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Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Mild |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some revealing costumes, mild reference to adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Lots of fighting, scary surprises, some yuckiness |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2001 |
It may still be spring outdoors, but this is the first summer movie of the year. Grab some popcorn and settle in for some old-fashioned movie fun, the best in this genre since the gold standard of adventure movies, the Indiana Jones series. Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz return as Rick and Evie O’Connell, now …
Continue reading “The Mummy Returns”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
“Professor” Harold Hill (Robert Preston) is a con man posing as a salesman of band instruments and uniforms. He happens upon River City, a small town in Iowa. As the citizens explain in song, Iowa is a place of stubborn people who keep to themselves unless someone needs help. But Hill happens upon an old …
Continue reading “The Music Man”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Not explicit, but very tense and creepy |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2001 |
Way back before computer graphics, movie makers knew how to scare us through what the movie didn’t show us. They knew that no one knows what scares us as well as we do ourselves, and that anything we could imagine would be far more scary than anything they could put on the screen. “The Others” …
Continue reading “The Others”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild references to prostitution, attempted seduction, strong argument for chastity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters abuse alcohol and smoke |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Several scenes of peril, characters die |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2001 |
This gently retro story of a young Morman missionary in the Pacific Islands of Tonga loses some wholesomeness points due to some smug insularity. It takes John Groberg (Christopher Gorham) 83 days to get to the tiny Tongan island where he will be stationed for two years, following his graduation from Brigham Young University. His …
Continue reading “The Other Side of Heaven”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Mild |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Very graphic violence, including battle scenes, suicide, children in peril, major characters killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
White character learns to respect black character in slavery era South |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2000 |
As I watched this movie, I kept thinking of the tagline from “Jaws 4:” “This time it’s personal.” Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, a veteran of the British army who was a hero during the French and Indian war. Twenty years later, he has no love for the monarchy but some skepticism about the alternative. …
Continue reading “The Patriot”
