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Posted on October 19, 2004 at 2:51 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters smoke |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Frequent intense peril and violence, suicide, characters killed, many grisly and disgusting images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, strong woman |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
This is one of those “Don’t go into the house” movies, a remake of a popular Japanese horror film by Takashi Shimizu, the writer/director of the original. It is again set in Japan, but this time, it is a group of Americans at the center of the film. As a part of her training, an …
Continue reading “The Grudge”
Posted on October 17, 2004 at 6:49 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
Mild exclamations |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Frequent, intense (but not graphic) peril, characters killed, reference to suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, strong females |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), a superheroine whose limbs and torso can stretch the length of an Olympic swimming pool, pauses for just a second on the way to saving the world to check out her rear end in the form-fitting super-suit. Seems that after three children, there’s a bit of stretching there that doesn’t have anything …
Continue reading “The Incredibles”
Posted on October 13, 2004 at 7:50 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and graphic (puppet) sex |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters drink and smoke |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Graphic cartoon-style violence, characters get shot, blown up, etc. |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, strong women |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the team behind “South Park,” take such pleasure in being naughty that it makes their work more silly than smutty. It’s all just too cheerful to be shocking, even with a character made out of human excrement (the “South Park” television show), a singing sexual organ (the “South Park” movie), …
Continue reading “Team America: World Police”
Posted on October 6, 2004 at 5:57 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
A few strong words |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcoholism portrayed as charming and comic, nitrous oxide inhalation portrayed as safe and fun |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A lot of comic peril, car chases and explosions, shooting, characters injured |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
“Superman has kryptonite,” explains Washburn (Jimmy Fallon), showing that even the greats have their weaknesses. “Indiana Jones has snakes. Whitney Houston has Bobby Brown.” (Ba-dum-pump) He might as well have added that movies have former Saturday Night Live stars, who are brought in to sell tickets and add comedy to weak scripts just by virtue …
Continue reading “Taxi”
Posted on October 5, 2004 at 2:08 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language, n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
References to "getting laid," non-explicit sexual situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Underage drinking, adult character abuses alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Rough football skirmishes with bloody injuries, father is abusive to son |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, racist language, race is an issue in the final game |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
On the very first day of pre-season practice, Coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) tells his team, the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas, that he expects them to be perfect. By the end of the season, in that last half-time locker room pep talk, he tells them what that means. Being perfect does not …
Continue reading “Friday Night Lights”
