“WALKING WITH DINOSAURS”

Rating: PG for creature action and peril, and mild rude humor.

What it’s about: Dinosaurs talk, joke, migrate, fight and die in the late Cretaceous period.

The kid attractor factor: Dinosaurs, doing what dinosaurs did, joking around about it as they do.

Good lessons / bad lessons: “Don’t die in vain.”

Violence: Yes, and characters die, the way real dinosaurs died.

Language: Dino poop and dino poop jokes.

Sex: Flirting, jokes about “head-butting season.”

Drugs: None.

Parents’ advisory: Packed with information about dinosaurs and dino behavior, kids old enough to read will get more out of it — suitable for 7 and older.

“TYLER PERRY’S A MADEA CHRISTMAS”

Rating: PG-13 for sexual references, crude humor and language.

What it’s about: Madea goes to Alabama where she heals a broken relationship or two, teaches children “The Nativitease Story” and sets a racist straight.

The kid attractor factor: Madea, one angry cussing black woman.

Good lessons / bad lessons: “A lie. The longer you let it live, the harder it is to kill.”

Violence: A punch is thrown, bullying.

Language: Mild Madea profanity.

Sex: Viagra jokes and the like.

Drugs: White lightning is displayed, not consumed.

Parents’ advisory: The least edgy Madea movie, this one is OK for ages 10 and older.

“ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES”

Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, drug use, language and comic violence.

What it’s about: Those 1970s blow-dried TV news dopes invent cable news and its obsession with celebrities and car chases in this ditzy sequel.

The kid attractor factor: Will Ferrell & Co., cutting up and cracking wise and pushing that PG-13 envelope.

Good lessons / bad lessons: News is supposed to be telling “people what they need to know,” not “giving them what they want to hear.”

Violence: Slapstick knees to the groin, etc.

Language: Salty ’70s style swearing.

Sex: Discussed, grappled with comically.

Drugs: Joked about, used (to comic effect).

Parents’ advisory: Chances are, they’ve seen the video of the first film. Not exactly suitable for younger kids, but OK for 12 and older.