Family Filmgoer
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Up (PG, 98 min.) Kids under 6 may wonder what’s going on in the quiet interludes, and there are some scary scenes when fierce dogs chase the heroes. But “Up’’ is a near-total delight.
My Life in Ruins (PG-13, 98 min.) Lame romantic comedy with much sexual innuendo, some of it crude and/or homophobic, occasional sexual slang, rare profanity and drinking.
My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13, 109 min.) High schoolers and mature middle schoolers could be moved by the film, which depicts nosebleeds, vomiting from chemotherapy, baldness, and deathly pallor. Some profanity, beer drinking.
The Proposal (PG-13, 104 min.) A naughtiness of tone could give parents of younger teens pause. A lot of sexual innuendo and a sort-of-but-not-really nude scene, moderate profanity, a tasteless remark about immigrants.
Star Trek (PG-13, 126 min.) Recounting of how the young and frisky James T. Kirk and gang met as junior officers on the maiden voyage of the starship USS Enterprise. A hint of torture, intense fighting, mild sexual humor and innuendo.
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (PG-13, 150 min.) The film is endless and boring with a nearly incomprehensible plot. Crude language, profanity, toilet humor, warfare with guns, fighter jets, and explosions.
Year One (PG-13, 97 min.) Finding the yucks in the Book of Genesis: lots of strong, silly sexual innuendo, homophobic humor, nongraphic violence, mid-range profanity, a protracted comic discussion of circumcision, and toilet humor.
The Hangover (R, 100 min.) A frat comedy that’s too crudely sexualized and profane for most under-17s. Nudity, homophobic slurs, toilet humor, drug humor, and a poor joke about a grandmother’s “Holocaust ring.’’
Public Enemies (R, 143 min.) A deep-delving film with moments of shattering violence. Loud, darkly bloody shootouts, a nongraphic sexual situation, verbal sexual innuendo, rare profanity. OK for high schoolers.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R, 106 min.) For high schoolers who like intelligent thrillers. There are bloody shootings, children among the hostages, rats in the subway, profanity, crude sexual innuendo, ethnic slurs.
Jane Horwitz, 
