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A service to His little ones (which includes at-home teens) through you, their parents and grandparents, in His name by His Word MAR23003 Just Married (2003), PG-13 Analysis Date: January 10, 2003 CAP Score: 40 CAP Influence Density: 1.46 MinMax: -100 |
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 Production: 20th Century Fox Distribution: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation Director(s): Shawn Levy Producer(s): Guido Cerasuolo, Josie Rosen, Lauren Shuler Donner, Ira Shuman, Robert Simonds, Tracey Trench Written by/Screenplay: Sam Harper Cinematography/Camera: Jonathan Brown Music: Christophe Beck Film Editing: Scott Hill, Don Zimmerman Casting: Sheila Jaffe, Georgianne Walken Production Design: Nina Ruscio Art Direction: Troy Sizemore Definitely a film with about 1% on the blessings of marriage and 99% on everything against marriage. What a statement for the teens at which it is targeted! Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) even belched "I had the perfect relationship and it was ruined by marriage! Why does anyone get married?" His "perfect" relationship was with Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy) in premarital sex and cohabitation. And with her mother's approval no less. Tom and Sarah, after living together for a while [1 Cor. 7:2], get married and hop off to Europe for their honeymoon. Everything is bright, shiny and glittering. But then... [pause]. I wonder if there was any design to Brittany's last name being Murphy since this show is example after example of Murphy's Law which states anything that can go wrong will. It did. And they did. Go wrong. All because of marriage. God places His blessings on marriage. It is we who destroy it with selfishness, lack of commitment and lack of compromise. After plopping in bed in the Alps on their first day of their honeymoon... [pause again]. Remember when movies with newlyweds used to have the camera follow them to the motel/hotel room door, filming the husband carry the bride over the threshold, filming the door shut then fading off to something else? Well, now the camera follows the newlyweds into the motel/hotel room, joins them in their bed, in their shower, in their bathroom, in their everything. So did the camera in *Just Married*. At least the actor and actress were clothed in *Just Married*. Kutcher and Murphy may have been clothed but they were certainly not married. But a hooker who tried to seduce Tom was certainly not completely clothed. [Rev. 2:20] While in the Alps hotel, Tom just about burned it down by trying to force an America appliance into a European electrical outlet. Evicted for that, the newlyweds spent their next night in a snowbank after being forced off the road by an old lady acting with road rage to the behind-the-wheel rudeness of Tom. Finally reaching Venice, their room had walls so thin the newlyweds could easily hear every moan from the next room and even fell through one of the walls into the bedroom of the moaning couple who were, needless to say for a PG-13 movie, in bed. One treat they found in the bed in Venice was a cockroach about four inches long which parked itself on Tom's neck. Also in Venice appeared Sarah's old beaux who I think was Peter Prentis (Christian Kane). Prentis had not let go of Sarah. Prentis wanted to rekindle the old flame now that she is "taken" and seized the opportunity to make his move as Tom and Sarah split up in Venice, he to a bar showing a ball game (that conveniently has a belle wanting to be intimate with him) and she to the museums and the hotel room. The couple even end up in jail for something. This leads to that and this-n-that leads the newlyweds back to California, bitterly not speaking to each other. But after a few martial jabs and kicks, the couple get back together. *Just Married* is a teen sex show attempting justification with a plot using a married couple, trying to say it's okay since they are married, challenging and daring the thresholds of wholesome and moral. Well, as I said before, though Leezak and McNerney were married, Kutcher and Murphy were NOT. Even if Leezak and Murphy were married, showing their sexual escapades in and a entertainment would still be immoral. Some wisdom is provided by Tom's dad in his explanation to Tom that all the photos in a photo album are of good times: that the bad times happen between the pictures; that a marriage takes work by both. But the amount of assaults on wholesome morals and ethics drove this otherwise light comedy into the R-13 category. Among the issues of immorality were excessive breast exposure, sex talk, sexual suggestions, off screen intercourse, a man and woman in bed together repeatedly, two boys using light sabers to imitate erections. stripping to nudity for sex and attempting intercourse in an airplane bathroom [1Cor. 6:18]. But that is not all. More in the listing in the Findings/Scoring section. Other areas of assaults on decency include 23 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary [ Col. 3:8] plus two uses of God's name in vain with the four letter expletive and nine without [Deut. 5:11]. There was also drinking and drunkenness [Gal. 5:19 - 21]. All for your 13 year old children. Be sure to read the listing in the Findings/Scoring section before you decide whether to fill your 13 year old son or daughter with this movie. SCRIPTURAL APPLICATION(S) If needed to focus or fortify, applicable text is underlined or bracketed [ ]. If you wish to have full context available, the Blue Letter Bible is a convenient source. If you use the Blue Letter Bible, a new window will open. Close it to return here or use "Window" in your browser's menu bar to alternate between the CAP page and the Blue Letter Bible page. 1 Cor. 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication [sexual immorality], let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. ***Selected Scriptures of Armour against the influence of the entertainment industry*** As always, it is best to refer to the Findings/Scoring section -- the heart of the CAP analysis model -- for the most complete assessment possible of this movie. |
 Wanton Violence/Crime (W): Impudence/Hate (I)(1): Sex/Homosexuality (S): Drugs/Alcohol (D): Offense to God (O)(2): Murder/Suicide (M)(3): |
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| NOTE: The CAP Analysis Model (the Findings/Scoring section) makes no scoring allowances for trumped-up "messages" to excuse, for manufacture of justification for, or camouflaging of ignominious content or aberrant behavior or imagery with "redeeming" programming. Disguising sinful behavior in a theme/plot does not excuse the sinful behavior of either the one who is drawing pleasure or example of behavior or thought from the sinful display or of the practitioners demonstrating the sinful behavior. We make no attempt to quantify the "artistic" or "entertainment" value of a movie -- whether a movie has any positive value or "entertainment" value is up to mom/dad. The CAP analysis model is the only known set of tools available to parents and grandparents which give *them* the control they need, bypassing the opinion-based assessment of movies by others and defeating the deceit of those who would say anything to convince their parents otherwise. The model is completely objective to His Word. Our investigation standards are founded in the teachings and expectations of Jesus Christ. If a sinful behavior is portrayed, it is called sinful whether Hollywood tries to make it otherwise. That the sinful behavior is "justified" by some manufactured conditions does not soften nor erase the price of sin. Whether there is application of fantasy "justification" or "redemption" is up to mom/dad. |
| "There are some in the entertainment industry who maintain that 1) violent programming is harmless because no studies exist that prove a connection between violent entertainment and aggressive behavior in children, and 2) young people know that television, movies, and video games are simply fantasy. Unfortunately, they are wrong on both accounts." And "Viewing violence may lead to real life violence." I applaud these associations for fortifying 1 Cor. 15:33. Read the rest of the story. From our more than eight years of study, I contend that other aberrant behaviors, attitudes, and expressions can be inserted in place of "violence" in that statement. Our Director - Child Psychology Support, a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist concurs. For example, "Viewing arrogance against fair authority may lead to your kids defying you in real life." Or "Viewing sex may lead to sex in real life." Likewise and especially with impudence, hate and foul language. I further contend that any positive behavior can be inserted in place of "violence" with the same chance or likelihood of being a behavior template for the observer; of being incorporated into the behavior mechanics and/or coping skills of the observer. In choosing your entertainment, please consider carefully the "rest of the story" and our findings. |
