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Posted on August 13, 2005 at 10:31 am
B
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Low-key wartime violence including plane crash |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Like its title character, this little animated film has heart and charm. What it will have trouble finding is an audience to appreciate it. This is a computer-animated film with a G rating that assumes its viewers will understand references to Edith Piaf and the Invasion of Normandy. If there are any children out there …
Continue reading “Valiant”
Posted on August 12, 2005 at 9:31 am
B-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
mild profanity |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Scantily clad character, non-explicit male and female nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking and smoking, drunken mob behavior |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Racial killings, characters wounded, frequent peril, references to voodoo-like practices, spooky atmosphere, issues related to hospice care and death of loved ones |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Buoyed by Gena Rowlands’ magisterial presence, this mediocre little bit of hoodoo-voodoo mystery casts enough of a spell to propel it through the trancelike lethargy of the first 80 minutes until it double, double, toils and troubles to reach its frenzy of a finale. “Skeleton Key” is neither magic nor mundane but for some it …
Continue reading “The Skeleton Key”
Posted on August 12, 2005 at 7:05 am
A+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Preschool |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong language, including n-word and other racial epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and situations, pornography, some non-sexual nudity, same-sex kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and mild violence, brief clips from horror movie |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, "gay" used as all-purpose insult |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
January 1, 1970 |
Andy (Steve Carell) collects “action figures” from movies, comic books, and television series, maintaining them with curatorial scrupulocity in their meticulously preserved original packaging. He is pretty meticulously preserved himself. Like his collection, he is an action figure who gets no action. Andy is, as the title says, a 40-year-old virgin. Andy is a sweet …
Continue reading “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”
Posted on August 5, 2005 at 6:31 am
A-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, sexual references and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Fight |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters are friends |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
George Orwell said that by age 50 every man has the face he deserves. Now in Hollywood, by age 50 it’s more likely that movie stars pretty much have the faces they can buy (are you listening, Cher? Meg Ryan? Burt Reynolds?). We are all grateful to those, like Bill Murray, who know how to …
Continue reading “Broken Flowers”
Posted on August 2, 2005 at 8:29 am
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, sexual humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drug use, drug humor |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extensive action violence with many car chases and crashes and explosions, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
Some stereotyping of women as bimbos, issue of whether displaying the Confederate flag is racist |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
If you think that seeing a nutty fat guy in saggy white underpants blowing things up is funny, then this movie might be for you. Otherwise, don’t bother. The single biggest challenge for a “lunchbox movie” (a movie that gets produced because some studio executive once had the lunchbox from the television show) is to …
Continue reading “The Dukes of Hazzard”
