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17 Again Movie Review
The movie starts with Mike, a 17 year old with the world at his feet and a promising future, making a mistake that changes the course of his life. When we see him next (20 years later), his life hasn’t turned out as he had hoped. Remorsefully, he verbalizes his desire to be 17 again and he gets his chance. When he turns 17 again, he’s in High School with his son and daughter. With the mature perspective of an adult, he guides his children, and in the end Mike realizes that he made the right decisions so many years ago. He comes to love the life he once felt so much disappointment in.
Rating: Four out of five buckets
Release Date: August 11, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 12+
Sexual Content: Excessive
Violent Content: Mild
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
Drugs and Alcohol Content: Mild
Talking Points:
It’s a laugh out loud funny movie with great lessons about life. Throughout the movie young Mike discretely communicates to his children lessons about sexual responsibility and self-respect, which is good for the teen audience.
The movie is properly rated ( PG13). Not appropriate for the young High School Musical fans, that may want to see it because of Zac Efron. I interviewed some mom’s after the movie. One mom, with a 9 year old girl, said she held her breath a couple of times hoping things would go over her daughters head.
Sexual Content: Excessive
- When Mike’s in health class with his daughter, the teacher talks about abstinence, but then passes around a basket of condoms. Depending on the parent, and the age of the child, this could be an uncomfortable part, or it could spark a conversation for parents with their teens.
Violent Content: Mild
- Two characters get in a fight with swords and light sabers
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
- We hear several uses of the d-word, h-word and sometimes the a-word.
Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild
- Mike has a big high school party, though you don’t see kids drinking alcoholic beverages, many kids appear as though they’ve been drinking.
I feel the movie is appropriate for kids ages 12 and up. Parents may feel uncomfortable bringing kids ages 10 and under, because of the sexual content.
Overall it’s a funny, sweet movie, with likable characters. I give it 4 buckets.
Scary Movie 5-Teen Movie Review
Spooky things began to happen when Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan spent the night together, and were found dead the next morning. So Charlie’s brother Dan, and his rocker girfriend, Jody (Ashley Tisdale) adopted the deceased couple’s three young children. The new family experienced some unusual activity in their home, and eventually realized that they were being stalked by a demon… things got even stranger!!! Scary Move 5 is the fifth installment in the spoof series; a film I don’t recommend for kids!
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Rating: 0 out of 5 buckets
Release Date: April 11, 2013
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: None
Sexual Content: Excessive
Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive
Crude or Profane Language: Excessive
Drugs and Alcohol Content: Excessive
Will Kids Like It? No
Talking Points:
This is not a film for kids, it’s inappropriate and disgusting! However, parents need to be aware that kids may want to see this movie, as it stars Ashley Tisdale from Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and also the star in the High School Musical film series. Though rated PG13, with the excessive sexual content and language, it could have been rated R. To top it off, there are no redeeming qualities or great messages either!
Sexual Content: Excessive
- The opening scene shows Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan spending the night together.
- We see videos of Jody (Ashley Tisdale) sexually involved with strange objects such as a plant and microwave.
- We saw two naked women in the shower, covered with soap suds.
- While on drugs, Jody and her friend proceeded to have sex, we saw them in their bra and undies.
- There are a lot of sexual references with regards to body parts, incest, oral, sex, masturbation and more.
- The book Fifty Shades of Grey, was referred to in a dream involving whips and sexual toys.
Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive
- A group of possessed Christians physically mutilated themselves. To name a few of the things, we saw character’s cutting themselves with blades and power tools, a women sliced her tongue, another cut off her own arm, and a man sawed off his leg.
- Dan and Jody punched each other, and their adopted kids. This was done in a slapstick way, but still disturbing and not funny!
- Jody accidentally bumped her baby’s head on a door. A baby’s hair was set on fire, and a newborn was kicked across a stage. All this was meant to be done in a comedic way; though once again…not funny!!
Crude or Profane Language: Excessive
- The f-word was said once. “Sh-t,” “h—,” “a–,” “d–n,” and “b–ch,” are said throughout the film.
Drugs and Alcohol Content: Excessive
- Character’s take Ecstasy.
- We see characters drinking at parties.
- Two rappers steal a bundle of weed.
Will Kids Like It? No
Overall this was an inappropriate film, one I do not recommend for kids, or anyone for that matter!!! See Here Comes the Boom instead, it’s still in theaters.
Identify Theft – Teen Movie Review
The real Sandy Patterson (Jason Batman) is a happily married businessman, father of two daughter’s, and lives in Denver. The other Sandy Patterson, also known as Diana (Melissa McCarthy), is a single woman who likes to party, and lives in Florida; however this Sandy Patterson is a fraud. She has a credit card maker and manages to tap into strangers’ accounts and spend all their money. That’s what she did to the innocent, hard working man in Denver. So the adventure begins when the real Sandy Patterson travels to Florida to track down the thief that stole his identity. Identity Thief is an R rated comedy, raunchy in parts, with a kind-hearted message.
A Haunted House – Teen Movie Review
A Haunted House centers around the lives of a young couple named Malcom (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins). Life was going well, the love birds finally moved into their dream house in Los Angeles. Malcolm was so excited that he even decided to record everything. However, not long after they moved in together, strange things began to happen. There were unexplained noises, doors began to open by themselves, and their sex life was on hold. Malcolm eventually found out that it wasn’t the house that was haunted, it was the girl. Things began to get really interesting as Malcolm recruited a racist ghostbuster, a gay psychic and a just out of jail priest, to exorcise the ghost once and for all. A Haunted House is a comedy, horror spoof film, NOT for kids of any age.
Parental Guidance-Kids Movie Review
Artie (Billy Crystal) and Diane (Bette Midler) are a pair of old-school grandparents who agreed to babysit their three grandchildren, while the kids’ parents were out of town. However, they didn’t realize what they’d be getting themselves into. With the grandparents’ traditional ways, and the kids’ (and their parents) modern day ways, this made for an interesting few days. Parental Guidance is an entertaining movie which shows the importance of family and the generational difference that comes along with it. Continue reading