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Common Sense Media Reviews Summary

Common Sense Media has a rating of 1.7 stars from 55 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Common Sense Media most frequently mention and non profit. Common Sense Media ranks 93rd among Internet Safety sites.

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Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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There's not much to say that others haven't said, but they exaggerate violence, value diversity, positive role models, positive messages, and inclusive characters way to much, like there not being a diverse enough role of voice actors for the kung fu panda movies. They also label any popular franchise with too much consumerism. Of course a popular game like Minecraft is going to make things like plushies. For example, they only gave the entire Pokémon series 3 stars because "there's to much consumerism" when the actually series has no marketing, and the actual consumerism comes from outside of the series.

One thing that really made me mad was them praising megamind vs the doom syndicate for making the female characters more intelligent than most males. Thats not something to be proud of, thats just, woke and sexist. Also the fact that you have to pay to look at reviews is stupid. The only redeeming factor is that its funny to see adults complaining about dumb things because thats literally all you will see.
Also any game with even mild blood will be 18+ which is ridiculous. Literally any official review on this website is garbage. And the parents reviews aren't much better either. They are mostly just soccer moms complaining about words like "heck".

Just use the imdb parents guide its free and slightly better, or try kids in mind (It just says things as they are without opinions)

Date of experience: March 11, 2024
Colorado
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Useful for parents
February 9, 2024

I use Common Sense to find out more about the content of a film. Both the more and less positive aspects of a film often aren't apparent on a site like Rotten Tomatoes.

Date of experience: February 9, 2024
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Useless but funny
February 8, 2024

The entire thing is just boomers calling whatever they deem "inappropriate" bad, and basically always considering it detrimental to the quality of whatever game or movie they're $#*!ting on. There is some semblance of sanity in the non-"parent" reviews though.

Date of experience: February 8, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible website
November 20, 2023

Overall there website lagging cause' it to be difficult to even create an account sitting on an indefinite loading screen multiple times because there website either can't handle the foot traffic or just because of some problem within there website.

Date of experience: November 20, 2023
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Garbage
July 22, 2023

Backed by Gates, Mark Z and Benzos. Facts are left out to help with context. Everything has a leftist slant. Hopefully, find a news agency that has real common sense and just reports the news in full context. It's not this trash.

Date of experience: July 22, 2023
Texas
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I have used this site multiple times. In the language section, does not seem to be on point. I have downloaded another APP called VidAngel. 100 % no issues with language etc.

Date of experience: May 16, 2023
Hong Kong
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This site SUCKS BALLS
April 11, 2023

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Date of experience: April 11, 2023
New Mexico
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Years ago, I looked to this site as a good place to see if movies and or television shows were good for children. Then something happened. It's all about wokness. Any sort of Real review about how good the move you may be is thrown out the window. It's all about how diverse the cast is and any sort of inclusiveness- no matter how obscure.

Date of experience: March 17, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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"nonprofit" hahaha
February 18, 2023

The scumbags are trying to charge for user-generated content. Absolutely disgraceful.

Use kids-in-mind.com instead.

Date of experience: February 18, 2023
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Some of the age ratings they give are shocking. If any video game has some red mist in it, automatic 18+, because I guess it'll traumatized anyone under the age of 18. They even rated The Master Chief Collection 18+. I could've handled that game when I was 12. Terrible, money hungry website that claims to be non profit.

Date of experience: January 19, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Awesome patent site
January 8, 2023

Common Sense is a great site to expose inappropriate content that you do not want your children to see

Date of experience: January 7, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible awful site. They don't know what they're talking about and only negatives about it. *******

Date of experience: September 22, 2022
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I've read quite a few of their so called media reviews for movies. They are 100% bias and not based on fact for the most part. I have seen ratings from them on G rated childrens movies claiming that they are too sexual in nature because a man looks at a woman. Good idea. Horrid execution. They need to shut down their business and do something that's actually worthwhile.

Date of experience: August 1, 2022
Connecticut
1 review
4 helpful votes
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You have to pay to read more then 3 reviews a month and its all just some karens telling bull$#*! about TV shows and stuff. Imagine liking a show and then you go on this trash website with a bunch of karens saying that its violent. Also when you write a review sometimes it would say it contains alcoholic stuff for no reason. And the worst part is people actually believe in those dumb review and you know how it ends up. No fr about 5 people said spongebob squarepants was 18+ like the dumbest reasons. I can not believe that this website is still running its so Bad.

Date of experience: July 9, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I decided to see a review for a game my kid really wanted. Apparently saying the phrase "oh, for goodness sake" is a reference to a Japanese alcoholic beverage. I then decided to compare it to a movie I know that it's plot basically involves a teen taking drugs and being high as heck in the movie. They gave the game a 2/5 drinking/drugs rating, but the movie only a 1/5 rating for drinking/drugs. Also, one f-bomb is worse than basically a book containing all the other swear words except for f*ck.

Date of experience: June 20, 2022
California
4 reviews
16 helpful votes
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This website always get away with giving good movies bad reviews and it only cares about educational tv.

Date of experience: March 15, 2022
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A+ for actual common sense (as opposed to anyone's agenda). No one's perfect, but overall they have been as helpful as any critic, but with more info on the mood of a given movie.

Date of experience: January 30, 2022
GB
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Mass fake reviews
October 12, 2021

Once were good a year ago, since then they seem to have been "compromised" by the industry... split up reviews "by teens" and "by parents" obviously pitting children against parents, and attempting to basically shill for the movie/Netflix industry by playing down serious disturbing content, or making light of dangerous subjects (see their ridiculous "this is great story" reviews about Squid Game, something that NO CHILD should be watching, anyone under 18)

Date of experience: October 12, 2021
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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When Common Sense Media became available, I was very excited being that I am a big movie buff. I am very disappointed as to the blatant bias that they provide on so many movies. On some reviews they can be 500 words long and over detailed to the point where why? Other reviews can be one or two sentences that are very vague and give you no clue as to what the inappropriate content might be. I was really hoping for a service that I could count on but Common Sense Media does not fulfill that role.

Date of experience: September 11, 2021
Michigan
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Absolutely Bulls**t
July 11, 2021

Common Sense Media has, on multiple occasions, over-rated thing, countless video games rated 17 and 18+ Most of them being rated by a government organization (the ESRB) as E10+ or T. And they straight up lie about content, adding random things to up the age rating to fit their agenda, absolutely bulls**t. Do not use. (Also even though they claim to be a non-profit, they blatantly charge you money to read more than 3 "reviews", and you can even read them again) Again, DO NOT USE.

Date of experience: July 11, 2021

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We believe in media sanity, not censorship. We believe that media has truly become "the other parent" in our kids' lives, powerfully affecting their mental, physical, and social development. We believe in teaching our kids to be savvy, respectful and...


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