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In the grand Disney movie "subliminally embedded filth or regrettable accident?" tradition of The Little Mermaid's Aroused Minister (in which a bony knee looks a lot like an erection) and Aladdin's "Good teenagers, take off your clothes," slashfilm.com investigates rumors of an F-bomb being dropped in their latest PG-rated insta-classic, Enchanted:
[I]t happens when the bus driver exits the bus. Listen closely. Someone with a new york accent appears to shout the F-word.
So did you hear it? Isn't that crazy? How sure are you?[B]ecause the New Yorker in question doesn't actually say:
"Get the F*CK out of there!"
Listen again, one more time, and you will find that he actually says
"Get that BUS out of there".
We direct you now to slashfilm.com to examine the scene in question, and decide for yourselves whether the phrase uttered by an anonymous voiceover thespian specializing in disgruntled New Yorkers was innocuously referring to the "steel beast" vanquished by Prince Edwards, or instead offers a distressing indication of just how far family films are now willing to go in pandering to parents forced to sit with their kids through a fractured fairy tale instead of the screening of No Country For Old Men in the theater next door.
- F*cking Enchanted: The F-Word in a PG Movie? [slashfilm.com]
Comments
You totally saw Enchanted this weekend, huh?
It was that or August Rush at the local theater! Oh, who am I kidding, I was third in line behind two 8-year-old girls that could probably have beaten me up.
I think movies and commercials do this on purpose. To titilate the ears.
It does sound an awful lot like an f-bomb. Ha! That's mad funny.
The following statement may require me to relinquish my Film Geek credentials, but I saw both Enchanted and No Country last week, and liked Enchanted way more. That said, if Javier Bardem had led a musical number that featured pitbulls, horses, and drug-runners pirouetting over the Texan plains, I might have given the Coen brothers the edge.
Maybe they say "Get the funk out!" like in Prince's "Batdance."
It was such a great movie- other then naming the princess after an underwear model
I will admit that I say it this weekend too. I will also admit that I liked it, except for the part when the NYC cockroaches cleaned the bathtub.
If I had to see this movie, the F-bomb's from the bus driver wouldn't be the only one's you'd hear...
Well, what can you expect from a company that features a pantsless duck?
This is so stupid. A New Yorker would only ever say "Get that f**king bus outta here". F**k and Bus are never used separately, yo.
Count your family-valued blessings. At least Disney didn't have to digitally decrease Amy Adams' breast size in this flick like they did to Lindsay Lohan's in that "Herbie" remake. God forbid your own little princess grows up with more than a low B-cup, eh?
I, too, both saw and enjoyed this. I feel like I should be ashamed of this fact, but perhaps, at long last, my sense of shame has finally died. Just as well, as it was preventing all manner of fun.
If the word "fuck" was used in this film, surely it would be followed by "me, James Marsden".
What a motherbussing load of ship.
@Greg Johnson: Ever since I, at the tender age of 17, read in Rolling Stone about the crew teaching the young boys on the original 'Mickey Mouse Club Show' to masturbate at the bathroom urinals, I have cast a wary eye on America's premier purveyor of cheesily addictive children's entertainment.
So a random 'fuck' in a child-centric piece of cheesily addictive children's entertainment that is designed to be demanded by children every holiday season until Bush and Cheney bomb the entire world back into the Stone Age doesn't phase me much.
But I am still puzzled about how the Standells got away with 'lovers, fuckers and thiefs' in 'Dirty Water' all those years ago.
Does anyone else remember that penis on the cover of The Little Mermaid tape? And how it took Disney literally like 5 years to figure it out and remove it? Good times.
@schmalerie: Some of this is stirred up by that looney closet case god-botherer Donald Wildmon in Mississippi who whips his sheep into emailing frenzies when someone's dress is too low cut on 'Desperate Housewives' and such silliness.
Could just be me, but I heard Bus and not the F-bomb.
Saw it, loved it.
@schmalerie: yes! on the top of the castle---i remember that.
i also remember hearing about the Minister's Boner in The Little Mermaid, the "Take Off Your Clothes" before they get onto the magic carpet in Aladdin, and how the dust settling after Mufasa's death in The Lion King supposedly spelled "sex" in the air.
Aren't there more Disney sex rumors? I stopped watching Disney films after The Lion King.
@youknowverse: The entire plot of Lilo and Stitch revolves around assfucking.
@youknowverse: I think you pretty much covered most of the ones I've heard about. There is this one though:
[www.snopes.com]
Saw it, loved it, husband was actually counting his blessings that he was home sick with the flu and couldn't accompany his mother and I to the theater. (We didn't miss him with McDreamy and James Marsden for company.)
Saw this over the weekend.. it wasn't as bad as I had expected. I totally heard "bus," not "fuck."
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