JUNGLE BOOK 2
RATING: G
STARRING: The voices of John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Phil Collins, Jim Cummings, Bob Joles, and Tony Jay
DIRECTOR: Steve Trenbirth
PRODUCERS: Christopher Chase and Mary Thorne
WRITERS: Carter Crocker
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY: Rudyard Kipling
DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Pictures/Buena Vista
GENRE: Animated Drama/Musical
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All ages
SUMMARY: In Jungle Book 2, jungle boy Mowgli decides to forsake the ways of his family and their civilized life for the "bare necessities" of the wild life with his old friends. The movie is a fun, animated film that upholds family values and rebukes laziness, betrayal and rebellion. Even lazy Baloo undergoes transformation and is able to make some mature and selfless choices at the end.
In Jungle Book 2, Mowgli is living with an affectionate Indian family in a sweet village safely fenced off from the dangers of the jungle. Shaunti is a pretty, obedient child intrigued by Mowgli's descriptions of the excitement of the jungle. Mowgli loves his new family, but the lure of his old jungle life and his old pal Baloo the bare compel him to disobey his new parents and open the door for Baloo to kidnap him back into the jungle. Meanwhile, the vindictive tiger Shere Khan is hunting Mowgli, too, to destroy him out of vengeance over a past offense. Mowgli begins to miss his human family. He sneaks away from his jungle friends, only to find himself having to make a choice about where his heart truly lies.
CONTENT: Very moral worldview portraying strong families, the importance of obedience, honesty, and loyalty to parents and friends, and conversely, gossip, dishonesty, laziness, duality/gossip are rebuked or shown to be poor choices; light cartoonish violence with snake trying to hypnotize, capture and strangle two children, tiger trying to stalk and destroy protagonist out of revenge.
THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE
RATING: R
STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, and Gabriel Mann
DIRECTOR: Alan Parker
PRODUCERS: Alan Parker and Nicolas Cage
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Moritz Borman, Guy East and Nigel Sinclair
WRITER: Charles Randolph
DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures
GENRE: Drama
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
SUMMARY: The Life Of David Gale stars Kevin Spacey as an anti-death penalty intellectual trying to escape execution. David Gale is an anti-death penalty advocate who just happens to be a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the state capitol. In flashback, Gale tells a skeptical reporter, played by Kate Winslet of Titanic, how he landed on death row, with only days left until his execution. An alcoholic, Gale was convicted of murdering his colleague, another anti-death penalty advocate who's played by Laura Linney. Gale proclaims his innocence, even though there is evidence placing him at the crime scene. Slowly, the reporter and her silly intern discover that Gale just may be telling the truth. Or, is he?
The Life Of David Gale is one of the most brainless, poorly made, excruciatingly politically correct issue movies ever made and contains very strong foul language, graphic nudity and brutal images of an alleged strangulation victim. It takes idiotic, unconvincing, bigoted, extreme-left potshots at death penalty advocates, conservative Christians, the South, Republicans, and President Bush. Kevin Spacey gives one of the worst performances of his career.
CONTENT: Strong humanist worldview with attacks on politically conservative Christians and the "Bible Belt" in the South, as well as other very strong politically correct elements regarding death penalty advocates, gun owners, Republicans, and Texans as well as some references to liberal Christians invoking God and Jesus while protesting the death penalty; 33 obscenities, seven strong profanities, three light profanities, obscene gesture, and sex talk.
