Romance
Romance movie reviews
The Fault In Our Stars-Kids Movie Reviews
There’s nothing like young love!!! It feels like the sun is always shinning and you’re overwhelmed with joy. However with teenager’s Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) it’s not that simple. Though they are madly in love, they’re both suffering from a life-threatening disease…cancer. The young couple meet at a cancer support group and it’s love at first sight. With their upbeat attitude and love for one another they learn to cope with their fatal disease and make the best of a horrible situation. The Fault In Our Stars, based on a best-selling young adult novel, is a comedy and a heartbreaking love story, one that will appeal to teenagers, especially girls!
Rating: 3 and 1/2 out of 5 buckets
Release Date: September 16, 2014
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 13+
Sexual Content: Moderate
Violent Content: Mild
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
Drugs and Alcohol: Moderate
Will it Appeal to kids/teens? Yes
Talking Points:
Hazel and Gus go through a lot ups and downs, however they make the most of what they have and find joy in their lives. Great parent/child discussion.
While the subject matter is intense, the film is also funny with likeable characters.
Sexual Content: Moderate
- We see a teenage couple kissing in a parking lot and the boy squeezes the girl’s breast.
- Hazel (17) and Gus (18) have a sexual encounter. They passionately kiss in bed while taking off their shirts and her bra. We don’t see them naked, as they’re covered by the sheets.
Violent Content: Mild
- Gus’s friend Isaac throws some of Gus’s sport’s trophies against a wall and demolishes them in a fit of anger.
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
- The f-word is said once, we also hear “a–,” “b–tard,” “h—,” “b–ch,” and “d-mn.”
Drugs and Alcohol: Moderate
- Gus continuously puts an unlit cigarette in his mouth…he claims it’s a metaphor.
- In Amsterdam, where the drinking age is 16, Gus and Hazel drink champagne at a fancy restaurant.
- One of the characters is an alcoholic, we see him continuously drinking out of a flask.
Will it Appeal to kids/teens? Yes
The theater was filled with pre-teen and teenage girls. I interviewed a group of girls from Northern Hills Middle School, who all loved it. Some comments were:
- ” There’s enough boom boom boom, this was a touching , but sad love story.
- “It was so real.”
Overall this was a wonderful, though sad, teenage romance. Parents need to be aware of the moderate sexual content. Depending on the child, I recommend this for kids ages 13 and up.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2- Kids’ Movie Review
The graduation march “Pomp and Circumstance ” was playing as Valedictorian Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and her boyfriend Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) receive their high school diplomas. Now they have to face the real world. Being the good and moral guy he is, Peter tells Gwen that he can’t see her anymore. Though he’s madly in love with her, he had promised her dying father that he would stay away from Gwen, due to his dangerous double life as Spider-Man. Now Peter must try to move on and face his role of saving lives as a superhero. Continue reading
Endless Love-Teen Movie Review
Aah…one’s first love is always memorable, especially for high school graduates Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) and David Elliot (Alex Pettyfer). Jade is a very privileged and beautiful seventeen year old girl heading for Brown University in the fall. David(Alex Pettyfer) is a part-time valet hoping to take over his father’s auto shop, with no plans to attend college. Even though the two teens went to high school together, David never had the courage to talk to Jade. So when he asks her to go on a joyride in a Maserati (a car he was supposed to park, not drive around) things change forever and the young couple fall madly love. However it’s not all bliss for the teens as Jade’s father will do whatever it takes to keep them apart. After all… no one is good enough for his little girl. Endless Love is a remake of the 1981 Brooke Shield’s movie about the joys and hardships of a teenage romance.
Rating: 3 and 1/2 out of 5 buckets
Release Date: March 27, 2014
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 13+
Sexual Content: Excessive
Violent Content: Mild
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
Drugs and Alcohol: Mild
Will it Appeal to Teens? Yes
Talking Points:
Even though Jade’s father thinks he’s that David isn’t good enough for his daughter, David truly respects her, loves her and ultimately wants her to be happy.
