ShareThisA guide to movies from a family perspective:"The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie"-- Rated: G.-- Suitable for: Preschoolers and above.-- What you should know: The animated VeggieTales, first introduced to many families at Christian bookstores, make the jump to the big screen with this story of hapless heroes. You can find religious themes, but it's mainly an adventure, laced with some comedy, about modern-day characters transported to the 17th-century pirate life.-- Language: None.-- Sexual situations and nudity: None.-- Violence/scary situations: A couple of characters are kidnapped and threatened with harm, but no one is killed or seriously hurt.-- Drug or alcohol use: None. Even in a bar, the pirates drink root beer and ginger ale."The Bucket List"-- Rated: PG-13 for language, including a sexual reference.-- Suitable for: Mature teen-agers and older.-- What you should know: Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play an odd couple of terminal cancer patients who draw up a list of things they want to do before they die and then go AWOL from the hospital to do them.-- Language: Some mild profanity.-- Sexual situations and nudity: No nudity, but one post-sex-scene risque discussion.-- Violence/scary situations: Many of the film's hospital scenes (especially two brain operations) -- while not graphic -- could be considered traumatizing.-- Drug or alcohol use: There is frequent drinking of alcohol."First Sunday"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Tweens and above.-- What you should know: Ice Cube's and Tracy Morgan's characters are best friends and bumbling petty criminals who decide to rob their neighborhood church so they can keep Ice Cube's character's son from moving away and also pay off a thug.-- Language: Lots of mild three- and four-letter words and one curse with "God" attached.-- Sexual situations and nudity: Morgan's character goes for a massage, but the masseuse turns out to be a masseur, which sends him running for the door in his undies.-- Violence/scary situations: A car chase, a punch thrown and threats of harm, plus guns are waved around and even fired into the air during a hostage-taking, but it's all pretty tame.-- Drug or alcohol use: Jokes about communion wine, weed (mainly in the form of a bumper sticker) and a couple of homeless people drink from a bottle tucked into a paper bag."Water Horse: Legend of the Deep"-- Rated: PG.-- Suitable for: Elementary-school-age children and up.-- What you should know: In 1942 Scotland, a boy named Angus finds a stone that proves to be an egg on the beach. It hatches into a water horse in this coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of World War II.-- Language: Mild, nothing you wouldn't hear on TV.-- Sexual situations and nudity: None, although a couple of adults briefly flirt and dance.--Violence/scary situations: A dog chasing the water horse through the house creates havoc. The scariest scenes come late in the movie when the creature is in the water and under attack from the military. Angus is put in danger with the water horse, and although the boy initially won't accept it, his father has died and will not be returning home.-- Drug or alcohol use: A couple of adults take nips from flasks, some scenes are set in a pub and drinks are served at a formal dinner.(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)
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