WILLARD
RATING: PG-13
STARRING: Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey and Laura Elena Harring
DIRECTOR: Glen Morgan
PRODUCERS: Glen Morgan and James Wong
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Richard Brener, Bill Carraro and Toby Emmerich
WRITER: Glen Morgan
BASED ON THE NOVEL: Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert
DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema
GENRE: Horror
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
SUMMARY: Willard is the remake of a 1971 movie and is about a friendless young man who uses his control over a bunch of rats to get revenge. Designed for a teenage audience, Willard is creepy enough to draw the children, yet probably should be avoided for its violence, foul language and horrible depictions of death by rat-bite. Unless you love horror movies or rats, Willard is one creepy ride you may want to avoid.
Crispin Glover plays the title role in Willard as Willard Stiles, a pale, reclusive introvert who wears his dead father's old suits and lives with his demented, dying mother in a rotting gothic home. Willard works for Mr. Martin of Martin & Stiles Metals, as a clerk in a 1950s style boiler room office with several other tired looking employees. Willard is despised by Martin, screamed at daily and told that he will lose his job the moment his mother dies. The friendless young man finds comfort in his friendship with a group of rats, but then, his mother dies.
CONTENT: Dark humanist worldview of a friendless young man who goes mad with revenge after befriending some very intelligent rats; about six obscenities, including one "f" word, and two strong profanities; scary, creepy violence including people attacked by rats, rats bite people and rat killed with rod; allusion of an affair and man views Internet porn before getting killed; no nudity shown; no alcohol; no smoking; and, bullying and revenge.
AGENT CODY BANKS
RATING: PG
STARRING: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson, Arnold Vosloo, and Ian McShane
DIRECTOR: Harald Zwart
PRODUCERS: David Glasser, Andreas Klein, David Nicksay, Guy Oseary, and Dylan Sellers
WRITERS: Zack Stentz, Ashley Edward Miller, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karazewski
DISTRIBUTOR: MGM
GENRE: Spy Spoof
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children to adults
SUMMARY: Agent Cody Banks is a slickly produced action movie that is full of enough adult-like sensuality to make it a "gateway drug" to the full-fledged, sexualized Bond movies. Parents should use discernment as to whether they want to endorse the planting of suggestive seeds of sexuality and parental disrespect into their children's minds.
In Agent Cody Banks, 15-year-old Cody Banks has been trained as a CIA junior agent at a secret summer camp. He is called into action to make contact with Natalie Conners, the beautiful blonde daughter of a scientist who is being forced into creating microscopic nanobots that can be programmed to destroy the world. Cody has been trained to be a super agent: he can drive well, he can fight, he can snow board . . . , but he cannot get a word out of his mouth in the presence of a pretty girl, which predicament provides the comedic platform.
CONTENT: Pagan worldview with some moral elements; feathers fly as villain kicks duck, girl roughly kidnapped, wrestling, man is hurt and dragged off screen screaming, bully receives severe shock from a spy watch; woman wrestles boy and begins to suffocate him by pulling his face into her clothed breasts, boy tries to stand on platform with woman with his face to her breasts; woman wears tight, cleavage and midriff baring outfits.
