The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'TMNT'

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Preschoolers to teens and nostalgic adults will enjoy most.

What you should know, dude:The fun-loving Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aren't having so much fun in this animated film. Leonardo is honing his leadership skills, Michelangelo is entertaining at kids' parties, Donatello is an IT tech and Rafael has become a lone vigilante. Then an ancient curse unleashes monsters on modern-day New York -- will the masked green brothers in arms reunite in time to save the city?

Language: Not unless you object to the occasional "Cowabunga!"

Sexual situations and nudity: An unmarried animated couple shares an apartment, and they kiss.

Violence/scary situations: The story features family angst, tensions and betrayals, plus lots of animated violence on big and small scales. Four stone generals and 13 monsters (some scary, some comical) cause tons of damage to buildings. The most tense scene is brother vs. brother in a rainy rooftop fight.

Drug or alcohol use: None.

'Pride'

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Tweens and above.

What you should know: Terrence Howard plays Jim Ellis, a former Pittsburgher and Westinghouse High School graduate who started a successful swim team for young African-Americans in Philadelphia.

Language: Mild three- or four-letter words but lots of them, plus a couple of racial epithets.

Sexual situations and nudity: Some talk and jokes.

Violence/scary situations: Racially motivated confrontations and vandalism lead to punches and kicks. References are made to someone having been shot.

Drug or alcohol use: A fringe character is a drug dealer, and beer is consumed by an adult and offered to a teen.

'Reign Over Me'

Rated: R.

Suitable for: Teens and older.

What you should know: Adam Sandler stars in this movie; however, it is not a comedy but a drama in which he is a man whose wife and three children died on 9/11. When he reconnects with a college roommate, Don Cheadle, both men's lives are changed.

Language: Adult, with the f-word sprinkled throughout.

Sexual situations and nudity: None, although there is talk of oral sex and women's breasts.

Violence/scary situations: A man becomes upset, smashes framed pictures and starts to attack someone. A suicidal character flashes a gun in an effort to get the police to shoot. It's upsetting to hear an account of a mother and her three young daughters killed in a plane crash on 9/11.

Drug or alcohol use: Adults drink wine or beer, and one drowns his sorrows in alcohol.

'The Last Mimzy'

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Children roughly 8 and up.

What you should know: This is based on a Henry Kuttner short story from the 1940s that has been updated. It's about a young brother and sister who find what they think is a box of toys on a beach, but they're from another time and give them mysterious abilities.

Language: A couple of mild four-letter words.

Sexual situations and nudity: Adults briefly kiss.

Violence/scary situations: The little girl is upset by the prospect that the world could end. She levitates and shakes as if having a brief seizure. Agents storm a house and haul a family off. A 10-year-old boy steals and drives a truck. A character is lifted by a sort of force field but no one is hurt.

Drug or alcohol use: Nothing notable.