Family guide to new movie releases
Published 12:00 am Friday, June 12, 2015
“Jurassic World”
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril.
What it’s about: A popular theme park has its murderous new attraction bust out and start eating the guests. Again.
The kid attractor factor: Dinosaurs running amok, faced by that Guardian of the Galaxy Chris Pratt.
Good lessons/bad lessons: “Life is the acceptance that you are never actually in control.” “A promise tomorrow is a lot less than trying today.”
Violence: Graphic, gruesome and disturbing death-by-dinosaurs.
Language: Scattered bits of profanity.
Sex: Flirtation, a kiss or two.
Drugs: None.
Parents’ advisory: More violent than the “Jurassic Park” movies, quite violent for a kids’ film — take the rating seriously, OK for 13-and-up.
“Spy”
Rating: R for language throughout, violence, and some sexual content including brief graphic nudity.
What it’s about: A CIA office worker is sent to Europe, into “the field,” to foil the sale of a nuclear bomb.
The kid attractor factor: Melissa McCarthy, in action and out of her depth.
Good lessons/bad lessons: It’s not “Well-behaved women often make history,” it’s “Well-behaved women SELDOM make history.”
Violence: Deaths, gun play, knife-fights.
Language: Turns quite potty-mouthed in the third act.
Sex: Nudity, comical groping.
Drugs: Alcohol.
Parents’ advisory: Too violent and profane for the very young, OK for 15-and-up.