‘Something Borrowed’ Rating: PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, and some drug material.

What it’s about: A young woman comes to terms with the fact that she’s in love with her best friend’s fiance.

The kid attractor factor: It’s a romantic comedy with that fellow from “The Office” and Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson.

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Sometimes, good people do bad things” and other lame excuses.

Violence: None.

Language: Not a lot of profanity, but a lot of sex talk.

Sex: Discussed, in detail.

Drugs: Booze in bars, which leads to bad decisions.

Parents’ advisory: Not a lot here for younger kids, even if they got the innuendoes. OK for 13 and older.

‘Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil’

Rating: PG for some mild rude humor, language and action

What it’s about: Granny, a secret recipe and Hansel and Gretel are missing. Can Red Riding Hood and her pal, the wolf, save them?

The kid attractor factor: A fairy tale mash-up in animated 3-D

Good lessons/bad lessons: “A person can never really fail unless they give up.”

Violence: Cartoon punchings, squishings, etc.

Language: A “dammit Jim” “Star Trek” joke.

Sex: None

Drugs: Cocktails.

Parents’ advisory: OK for all ages, but if the kids were old enough to have seen the original in theaters (2005), they’ve outgrown this one.

‘Prom’

Rating: PG for mild language and a brief fight.

What it’s about: Assorted kids at a suburban high school obsess about the year-end dance and all it portends.

The kid attractor factor: Attractive teens coping with young love, awkwardness and their first serious thoughts of “the future.”

Good lessons/bad lessons: Don’t get too caught up in expecting that “one perfect moment,” because to most kids, prom isn’t all that.

Violence: One fist fight.

Language: Disney clean.

Sex: Flirting and the occasional smooch.

Drugs: None

Parents’ advisory: Disney’s version of high school lacks the “real” problems of “real” high schools, but that makes it suitable for all ages.

‘African Cats’

Rating: G

What it’s about: Two competing prides of lions and a lone cheetah mom are followed in this nature documentary.

The kid attractor factor: Cute animals struggling with nature in all its harsh, rough-edged glory.

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Never get fresh with an ostrich” and the like

Violence: Lion attacks, a croc attack, hyenas, nothing terribly gruesome.

Language: Disney clean

Sex: None

Drugs: None

Parents’ advisory: Gentler, more entertaining and far prettier than the very similar “The Last Lions,” this is suitable for the whole family.

‘Rio’

Rating: G

What it’s about: A rare blue macaw is sent to Brazil to mate and save his species, only he doesn’t get along with the female macaw, and they’re bird-napped.

The kid attractor factor: Animation, funny birds, slapstick, samba music.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Exotic birds were never meant to be pets because it drives them to extinction in the wild.

Violence: Cartoon slapstick.

Language: Disney clean.

Sex: Brazilian babes on the beach in Rio.

Drugs: Does chloroform count?

Parents’ advisory: Far and away the smartest, sweetest and funniest film from the folks who made those “Ice Age” cartoons, suitable for the whole family.

‘Hop’

Rating: PG for some mild rude humor.

What it’s about: Guy hits the Easter Bunny with his car and must help him recover and realize his rock ‘n’ roll dream.

The kid attractor factor: A smart-mouthed, rock-drumming animated bunny, and James Marsden, the goofy prince from “Enchanted.”

Good lessons/bad lessons: Sooner or later, you will meet your destiny.

Violence: A car accident, mild cartoon peril.

Language: Disney clean.

Sex: Nary a hint.

Drugs: Nary a whiff.

Parents’ advisory: Harmless, this blend of animation and live action is aimed at the very youngest filmgoers. Suitable for all ages.

‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules’

Rating: PG for some mild rude humor and mischief.

What it’s about: The Wimpy Kid makes his way through seventh grade and a rough-and-tumble relationship with his teenage brother.

The kid attractor factor: It’s the second movie based on the popular and funny Jeff Kinney books, with tweens and teens as its stars.

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Don’t be good at something you don’t want to do” and other teen slacker credos.

Violence: None to speak of.

Language: “Holy moly!” is about as rough as it gets.

Sex: Teen and tween flirtation, an underwear gag.

Drugs: None.

Parents’ advisory: Aimed squarely at the middle school and younger set, it’s perfectly fine for 6 and older.

‘Mars Needs Moms’

Rating: PG for sci-fi action and peril.

What it’s about: A little boy stows away on a spaceship when his mother is abducted by aliens.

