FREDDY VS. JASON
RATING: R
STARRING: Robert Englund, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland, Katharine Isabelle, Brendan Fletcher, and Ken Kirzinger
DIRECTOR: Ronny Yu
PRODUCER: Sean S. Cunningham
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Douglas Curtis, Robert Shaye, Stokely Chaffin, and Renee Witt
WRITERS: Damian Shannon and Mark Swift
DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema
GENRE: Horror/Mad Slasher
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
SUMMARY: In Freddy v. Jason, two infamous mad slasher killers join forces to terrorize teenagers in a small town called Springwood. Freddy v. Jason is, of course, filled with gruesome violence and gore, but also contains a barrage of foul and vulgar language and scenes of explicit nudity and depicted sex.
Banished to Hell by the Springwood authorities who have erased all memory of him from their town, the spirit of notorious child killer Freddy Krueger resurrects the body of serial slasher Jason Voorhees by posing as Jason’s mother. Freddy thinks that by getting Jason to start slaughtering teenagers in Springwood, the teenagers will begin remembering Freddy’s name. This will empower Freddy to once again invade their nightmares and satisfy his bloodlust. Meanwhile, some of the teenagers join forces to stop Freddy. When Freddy discovers that Jason is not so willing to step aside, a showdown between them ensues, with the teenagers caught in the middle.
CONTENT: Very strong pagan worldview with a nominalistic view of reality as well as some strong occult elements involving the spirits of dead people, and light moral element in that teenagers band together to defeat evil and help one another; at least 59 obscenities and 17 profanities; extreme gruesome violence includes bodies cut in half, decapitations, arms cut off, gore, multiple stabbings, killers impale bodies, bodies burn with fire, and explosions; full female nudity, upper female nudity, and rear and upper male nudity; alcohol use.
UPTOWN GIRLS
RATING: PG-13 (for sexual content and language)
STARRING: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Jesse Spencer, and Heather Locklear
DIRECTOR: Boaz Yakin
PRODUCERS: Allison Jacobs, John Penotti, and Fisher Stevens
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Joe Caracciolo, Jr., Tim Williams, and Boaz Yakin
WRITERS: Julia Dahl, Mo Ogodnik, and Lisa Davidowitz
DISTRIBUTOR: MGM
GENRE: Drama
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
SUMMARY: In Uptown Girls, Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job as a nanny for precocious Ray, the oft-ignored 8-year-old daughter of a music executive. Uptown Girls is sweet and sad, accurately portraying the ache in the heart of parentless children, but it contains some light foul language, implied sex, and New Age content.
In Uptown Girls, Molly, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, finds out that her manager has stolen all her money and fled the country. Now completely broke, she must work as the nanny for precocious eight-year-old Ray, the oft-ignored daughter of a female music executive. She also meets and seduces a handsome Australian musician, but his affection is short-lived much to Molly’s heartbreak.
How wonderful it would have been if the filmmakers of Uptown Girls had shown healing through a portrayal of restoration of the father-heart of God, or even a symbolic earthly male. The movie is also marred by some obscenities and sexual overtones, but may lend itself to profitable family discussions of God’s way to inner healing.
CONTENT: Humanist worldview portraying hopeless responses to tragedy and some portrayals of yoga/meditation/New Age techniques for "centering soul," yet some moral elements with clear need for fathers portrayed, as well as fruits of slothfulness versus responsibility and discipline; about six mild obscenities and about eight light profanities; sexual scene(s) implied.
