Well, I need to post this before I forget to tell y’all about it.

You know I like movies, right? (the answer would be “yes, you moron.”)

My son has become quite a movie buff as well. I don’t know if he likes Sour Patch Straws that much, or if he really likes going with me to see movies. We see all kinds.

Anyway, here’s a cool web site I just found, that rates movies on a three way scale: sex/nudity; violence/gore; and profanity. The Big Three, as it were, when trying to figure out if your kids (or you, yourself) should see a movie. Instead of going by “PG” or “R”, which are at best a very broad brush to paint a movie review with, they give detail.

Here’s an example:

Norbit – 5.4.4
SEX/NUDITY 5 – A husband hears noises coming from behind a door, he opens the door and finds his wife in bed with another man, who gets out of the bed nude (we see his bare chest, buttocks and legs).

(it continues and explains just what kind of sex/nudity you will see in Norbit)

See? – nude man. I have no problem seeing nude men. I’d prefer they be shagging nude women, but beggars can’t be choosers. Reading the list, there’s much more (such as this, which sounds like your average Pepsi commercial: Two characters are identified as pimps; they dress in flashy clothing and drive a brightly decorated car). Forewarned is forearmed, or something like that.

From further in the review:

VIOLENCE/GORE 4 – A woman drives her car on a lawn while chasing a dog that she eventually hits with the car (we hear a yipping, and we hear the dog is in the hospital and we see it later with a wheel device attached to his back and bandages on both rear legs).
â–º A woman is struck in the buttocks with a harpoon, and she runs screaming — we see the harpoon sticking out of her. Three men with BB guns shoot a man (in a carnival game stand).

And I can’t leave out the last of the Trinity:

PROFANITY 4 – 7 sexual references, 4 scatological terms, 36 anatomical terms (2 mild), 58 mild obscenities, name-calling (stupid, fool, mean, punk, selfish, heartless, gorilla), 10 religious profanities, 4 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]

The review follows with discussion of substance use, topics that kids may want to discuss about the movie, and the overall message of the piece.

These are not reviews in the sense of “three thumbs up” or whatever, but reviews in the sense of “what is the film about?”

Check it out :yes:

Kids in Mind.