Sunday, June 12, 2011
Family Film Guide: 'Super 8' and 'Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer'
Posted by eightq at 12:14 PMThe Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:
'Super 8'
Rated: PG-13.
Suitable for: Children roughly 9 and older.
What you should know: This movie is from director J.J. Abrams ("Lost," "Star Trek") and producer Steven Spielberg and it's both a valentine to their boyhood moviemaking -- the title refers to Super 8mm film -- along with a thriller about a freight train accident in a small Ohio steel town in 1979 and the alarming aftermath. It ultimately carries the message that, as one character says, "I know bad things happen but you can still live."
Language: About three uses of "Jesus" as an exclamation along with a dozen mild four-letter words.
Sexual situations and nudity: None.
Violence/scary situations: The movie opens with the aftermath of a funeral for a woman crushed by a steel beam in an Ohio mill accident. Teens making a movie run for their lives from a spectacularly violent freight train accident. People are snatched or disappear, a man is held captive and uses force to escape and there are fires, a widespread evacuation and halt to normal life, deadly attacks and the late in the movie appearance of an enormous, scary creature.
Drug or alcohol use: Pot use along with some adults drinking, one to excess.
'Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer'
Rated: PG.
Suitable for: School-age children and up.
What you should know: Characters from the popular book series come to life in a live-action movie with a few animated sequences sprinkled in. Judy, fresh from third grade, has big plans for the summer but they change when two of her best friends go out of town and her kooky aunt comes to visit. Cast includes Jordana Beatty as Judy, Heather Graham as her aunt and Jaleel White as a teacher.
Language: None.
Sexual situations and nudity: None.
Violence/scary situations: Reckless driving, spills and mishaps, a trip to scary movies and the like. All told, quite mild.
Drug or alcohol use: None.
First published on June 10, 2011 at 12:00 am
Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11161/1152589-121.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml
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