A few passionate kisses -- two between teens one couple is shown after obviously having hooked up -- or at least having slept in the same bed together and others between random couples at a party full of twentysomethings. A single mother's much younger boyfriend has spent the night at their house and kisses her in front of her kids. Language includes "s--t," "bitch," "ass," "asswad," "boobs," "damn," "crap," "lame," "hell," "sucks," "oh my God," etc. There's also a crude joke about how a teen girl has applied Nair to her bottom.
Partygoers drink and smoke cigarettes. Underage teens drink at a high school party. There's drinking and driving. Parents need to know that because Fun Size is from Nickelodeon Studios and features Victorious star Victoria Justice and her on-screen little brother, many parents and kids might assume that it's OK for young kids and tweens.
But this is definitely a high school comedy. The humor, innuendo, and violence -- however comedic they might be -- are inappropriate for Nickelodeon's TV audiences, though far less raunchy than R-rated comedies like Superbad and The Sitter. On the bright side, the movie does encourage teens to look beyond the superficial when it comes to romantic partners and to appreciate and look after your family and close friends.
Expect some language "s--t" and more , underage drinking, implied teen hook-ups, and some scuffles and threats. One teen character has two moms. Add your rating See all 10 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 48 kid reviews. High-school senior Wren Victoria Justice is still grieving the death of her father when school hunk Aaron Riley Thomas McDonnell asks her to his exclusive Halloween party.
That motivates Wren to get into costume, but her widowed mother Chelsea Handler wants to party with her young boy-toy, so Wren is forced to take her mute, candy-loving, Spider-Man-dressed little brother, Albert Jackson Nicoll , trick-or-treating instead.
After losing track of him, Wren enlists help from smitten nerd Roosevelt Thomas Mann and her best friend Jane Levy to find her missing brother. Eight-year-old Albert, meanwhile, ends up on his own Halloween adventure, which includes helping a convenience store manager get revenge on the guy who stole his ex-girlfriend.
Some of it is legitimately funny -- like when Handler, dressed like school-girl Britney Spears , shows up at her younger boyfriend's party only to realize in horror that she doesn't want to party like a year-old anymore. And then there's Roosevelt's lesbian Earth-mothers improv masters Ana Gasteyer and Kerri Kenney , who insist on speaking to him in ancient languages and demand absolute truth at all times.
The majority of Fun Size , however, feels slapped together, lacking focus and downright confusing to audiences expecting family entertainment from production studio Nickelodeon and its popular starlet, Justice. Albert is certainly more entertaining than Wren, whose story arc is predictable to anyone who's ever seen a teen movie. With his chubby cheeks and devious grin, Albert is reminiscent of Ralphie from A Christmas Story and makes you root for him.
Unfortunately, the movie itself isn't deserving of the same. Families can talk about what message it sends when a kid-oriented company puts out media that's meant for older audiences. Who do you think Fun Size is intended to appeal to? Does it succeed? What life-changing lessons do the characters learn throughout the night? Is it believable that Wren would choose Roosevelt over Aaron?
Can you think of a movie in which a "plain" but smart girl triumphs over the pretty but popular one? How does the movie depict teen drinking? Are there realistic consequences? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
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What responsibility do viewers have in determining what kinds of movies will be made in the future? Victoria Justice also stars in the TV series Zoey Thomas McDonell shows up as another attractive bad boy in Prom.
Other characters challenged by babysitting duties include The Court Jester , Mrs. Doubtfire and The Pacifier. Fun Size Parent Guide Families may be fooled into thinking this trashy title is intended for pre-teens, when it really isn't even appropriate for teens. Overall D.
Release date October 26, Violence C-. Run Time: 87 minutes Official Movie Site. Get Content Details. The Guide to our Grades. About author. Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since A teenager loses her little brother while trick-or-treating, and recruits three friends to help find him before her mother gets home from a big Halloween bash. Joy is invited to a Halloween party by her much younger boyfriend, and in order to go, she agrees to finally sign the papers if Wren will take her little brother Albert Jackson Nicoll trick-or-treating.
Unfortunately, that means Wren will have to skip the party she was planning to attend with her best friend, the brash, status-seeking April Jane Levy.
Clad in a Spider-Man costume with a mask that covers his head, Albert, who has not spoken since his father died, starts hitting the local houses with his sister. But soon the little troublemaker slips away, befriends a convenience-store clerk, and gets kidnapped by a total jerk Johnny Knoxville.
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