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Family reviews: 'Couples Retreat,' 'Bright Star,' 'It Might Get Loud'

A parents' guide to select new movies:

'Couples Retreat'

Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and language.

What it's about: Troubled couples go for a "healing" resort vacation.

The Kid Attractor Factor: Vince, Faizon, Jason, Kristen Bell, frat-boy humor.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Even happy couples need to be reminded of why they're together.

Violence: A punch is thrown.

Language: Some profanity.

Sex: Bumping and grinding and a not-quite "happy ending."

Drugs and alcohol: Alcohol is served.

Parents' advisory: This was edited down from an R rating, so the raw stuff you see in the TV commercials is missing. Still not much here for kids younger than 15.

'Bright Star'

Rating: PG for thematic elements, some sensuality, brief language and incidental smoking.

What it's about: Young lovers John Keats and Fanny Brawne are kept apart by the money-and-class mores of their day.

The Kid Attractor Factor: It's about a famous poet. Smart teachers will give extra credit for seeing it.

Good lessons/bad lessons: A poem might win a girl's heart, but there's no substitute for ready cash when it comes to proposing.

Violence: None, unless coughing fits count.

Language: Austeneque. Clean.

Sex: They might not say the words, but they're thinking about it.

Drugs and alcohol: Tobacco, which considering the lung ailments of the 1820s seems even more foolish.

Parents' advisory: A chaste romance from an earlier age; children younger than 12 won't get much out of it.

'It Might Get Loud'

Rating: PG for mild thematic elements, brief language and smoking.

What it's about: Three pretty good guitar players get together and talk about their axes and influences.

The Kid Attractor Factor: The dude from the White Stripes plays The Edge and Jimmy Page.

Good lessons/bad lessons: How do you get famous enough to have Guitar Hero versions named for you? Practice, practice, practice.

Violence: A good electric guitar player donates blood for his art.

Language: A little cursing, not much.

Sex: They are all too busy practicing for that.

Drugs: Some rock guitarists light up.

Parents' advisory: A rock-guitar history lesson for the young folks. This won't appeal much to non-players.

Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel