Movie theatres are supposed to be a place where friends and families may come together and enjoy some entertainment. Its supposed to be a place where you expect the filmmakers and the studios to have done their jobs by filtering out whatever inappropriate elements there could be and target it to the correct audience.

Last Saturday, I took my two children to see Wedding Crashers, thinking that this would be suitable for youngsters. Within the first twenty minutes, I was shocked at how many curses went flying around and how much the filmmakers used sex to get cheap laughs. Granted, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are both sizeably efficient comedic actors, but the film in itself was so vulgar that I had to leave the theatre at once.

The same was true for Meet the Fockers. It seems to me that when Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller come together, they cant come up with funny enough material and they simply have to retort to using sex and vulgar language to lean on. Many years ago, comedies strictly based the plot on wit and the performances. Less is generally more and recently all the comedies that have come out since Theres Something About Mary (Dodgeball, Shallow Hal, Zoolander, etc