“Avengers: Age of Ultron”

Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction, and for some suggestive comments.

What it’s about: The Avengers come to grips with a menace of their own creation, whose existence threatens to tear apart the team.

The kid-attractor factor: Cool actors, acting cool, slinging one-liners, throwing punches and flirting amidst a sea of special effects.

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Every time someone wants to win a war before it starts, innocent people die.”

Violence: Almost constant, some of it bloody.

Language: Half a dozen well-placed but mild-mannered curse words.

Sex: Joked about, as a budding romance is nurtured.

Drugs: None.

Parents’ advisory: A bit noisy and 3-D fractious for the very young, but certainly suitable for 8-and-up.

“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2”

Rating: PG for some violence

What it’s about: Lonely loser Paul Blart is the only mall cop who stands between master thieves and a massive art heist at a Vegas convention.

The kid-attractor factor: Kevin James in his most kid-friendly role, the rotund but graceful clown, Paul Blart — mall cop and single father of a teenage girl.

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Security is a mission, not an INTERmission.” “Overweight people use humor to achieve affection.”

Violence: A character is callously killed off, the rest is slapstick, with the constant threat of something more serious.

Language: Scrubbed clean.

Sex: Flirting in Vegas.

Drugs: None.

Parents’ advisory: Slapstick-oriented and young-kid friendly, despite the presence of a lot of fat jokes. OK for all ages.