‘OBLIVION’

Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, brief strong language, and some sensuality/nudity

What it’s about: A technician overseeing the ruins of Earth starts to wonder if this world is as doomed as he’s been told it is.

The kid attractor factor: Science fiction, cool spaceships and gadgets, and loud, insistent action.

Good lessons / bad lessons: “If we have souls, they are made of the love we share.”

Violence: Quite a bit, some bloody.

Language: Some scattered profanity.

Sex: Skinny dipping, and all its temptations.

Drugs: A cigar is smoked.

Parents’ advisory: Plot twists may elude the very young, but the violence and sensuality are PG-13 mild. Suitable for 12 and older.

‘SCARY MOVIE 5’

Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some drug material, partial nudity, comic violence and gore

What it’s about: Sketch parodies based on the current crop of horror films.

The kid attractor factor: Ashley “Sharpay” Tisdale, fleeing all manner of “Paranormal Activity.”

Good lessons / bad lessons: There’s no movie so frightening that it cannot be parodied and mocked to death.

Violence: Yes, with a smidgen of gore.

Language: Profanity, though not much of it.

Sex: Simulated for comic effect.

Drugs: Pot is consumed.

Parents’ advisory: As juvenile as these movies are, they’re still a bit rough for 12 and younger. Take the PG-13 seriously.

This guide, compiled by Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Moore, is published here every Friday. It should be used with the MPAA rating system for selecting movies suitable for children. Films rated G, PG or PG-13 are included, along with R-rated films that may have entertainment or educational value for older children with parental guidance.