The kid attractor factor: Animation by the “Polar Express” folks, based on a Berkeley Breathed kids’ book.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Words can wound, and there is no limit to a mother’s love.

Violence: Alien laser guns and the threat of asphyxiation in the vacuum of space.

Language: Disney clean.

Sex: A little interspecies flirting, and blushing.

Drugs: None.

Parents’ advisory: More plot-heavy than jokey, this one may be tough on the 6-and-younger set but perfectly engrossing for 7 and older.

‘Red Riding Hood’

Rating: PG-13 for violence and creature terror, and some sensuality.

What it’s about: Red Riding Hood’s medieval village is menaced by a big bad WEREwolf.

The kid attractor factor: Young people in lust in a fairy tale from the director of “Twilight.”

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Our methods of pleasing God are sometimes … flawed.”

Violence: Slashings, stabbings and a hand is bitten off.

Language: Fairy-tale friendly.

Sex: Interrupted.

Drugs: Ale and wine.

Parents’ advisory: Aimed at that “Twilight” demographic, this is just as sexual, has a bit more blood plus a little swordplay — OK for 13 and older.

‘Rango’

Rating: PG for rude humor, language, action and smoking.

What it’s about: A pet lizard escapes into a desert town where the other varmints make him the sheriff.

The kid attractor factor: It’s animated — and the voices are provided by Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin and others.

Good lessons/bad lessons : “People have to believe in something. Right now, they believe in you.”

Violence: Animated mayhem, a hawk is dispatched, gunplay.

Language: Some profanity — not much, but more than you’re used to in a children’s cartoon.

Sex: Heavens, no.

Drugs: Cigarettes, cigars and drinks in a saloon.

Parents’ advisory: A bit rougher and more adult-oriented than your typical kids’ toon; suitable for 10 and older.

‘Beastly’

Rating: PG-13 for language including crude comments, brief violence and some thematic material

What it’s about: A spoiled, rich high school student is condemned to look like a beast until he can win the love of someone.

The kid attractor factor: Vanessa Hudgens is the Beauty, Alex Pettyfer is the Beast.

Good lessons/bad lessons: True beauty isn’t skin deep, and “parents do what they do with what they know.”

Violence: A shooting, punches are thrown.

Language: A sprinkling of profanity, leaving out the dirtiest of dirty words.

Sex: A little making out.

Drugs: Drug abuse is a minor subtext; some teen partying.

Parents’ advisory: Surprisingly smart with good messages and a hint of edge. OK for 12 and older.

‘Hall Pass’

Rating: R for crude and sexual humor throughout, language, some graphic nudity and drug use.

What it’s about: A couple of immature husbands are given a week off from marriage by their wives.

The kid attractor factor: Comedies this dirty always draw the “let’s sneak into THIS one” tweens.

Good lessons/bad lessons: When it comes to our romantic glory days, we all remember things through rose-colored glasses.

Violence: Fisticuffs, a shooting spree.

Language: Just filthy.

Sex: Full-frontal nudity, vulgar sexual situations.

Drugs: Booze and brownies.

Parents’ advisory: The nudity and crudity rule this out for anybody younger than 15.

‘Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son’

Rating: PG-13 for some sexual humor and brief violence.

What it’s about: An FBI agent drags his son undercover with him to protect the kid, both of them disguised as women.

The kid attractor factor: Guys in heavily padded dresses pretending to be plus-size women.

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Every day you don’t demand respect, you die a little.”

Violence: A murder, shootouts.

Language: Squeaky clean.

Sex: Women in semi-undressed states.

Drugs: None

Parents’ advisory: Childish enough to appeal to young kids, with content appropriate for 10-and-older.

‘I Am Number Four’

Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and for language.

What it’s about: Good-looking teens who live among us were the “gifted” on their home planet, and those who destroyed that planet are hunting them here on Earth.

The kid attractor factor: Aliens and ray guns and beasts and Alex Pettyfer and that cute blonde from “Glee”

Good lessons/bad lessons: Don’t take stupid risks with your life because you’re needed “for a higher purpose.”

Violence: Plenty of fistfights and dagger duels but not much blood

Language: Maybe six swear words — not the “big” ones, though

Sex: Hot teens making goo-goo eyes at one another

Drugs: None

Parents’ advisory: This action-adventure is sort of a teen sci-fi “Twilight” without the threat of sex; suitable for 11 and older.