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Whatever It Takes (2000), (PG-13)
CAP Score: 35
CAP Influence Density: 2.70
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A service to parents and grandparents MAR20037 Whatever It Takes (2000), (PG-13) CAP Score: 35 CAP Influence Density: 2.70 |
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 Christian Banner eXchange For FREE text-only analysis reports as they are calculated, send an email with SUBSCRIBE CAP-MAR in the message body. NOTE: We make no scoring allowances for Hollywood's trumped-up "messages" to excuse, or its manufacturing of justification for aberrant behavior or imagery. This is NOT a movie review service. It is a movie analysis service to parents and grandparents to tell them the truth about movies using the Truth. If you do not want the plot, ending, or "secrets" of a movie spoiled for you, skip the Summary/Commentary. In any case, be sure to visit the Findings/Scoring section -- it is purely objectuve and is the heart of the CAP Entertainment Media Analysis Model applied to this movie. SUMMARY / COMMENTARY: Whatever It Takes (PG-13) -- even it's title says it all. Whatever it takes to get what you want. In this case it was a date for the prom, I think. Whatever It Takes was nothing more than a teen sex flick and a 'too much independence and autonomy too soon' flick. Another movie to steal childhood from children. CAP Thermometer (Investigation Area) reading was sub-zero in sex. A very, very bad example for what needs to be wholesome respect for and inhibiton from sex for the typical PG-13 audience -- just after puberty and down to 10 years old and less. Not to mention the very bad example in language. The CAP Thermometer for language was also sub-zero as was the Thermometer for booze/drinking. So, immoral sex, foul language and illegal consumption of alcohol/drunkenness were the three strongest presences in Whatever It Takes -- three of the most difficult social and moral battles for older preteens and early teens. This movie earned a CAP Final Score well into and about half way to the bottom of the range of scores for R-rated movies and AGAIN due to the saturation of the movie with lesser and "pushing the limit" issues of aberrant behavior instead of a number of massively invasive issues typical of R-rated movies. I cannot remember much of the specifics of this teen sex flick, but then I do not need to. The recording logs say enough. I can remember a few specific scenes prompted by the logs such as sadomasochistic sex, almost complete nudity (male), see-though outfits on girls, teen drunkenness, and a girl sucking a guy's index finger. Oh, yeah. A five-foot phallus as a teaching aid for sex education -- with a like-sized condom. But as far as a plot or any logic is concerned, I am at a loss. But then, what does that say about the movie. It is nothing more than getting dollars by feeding innate sinful desires, thus promoting and perpetuating moral decay. Anyway, who cares? We are not in this to tell you about the plot and theme and message and ... whatever. We tell you the truth about moves using the Truth. I'll bet I will get a lot of hatemail on this one crying of how realistic it was. Well, IF it is realistic, with 'entertainment' like this it is no wonder 'real life' is the way it is. From our home page: "For so long movies have been given so much credit for "being like real life" that real life has become like the movies." Because of the incredible array of ignominy in this movie, I am going to let the Findings/Scoring section speak the truth about this movie. And you may trust that the listing is NOT exhaustive -- I can write only so fast. While the listing may not be exhaustive, it certainly says a lot about this movie...and its writers, producers, choreographers, cast....... In an effort to improve the chances of the continuation of these reports, this Summary/Commentary section will be progressively minimized and may eventually have to be discontinued. Please see the Findings/Scoring section below for a full accounting of this movie: for the best representation of the CAP Entertainment Media Analysis Model applied to this movie. FINDINGS / SCORING: 
NOTE: Multiple occurrences of each item described below may be likely. Wanton Violence/Crime (W): Impudence/Hate (I)(1): Sex/Homosexuality (S): Drugs/Alcohol (D): Offense to God (O)(2): Murder/Suicide (M)(3):  |
