The other day, we were looking for a movie for the girls to watch and we came across Charming on Netflix. It is rated TV-Y7, so we didn’t give it too much thought. It is animation and about princesses, a perfect combination.
Plot
The premise is: Prince Charming is cursed with a smile that attracts all the girls in the land to him, causing quite some trouble with the other men in the kingdom. The curse will be broken when he gets married before his 21st birthday or all love will be lost in the kingdom.
Review
We turned the movie off within the first ten minutes, if we even made it that far. Two reasons contribute to this. The main reason is a painting hanging in the castle. The prince is painted naked with only his hands covering his private area. While it is animated and not live action, keep in mind the Y7 rating. And while it isn’t exactly nudity, it is normalizing it. This isn’t innuendo where adults get the joke but it goes over the kids heads. It is a deliberate move to normalize nudity to younger ages.
The second reason is the prince is engaged to Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Not exactly the kind of man we want our girls to romanticize. And not a quality fitting for boys to aspire to. I certainly wouldn’t want my girls dating a man like that.
Conclusion
As far as the quality of the movie, who knows, Charming on Netflix may be good, or it may not be. But the first ten minutes showed that it was not appropriate for its Y7 rating. We need to guard the hearts of our children and not expose them to programming that is detrimental to moral thought. There is no place for “comedic nudity” in a movie that is geared to younger children.
