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Family Film Guide: 'Bratz,' 'Hot Rod,' 'The Bourne Ultimatum'
Friday, August 03, 2007

The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'Bratz'

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: School-age children and older.

What you should know: The fashion dolls are now the focus of a live-action movie, with four actresses playing Yasmin, Jade, Sasha and Cloe. They're high school students who drift into different cliques but realize they miss their friendship, which a self-absorbed, controlling classmate sees as a threat.

Language: Nothing objectionable.

Sexual situations and nudity: A couple of chaste kisses.

Violence/scary situations: Very mild, as in a food fight and kids tumbling into a swimming pool.

Drug or alcohol use: None.


'Hot Rod'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Tweens and above.

What you should know: "Saturday Night Live" regular Andy Samberg plays a self-proclaimed stuntman, which gives the movie license to stage lots of stupid stunts that go awry.

Language: One use of the f-word and many milder but still offensive four-letter words.

Sexual situations and nudity: Kisses are exchanged and a tasteless tattoo of a urinating boy shown.

Violence/scary situations: Many instances where Samberg misses the mark on his scooter or motorcycle and slams into immovable objects he is trying to jump. Also lots of physical fights, falls, other accidents, brief rioting, plus an account of a graphic death. It's largely stupid, played for laughs and repetitive.

Drug or alcohol use: Young men drink beer or shop for a cart full of booze, and an acid trip ends at the hospital.


'The Bourne Ultimatum'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Mature high school students and older.

What you should know: Matt Damon again plays Jason Bourne, an amnesiac assassin who is desperate to discover who he was and what turned him into a killer.

Language: Use of "Jesus Christ" now and then and some four-letter words that could turn up on TV.

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: Violence is steady, with car chases and crashes, hand-to-hand fighting, a deadly explosion, fatal shootings, torture, hooded figures and a couple of dead bodies.

Drug or alcohol use: Almost none, other than a shot of the occasional beer in a restaurant.

First published at PG NOW on August 2, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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