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.
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