Parents need to be aware of the sexual content. The young lovers are madly in love and have many sexual encounters without much thought or consideration of the consequences. Great parent/child conversation.
The film is very predicable and a little corny.
Sexual Content: Excessive
- The young lovers have their first sexual encounter in the Butterfield house. David sneaks into their home late at night, we see sexual movements as the couple lie under the covers near a glowing fireplace.
- Throughout the film Jade and David kiss, cuddle, make out and even bath together.
- There’s a brief scene showing an extramarital affair.
Violent Content: Mild
- A character punches another character.
- There is a car crash scene, we see the injured character in the hospital with several cuts and a broken wrist.
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
- The f-word is said once. We also hear, “d–n,” “a–,” “h—,” and “p—.”
Drugs and Alcohol: Mild
- We see teenagers drinking out of red cups…assuming it’s alcohol.
- Adults are shown drinking alcohol at a party.
- There’s talk of teenagers getting high.
Will it Appeal to Teens? Yes
- The theater was filled with teenage girls. I interviewed two seventeen year-olds. They loved the movie and said, “It has the perfect amount of fluff, just what teenage girls want on Valentine’s Day.”
Overall Endless Love is a romantic drama, one that teenage girls will enjoy. Parents need to be aware of the sexual content throughout the film.
That Awkward Moment-Teen Movie Review
“So, where is this going?” That’s the question that Jason hates, and that’s when he decides to end it with a girl he happens to be dating, or just sleeping with. This is the story about three best friends from college, now in their twenty’s and working in New York City. Jason (Zac Efron) is a lady’s man who fears commitment, Daniel (Miles Teller) is Jason’s “wingman” who always helps him find his next girl, and then there’s Mikey. Mikey is a doctor who thought he found true love, but caught his wife cheating on him. After hearing Mikey’s news the three boys make a pact to avoid a serious relationship. They want to be carefree, play video games, and pick up girls at the bars. Initially this plan sounds great to the boys… but is it really what these college graduates want? That Awkward Moment is a R-rated comedy about the awkward moments of dating and relationships.
Rating: 2 out of 5 buckets
Release Date: May 13, 2014
MPAA Rating: R
Best Age Group: 17+
Sexual Content: Moderate
Violent Content: Mild
Crude or Profane Language: Excessive
Drugs and Alcohol: Moderate
Will it Appeal to Teens? No
Talking Points:
These three singles guys, especially Jason, lie to women and treat them poorly, however they ultimately learn their lesson and quickly mature. They find out what’s important in a relationship and how to treat respectfully treat women.
This film seems as though it would appeal to teens; with Zac Efron, from the High School Musical series, Seventeen Again and many other popular pre-teen films, and Miles Teller from Footloose. However, the plot is boring and not much too it. This could have been a really good movie like St. Elmos Fire from the 80’s, though it’s not entertaining and not well done.
Sexual Content: Moderate
- We see several couples in a sexual encounter, though their private parts are covered we see explicit sexual motions.
- Jason (Zac Efron) goes to a party wearing a dildo attached to the outside of his pants.
- There are sexual references regarding oral sex, masturbation, condoms, pornography and male and female private parts, throughout the whole movie.
- The three guys in the film take Viagra before having sex; there are many jokes about that as well.
Violent Content: Mild
- One character punches another.
Crude or Profane Language: Excessive
- The f-word, “sh-t,” “p—,” “d-nm” ,”b–tard,” “d–k,” “p—y,” and “c–k,” are said throughout the whole movie.
Drugs and Alcohol: Moderate
- The characters socially drink throughout the film.
Will it Appeal to Teens? No
That Awkward Moment is an R-rated comedy, which is not that funny. See Anchorman 2 instead! Parents need to be aware of the excessive language and moderate sexual and alcohol contents.
Hunger Games: Catching Fire-Teen Movie Review
The 74th Annual Hunger Games were finished and the winners, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), were ready to go home to District 12 and be with their family and friends. However there wasn’t much time at home due to the “Victory Tour” they had to attend. Visiting each district and pretending to be madly in love was next on their agenda. Continue reading