(Joe Lederer)
Family Filmgoer
(Joe Lederer)
July 12, 2009
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Kids 8 and older
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG, 87 min.) In 3-D, the film may cause kids under 8 to jump when an angry T. rex charges the animated heroes. Occasional crude humor and mild sexual humor.The middle ground
I Love You, Beth Cooper (PG-13, 101 min.) Comedy about losing one’s virginity after high-school graduation (above) relies too heavily on slapstick mayhem, and includes implied semi-nudity, profanity, toilet humor, and sexual situations. Not for middle schoolers.My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13, 109 min.) High schoolers and mature middle schoolers could be moved by the film, which depicts severe 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.
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.
Jane Horwitz, 
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