Reader comments: Once

MARK RUBINFELD | Jun. 30, 2007
The R rating for this movie is completely misleading as there is far less objectionable material in this film than in most PG-13 rated movies. If you are uncomfortable with hearing swear words in a film, than this film is not for you. On the other hand, considering the age and vocation of the film's two main characters (a pair of twenty-something musicians living and working in Ireland), it would have been unrealistic not to have included these swear words as part of their everyday vocabulary. Either way, this is not (or at least should not have been) an R rated movie. Rather, it is a PG-13 movie that realistically includes some crude language, along with one or two drug depictions that were so minimal and tangential that I don't remember seeing them. What I do remember seeing was an incredibly sweet movie, with magical music, that reminded me (in ways that I haven't been reminded of in a long time) just what a wonderful experience it is to experience a wonderful movie. If there is an obscenity to be found, it is in a "Ratings Board" that would give this film an R rating, scaring so many people away, while, at the same time, giving a film like "Live Free or Die Hard" (what a "blast" it is to watch all of those people get blown up) a PG-13 "pass".

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