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Family reviews: 'Year One,' 'The Proposal'

A parents' guide to select new movies:

'Year One'

Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence.

What it's about: Hunter-gatherer losers travel the biblical world in search of knowledge and the women they love.

The Kid Attractor Factor: Jack Black, Michael Cera, raunchy laughs, toilet humor.

Good lessons/bad lessons: "There's got to be more to life than hunting and gathering." And Sodom wasn't as much fun as it sounds in the Bible.

Violence: Attempted hunting, sword fights and beheadings.

Language: Quite a bit of profanity.

Sex: Suggested, imitated.

Drugs and alcohol: Intoxicants are consumed.

Parents' advisory: Edited down to lose its R rating; hip kids will still get the gist of the off-color stuff — too raunchy for the very young.

'The Proposal'

Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, nudity and language.

What it's about: A boss who needs a green card blackmails her assistant into pretending they're about to marry.

The Kid Attractor Factor: Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock pretty much naked.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Sexual harassment is funny only in the movies.

Violence: None.

Language: A little profanity, here and there.

Sex: Nudity, with the naughtiest bits hidden.

Drugs and alcohol: None.

Parents' advisory: More a date movie than one you take the kids to; dating teens might get a chuckle out of it.

Roger MooreOrlando Sentinel