The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'Scary Movie 4'

Rated: PG-13.

Best for: Mature high school students and older.

What you should know: This is the fourth installment of the franchise and it spoofs such movies as "Saw," "The Village" and "Brokeback Mountain." Its rating is, in part, for crude and sexual humor throughout.

Language: One f-word and a nearly constant stream of three- and four-letter words permissible under the PG-13 designation.

Sexual situations and nudity: The effects of an accidental Viagra overdose are very, very exaggerated for comic effect. Leslie Nielsen's bare backside is on display, and a room full of people also end up naked but briefcases, folders and other items conceal private parts. Couples are shown kissing, and the movie has many jokes or crude gestures about or mimicking sex.

Violence/scary situations: Pratfalls, lightning strikes, alien abductions, dismemberment or threats of it, all played for laughs and some involving a girl spoofing Dakota Fanning in "War of the Worlds."

Alcohol and drug use: A scene is set in a bar where characters order beer.

'The Wild'

Rated: G.

Best for: School-age children and up.

What you should know: When a young lion living in a New York zoo is mistakenly shipped to Africa, his father and his pals -- a squirrel, giraffe, snake and koala bear -- go after him. Voice talent includes Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Janeane Garofalo, Eddie Izzard, Richard Kind and William Shatner. May remind a lot of parents and children of last year's "Madagascar," which arrived first and was better.

Language: None.

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: The separation of father and son is scary, but the dad is never far away. In the city, the zoo animals run from snarling dogs and alligators (who actually prove helpful) and later encounter wildebeests, vultures and situations in which a beloved character appears to be injured but turns out to be fine.

Alcohol and drug use: None.