill they're ready to handle it, don't expect others to do it for you.

Other than, these people just need to shut the hell up & let people enjoy their giant f**kin' robot movie.

EXACTLY!

neoakaj wrote:Well so was starwars ep3

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I would have loved this movie when I was 2-5 years old.