Isn’t It Romantic | 2019 | PG-13 | – 3.3.6

Why is “Isn’t It Romantic” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language, some sexual material, and a brief drug reference.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few kissing scenes, many references to sex and attractiveness and being worthy of love, a few shirtless men and women wearing cleavage revealing outfits, a fight and a car accident that leave a woman unconscious and a woman struck by a limousine and a food cart, competitive work environments, conversations about being invisible and inconsequential, references to using and selling marijuana, and 1 F-word with nearly 10 bleeped but mouthed F-words. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.”

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Fantasy about a young woman (Rebel Wilson) who does not feel attractive and is generally disenchanted with love, until she finds herself transported right into a romantic comedy. Suddenly, in this reality she has all the shoes she likes, can eat all the ice cream she wants and attracts the handsomest fellows, all amidst fresh flowers and pinkish hues. Also with Liam Hemsworth, Adam Devine, Priyanka Chopra, Betty Gilpin, Brandon Scott Jones, Jennifer Saunders and Alex Kis. Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson. [Running Time: 1:28]

Isn’t It Romantic SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A man and a woman kiss in a hallway and the woman pushes the man against the wall, pulls his shirt open to reveal his bare chest and abdomen and the scene cuts to the morning where she lies in bed and the man comes out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist (we see his bare chest, abdomen and lower legs).
► A scene repeats several times and it is suggested that a woman in bed wants to have sex with a man standing in the doorway with a towel wrapped around his waist; she invites him to bed and he drops his towel as he leaves the frame and the scene cuts back to the morning with the woman asleep (reminiscent of a sequence in a romantic comedy with a specific rating). Two men kiss. A woman gets out of bed and jumps on a man as he stands in the doorway with a towel wrapped around his waist.
► A woman trips, a man catches her in a dip position and they kiss. A man and a woman kiss. A woman touches a man’s clothed chest and asks if he’s been working out. A man and woman push between another man and woman as they flirt in a park. A woman hugs a man in a couple of scenes. A man kisses a woman on the cheek. A man kisses a woman on the head. A man touches a woman’s hand and they look at each other. People in a bar dance during a musical number with hip thrusting and gyration; one woman wraps her leg around a man’s waist.
► Several scenes show a billboard outside an office window with a woman wearing a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders. We see a few scenes from “Pretty Woman” and one shows a woman in a bathtub covered with bubbles (we see her bare shoulders and cleavage) as a man sits outside the tub and asks her to go away with him. A woman in bed wears a low-cut T-shirt that reveals cleavage. A woman’s skirt reveals her legs to the thighs. A woman wears low-cut tops and dresses that reveal cleavage in many scenes throughout the movie. A woman wears deeply cut dresses that reveal cleavage, partial side breast and bare back in a few scenes. Men and woman wear swimsuits poolside (we see bare chests, abdomens, backs and legs on men and cleavage, bare abdomens, legs and backs on women). A woman holds her clothed breasts while running. A woman steps out of a limousine wearing a low-cut evening gown that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders and a man says, “Wow.” A woman pulls off her dress to reveal another dress underneath (we see cleavage and bare legs to the thighs) and she dances with men and women on a street with gyrating and hip thrusting.
► A woman trips and when a man catches her, he calls her “adorable.” A man makes orgasmic sounds. A woman hands a man several notes that were accidentally pinned to her door and calls them “love notes.” There are several references to both men and women being “hot.” Two women stare at a man as he enters an office and call him “hot.” A woman talks about clichés of romantic comedies including no diversity, the gay best friend, etc. A woman makes a joke about trampolining nude in public. A character says, “I’m so sexy.” A woman accuses a man of faking being gay. A woman makes a comment about the size of a man’s genitals and then tries to compare it to something for context. A woman tells another woman, “I missed you an unhealthy amount.”

Isn't It Romantic VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 - A man tries to take a woman's purse, she holds it and kicks him in the groin, he continues to pull on the bag and they fight over it, she retrieves it and slams into a metal girder hitting her head and knocking herself unconscious. A woman crashes a car and is knocked unconscious; when she wakes up a doctor tells her that she has been in a medically induced coma and when she pulls an IV line out of her arm blood sprays on the doctor's face. A food cart barrels out of control on a street and crashes into a woman, knocking her down and the cart owner tells her, "You're built like a truck." A woman steps into the street and is struck by a limousine (she is unharmed). A woman tries to jump a subway turnstile and trips (she falls flat on her face). A woman chokes in a café and a man performs the Heimlich maneuver on her.
► A woman walks toward the edge of a train platform as a train approaches and she is pulled back by a police officer as it passes; the officer puts her in handcuffs for jumping a turnstile. A man breaks into an ice cream shop after hours. A man pushes a woman in a rolling office chair, through the office until they are confronted by their boss. A woman throws an alarm clock out of her apartment window and a voice calls out from the street saying, "Thank you." A woman throws a bouquet of flowers out of her window and a man's voice from the street calls out, "Thank you." A woman trips and a man catches her. A man spins around and knocks a tray of food out of a woman's hands. A woman sings karaoke in a bar and walks along a tablet top, trips and falls hard on the floor. A woman bursts into a church to stop a wedding.
► A woman wakes up in a hospital bed and she panics when a doctor compliments her and she tries to run away; she remarks that they are "harvesting her eggs." A woman tells a young girl about having to put "Prozac on the popcorn or they'll kill themselves," when describing a movie. A woman says to another woman, "You're going down." A woman says that another woman has a "resting murder face." A woman tells a man that they need to leave a place before "they bite us or impregnate us." A woman says that a tablecloth smells like "fetal alpaca." A woman teases a man about his favorite ice cream flavors. A man talks about his neck fat and that his fiancée calls him "mush." A woman says, "Look, all those rich ladies have crabs," and we see them all with crab legs on their plates. A woman speaks to another woman in a confrontational manner in a few scenes.
► A dog defecates on a rug and we see feces.

Isn't It Romantic LANGUAGE 6

 - At least 1 F-word, 9 F-words and an F-word derivative are mouthed and accompanied by bleeps or train horns to cover them up, 3 obscene hand gestures, 1 sexual reference, 17 scatological terms (1 bleeped), 3 anatomical terms, 9 mild obscenities, name-calling (doll, idiot, hunky, dumb, cliché, extra invisible, weird, not meant for the spotlight, Matrix for lonely women, half-dressed, princess, animal, predictable, coo-coo, unrealistic, tacky, mush, gay Beetle Juice, psychopath, crazy, ugly, quirky queen, happy whore, disgusting, horrible person, mad with ambition, insulting, toxic, stupid, blind to love), exclamations (oh dear, wow), 2 religious profanities (GD), 31 religious exclamations (e.g. Good God, Oh My God, Oh God, Thank God, Jesus, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Isn't It Romantic SUBSTANCE USE

 - A woman tells a young girl about having to put "Prozac on the popcorn or they'll kill themselves" when describing a movie, a man smokes in his apartment (it is implied to be marijuana), and a man says that he sells marijuana. A man and a woman drink wine with dinner, a woman drinks 4 shots of liquor in quick succession, people drink champagne at a party, and people drink at a bar.

Isn't It Romantic DISCUSSION TOPICS

 - Happy endings, romantic comedy movies, manipulation, objectification, lies, shallow people, being worthy of love, careers, relationships, love, flaws, friend-zoning, destiny, insecurity.

Isn't It Romantic MESSAGE

 - Find happiness in yourself. Happy endings can happen in real life so love yourself.