A parents guide to select new movies:

'Letters to Juliet'

Rating: PG for brief rude behavior, some language and incidental smoking.

What it's about: A young woman tracks down the author of a letter and tries to help her find her long-lost love.

The Kid Attractor Factor: Amanda Seyfried, who specializes in moist-eyed, chaste romances for kids old enough to appreciate them.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Sometimes, first love is the great love and the one that counts.

Violence: None.

Language: A smidge of profanity.

Sex: Not really.

Drugs: A little wine.

Parents' advisory: Not enough comedy or action to keep 12-and-unders interested.

'Robin Hood'

Rating: PG-13 for violence including intense sequences of warfare, and some sexual content.

What it's about: Robin Hood is "created" in the turmoil of 12th-century England.

The Kid Attractor Factor: An action picture with swords, bows and boiling oil.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Civil rights have to be fought for and won.

Violence: Intense swordfights, and arrow impalings.

Language: Occasionally bawdy

Sex: Some discreet wenching.

Drugs: Mead, and lots of it

Parents' advisory: The darkest, most violent Robin Hood, it's intense for kids used to only the Disney version, suitable for 10 and up.

A parents guide to select new movies:

'Letters to Juliet'

Rating: PG for brief rude behavior, some language and incidental smoking.

What it's about: A young woman tracks down the author of a letter and tries to help her find her long-lost love.

The Kid Attractor Factor: Amanda Seyfried, who specializes in moist-eyed, chaste romances for kids old enough to appreciate them.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Sometimes, first love is the great love and the one that counts.

Violence: None.

Language: A smidge of profanity.

Sex: Not really.

Drugs: A little wine.

Parents' advisory: Not enough comedy or action to keep 12-and-youngers interested.'Robin Hood'

Rating: PG-13 for violence including intense sequences of warfare, and some sexual content.

What it's about: Robin Hood is "created" in the turmoil of 12th-century England.

The Kid Attractor Factor: An action picture with swords, bows and boiling oil.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Civil rights have to be fought for and won.

Violence: Intense swordfights and arrow impalings.

Language: Occasionally bawdy.

Sex: Some discreet wenching.

Drugs: Mead, and lots of it

Parents' advisory: The darkest, most violent Robin Hood, it's intense for kids used to only the Disney version, suitable for 10 and older.