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Posted on March 1, 2005 at 8:03 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-explicit sexual situation, sexual language, pole dancers in skimpy costumes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Action violence, characters shot, beaten, and killed, dead body |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, racial and homophobic epithets |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“I won’t say any more than I have to, if that.” That’s John Travolta as Chili Palmer in Get Shorty, and it’s a great character, a great line, and a great movie. Chili says it again in this watered-down sequel. And then he says it another time. That pretty much sums up the problem with …
Continue reading “Be Cool”
Posted on March 1, 2005 at 8:03 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
Some crude schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
A lot of diaper humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Characters in peril, kick-boxing and off-screen shooting, cartoonish and action-style violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
Some stereotypes and cliches |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This crass, crude, and overly familiar formula comedy has Vin Deisel as Shane Wolf, an all-business Navy Seal who has to play babysitter for five children in the suburbs. He’s all about securing perimeters and drop-and-give-me-twenty. They are undisciplined and acting out following the loss of their father, but they know how to love. Result …
Continue reading “The Pacifier”
Posted on February 27, 2005 at 12:22 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and sexual threats- |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, intense, and graphic violence, many injuries and deaths |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Three combustible forces come together in one fortress of a mansion in this bloodbath of a hostage drama. First is Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), a former big-time hostage negotiator who was shattered by a tragic failure and gave it up to become a small-town police chief. Second is three strung-out teens who decide to steal …
Continue reading “Hostage”
Posted on February 25, 2005 at 6:22 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, skimpy clothes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Scenes in bar, social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A lot of action violence including gunfire, characters wounded and killed, brief graphic images |
| Diversity Issues: |
A strength of the movie is its diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“One riot, one Ranger.” That’s the Texas Rangers pledge. But apparently, it now needs to be revised: “Five cheerleaders, three Rangers.” Tommy Lee Jones, in gloriously full crag mode, plays a Texas Ranger named Sharp assigned to protect cheerleaders who witnessed a murder. This provides opportunities for many culture clashes and learning experiences. Unfortunately, most …
Continue reading “Man of the House”
Posted on February 24, 2005 at 1:52 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual situation, some nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
A lot of smoking, drinking, abuse of medication, character abuses drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense, disturbing, and graphic images, violence (including guns), murder, reference to child molestation, shock therapy |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
A Gulf War veteran whose injuries have left him with an uncertain memory walks along a highway then stops to help a mother and daughter whose car has stalled. He gets the car started, but the mother is high and disoriented and screams that he should get away from her daughter. So he keeps walking …
Continue reading “The Jacket”
