Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: 9- or 10-year-olds, due to scary material.

What you should know: This movie skews slightly older than the first "Spider-Man," particularly because it's about a man rather than a teenager. Robert Downey Jr. plays the comic book character Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who constructs his alter ego, Iron Man.

Language: A handful of expletives, including at least one use of God's name.

Sexual situations and nudity: Stark is a ladies man who invites a woman back to his home. We watch them kiss and see the woman in his bed the next morning and then wandering around in a man's shirt.

Violence/scary situations: This is where the movie earns its rating. Stark is kidnapped amid a fiery display and held captive and tortured (dunked in water, forced to undergo surgery) overseas. A minor character is shot to death, another person appears to die, and there are explosions, fires, falls, chases and deadly exchanges of weapons. Tony and many others are put in potentially fatal danger.

Drug or alcohol use: A fair amount of everything, from champagne to martinis and sake, is ordered or consumed.

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Mature high school students and older.

What you should know: Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan play decade-long best friends. When she goes to Scotland and returns with a fiance in tow, he agrees to be her "maid of honor," even as he realizes he's in love with her.

Language: One f-word, at least one use of "Christ" and a half-dozen milder curses.

Sexual situations and nudity: Lots. References to Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a college-age lothario, unmarried couples in bed, premarital negotiations about frequency of sex, a man's presumed bedroom prowess and racy sex toys.

Violence/scary situations: A waiter and a customer collide and there are some punches and pratfalls.

Drug or alcohol use: Plenty of alcohol served, consumed or, in one case, regurgitated.