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Posted on November 13, 2005 at 6:05 pm
D
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and situations for a PG-13 |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, including drunkenness, prescription drug abuse played for humor |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic violence with comic but graphic injuries |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
The worst thing about this movie is not how dumb it is, or how much talent it wastes. The worst thing is not how crude it is or how ugly the humor (more accurately, intended humor) is, and how cynically it exploits the inadequacies of the MPAA in attempting to provide parental guidance. No, the …
Continue reading “Just Friends”
Posted on November 13, 2005 at 9:37 am
A
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some very mild teen romance |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic action, characters injured, character killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
No recap. No amusingly horrifying opening appetizer at the Dursley’s house. No intriguing Diagon Alley detours. Someone shouts at Harry to hold on and he is whooshed into his next adventure as we are whooshed along with him. It turns out he’s been told to grab on to what looks like a boot, but what …
Continue reading “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
Posted on November 11, 2005 at 3:10 pm
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Infrequent but extremely strong language and blasphemy |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Implied rape, references to adultery, statutory rape and abortion |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters drink, smoke and refer to drug using and dealing |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Explicit physical violence, beatings, threats and murder, characters die, psychological abuse run throughout |
| Diversity Issues: |
Inter-racial friendship |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This movie sets out for intense, psychological thriller but ends up in an unrealistic dead-end thanks to misguided casting, implausible character development and a whole lot of bad behavior on the part of nearly everyone onscreen. “Derailed” indeed. Stuck on the same train as this lot, many audience members might prefer to walk. Like the …
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Posted on November 11, 2005 at 2:44 pm
A-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong and harsh language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations, including adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and drug abuse, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Character killed (graphic wound), some additioanl mild peril, tense emotional confrontations, drug detox |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
At first it just seems like a pulse. Then we realize it is a sound. Then we realize it is a very loud sound, muffled because it is on the other side of some very thick walls. Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is about to perform at Folsom Prison, and the inmates are calling for him …
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Posted on November 8, 2005 at 7:27 pm
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
Brief crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild references to married sex, teen kissing, crude homophobic humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Teen drinking, housekeeper has a martini |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A lot of slapstick violence, some peril, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
Multi-racial siblings |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This one is straight off the sit-com conveyer belt, all pratfalls and spit-takes. What little gloss it gets from star power is buried under forced humor about a pet pig (The pig swallows a cell phone! The pig eats the wedding cake!), about predictable “Odd Couple”/red state vs. blue state style culture clashes (The hippie …
Continue reading “Yours, Mine & Ours”
