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Family reviews: 'Ice Age,' 'Public Enemies'

A parents' guide to select new movies:

'Ice Age: Dawnof the Dinosaurs'

Rating: PG for some mild rude humor and peril.

What it's about: That herd of friends from the Ice Age encounter, against all logic, a lost world of dinosaurs.

The Kid Attractor Factor: Funny, cute extinct critters talking and doing their thing in 3-D.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Anybody can learn to be a parent — even Sid the Sloth.

Violence: Dinosaurs were known for eating most anything that moved.

Language: "Rude humor" about body parts.

Sex: None, though the mammoth couple is pregnant.

Drugs and alcohol: None.

Parents' advisory: Wackier and more physical than the other Ice Age films, though you will need to correct its biology with the kids afterward.

'Public Enemies'

Rating: R for gangster violence and some language.

What it's about: John Dillinger and the gangsters of the '30s try to outwit J. Edgar Hoover and his G-men.

The kid attractor factor: It's Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)! And Batman (Christian Bale)!

Good lessons/bad lessons: Live by violence, you die violently.

Violence: Sadistic beatings, brutal shootings, torture.

Language: Some profanity.

Sex: Suggested.

Drugs and alcohol: Alcohol and cigarettes.

Parents' advisory: Not the hardest R, but too violent for a PG-13, suitable for 15-and-older.