Not for kids, unless you choose of course.

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2006)

I'm sure there are plenty of reviews here advocating how good the movie is, so that topic I won't discuss. A lot of people do mention how this movie is not appropriate for kids. I am all for not taking, say, a seven year old or younger, because they will naturally be repeating all sorts of things. Howver, I find that depending on the amount of maturity you instill upon your kids is the proper basis. The ratings on movies is based on a general audience, and you know your kids better than they do. I am sixteen years old right now, and I first saw the BL&U when I was only ten years old. Not because I saw it at a friends house, because I said to my mom at the store and said, "Ooo I love South Park! Can we get the movie?" She said of course we could. I watched it over and over again.
People have this notion that letting your kids see graphic movies will ***k them up for later. I admit, I'm no perfect child, but for someone who has see slasher movies since he was two and has had outing to see things like "Scary Movie" and rented flicks such as George Carlin and Mallrats in my youth, I find that all of the vulgarity, nudity, gore, and innuendos has had very little effect on me as a person. It is all about how you treat your kids. Babying them will most likely result it a shock when they see said movies, but if you treat your kids right and don't sugar coat EVERYTHING, then you will find that they have a higher point of maturity.
When people think of someone like me raised the way I was, they think of some screwed up kid who does all sorts of crazy stuff because my mom didn't care about what I saw. In reality, I am a A and B student who is perfectly respectful of people with a real future. I think a lot of that comes from this. It may seem like movies wouldn't have such an impact, but I think that seeing such graphic material, then being able to hear the real meaning from an adult and not from my friends let me begin forming my own opinions about things at an early age and helped my maturity a bit.
The lesson here, don't baby your kids. I may not be a parent myself, but I know how I was raised and I have seen the result of overprotective parents on some of my friends.Letting your kids see movies where there is drugs, sex, or violence WON'T make them want to do any of those if you know how to talk to them about it. Seriously, expose your kids to these things while they are young so that YOU, the PARENT are the ones who can first explain it to them, instead of the kids who truly ARE bad news and can give them the wrong idea.