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ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP Ministry) www.capalert.com/ Entertainment Media Analysis Report A service to His little ones (which includes at-home teens) through you, their parents and grandparents, in His name by His Word MAR23126 (2003), PG-13 Analysis Date CAP Final Score CAP Influence Density MinMax December 12, 2003 51 out of 100 1.20 -100

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SUMMARY / COMMENTARY: If Scriptural references appear, the full text appears at the end of the Summary / Commentary likely using a mix of KJV and NIV. (2003), PG-13 -- ... no chemistry or sparkle to speak of ... Cast/Crew Details Courtesy Internet Movie Database Production (US): Universal Pictures, Marc Platt Productions Distribution (US): Universal Pictures Director(s): Bille Woodruff Producer(s): Andre Harrell, Billy Higgins, Marc E. Platt Written by: Alonzo Brown, Kim Watson Cinematography/Camera: John R. Leonetti Music: Rodney Jerkins, Ludacris, Mervyn Warren Film Editing: Mark Helfrich, Emma E. Hickox Casting: Aisha Coley, Michelle Morris Production Design: Jasna Stefanovic Art Direction: Anastasia Masaro Remember Glitter from 2001? Substitute Honey (Jessica Alba) for Billie (Mariah Carrey) and you'll have a close facsimile of Honey except there are no doo-wap background singers in Honey since Honey Daniels is not trying to be a professional singer but a dancer in and choreographer of music videos. She finds a sugar daddy, Michael Ellis (David Moscow), a bigtime music video producer to help her through the ropes of climbing the ladder to notoriety. But, as with most Hollywood portrayals of sweet and innocent young girls trying to make it big in the performing arts, Ellis' help comes at a price; an immoral price. Coming from teaching kids who to dance rap at a community center and from bartending, Honey is focused on getting into the professional world. She's good. And she knows it. Not in a conceited way but in a factual way. Not once did Alba come across as conceited. While working at the bar one knight, Ellis "discovers" Honey and offers her a chance to work on his music video crew. Sooner than might reasonably be expected, Honey is on the dance floor with the hot group Jadakiss, choreographing dance moves for their new music video. It takes Ellis a while but he eventually makes his sexual move on Honey. Insert tab A into slot A and you have the plot. There is no chemistry or sparkle to speak of, but there is some great dance routines and music. But there is also a splattering of ... Twenty-three uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary pelted the viewer's earpans [Prov. 22:11; Col. 3:8]. And the saturation of the film with lots of below-navel belly skin (and I don't mean just one or two inches below the navel), some vulgar dance moves plus dressing to maximize the female form and/or skin exposure with a dash of excessive cleavage and a hefty sprinkling of sexual comments/innuendo evaporated all of the starting 100 points in the Sexual Immorality investigation area [1Ths. 4:3 - 7]. Kids dealing in drugs was expensive to the Drugs/Alcohol score [Luke 17:2]. With a final score of 51 out of 100, Honey is a "lite" "R-13" . The listing in the Findings/Scoring section provides all that was noted. SPECIAL NOTE: We will be reducing the volume of coverage in the Summary/Commentary section of our reports and the number of reports generated in an effort to reduce costs until full funding can be achieved. The Findings/Scoring section of each report, the heart of the analysis model, will NOT be reduced in any way. Thank you for your patience as we diligently search for funding. Anyone who wishes to volunteer to help us locate 501(c)(3) nonprofit funding and sponsors is encouraged to notify me. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SCRIPTURAL APPLICATION(S) If needed to focus or fortify, applicable text is underlined or bracketed [ ]. If you wish to have full context available, the Blue Letter Bible is a convenient source. If you use the Blue Letter Bible, a new window will open. Close it to return here or use "Window" in your browser's menu bar to alternate between the CAP page and the Blue Letter Bible page. Prov. 22:11 He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend. Col. 3:8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 1Ths. 4:3 - 7 It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his [or her] own body [which includes control of drives, touching, seeking, lusting (even after images), promiscuity, etc.] in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. ***Selected Scriptures of Armour against the influence of the entertainment industry*** Ps. 12:8 The wicked freely strut about [e.g., create progressively vile/offensive entertainment with impunity and no consequences and present it to younger and younger audiences every year] when what is vile is honored among men [when enough people continue to defend it, embrace it, pay for it, enjoy it, want it, submit to it. I call attention to Ps. 12:8 to warn of the creeping desensitizing power of "entertainment."] Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man [by his influence] spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 1 Cor. 15:33 (KJV) Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (NIV) Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character. Rom. 5:19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. Jude 4 For certain men* whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change [warp, distort, falsely represent, situationally redefine, counterfeit, conditionally apply] the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. [*men: anthropos {anth'-ro-pos}, generic, a human being, whether male or female] Matt. 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto [or for] one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto [or for] me. Luke 17:2 It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. [cause by teaching or example] Ps. 119:133 Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 1 Thess. 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo As always, it is best to refer to the Findings/Scoring section -- the heart of the CAP analysis model -- for the most complete assessment possible of this movie.

FINDINGS / SCORING: Wanton Violence/Crime (W) threat sexual harassment, repeatedly adults coaching adolescents to steal adolescent theft child beating (off screen) resulting in marking of the child Impudence/Hate (I) 23 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary massive tattoos Sexual Immorality (S) self touching during dancing woman manually shaking her own anatomy during dancing additional vulgar dance moves, repeatedly, some mimicking intercourse sexual comments./innuendo, repeatedly, some by adolescents men ogling at women dressing to maximize the female form and/or skin exposure, repeatedly many instances of below navel skin exposure, threatening to expose pubic hair suggestive eye movement excessive breast exposure "gay" bar camera angle to force viewer onto private parts attention-drawing text on posterior, repeatedly tattoos drawing attention to private parts flashes of posterior nudity Drugs/Alcohol (D): bar, repeatedly booze, repeatedly drinking, repeatedly adolescent drug dealing Offense to God (O) one use of God's mane in vain without the four letter expletive Murder/Suicide (M) none noted

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