LOVE ACTUALLY
RATING: R
STARRING: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney, Keira Knightly, Bill Nighy, Denise Richards, Rowan Atkinson, and many cameos
DIRECTOR: Richard Curtis
PRODUCERS: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellar, and Duncan Kenworthy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Richard Curtis
WRITER: Richard Curtis
DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
SUMMARY: Love Actually is promoted as a feel-good romantic comedy for the holiday season, but in fact it is a raunchy comedy filled with graphic nudity and simulated sex and foul language. Although some of the stories are quite sweet and touching, the overall base content of Love Actually ruins the message and the movie.
Some of these stories focus on emotions and love, while many simply focus on the baser side of sex. Much of the humor of Love Actually comes from its low view of human sexual behavior and coarse and profane language. Christmas is portrayed as a time to give and get what you want. Although a few of the vignettes have good messages, the raunchy, explicit nudity, foul language and sex spoil this movie and make it inappropriate for any audience.
CONTENT: Strong pagan worldview with strong Romantic content where main characters are driven by emotions and sensuality as many couples develop and/or attempt to get together on Christmas Eve, with Christmas depicted as being completely devoid of any spiritual meaning; very graphic and raunchy language 40 obscenities, heavy on the "f" word and 10 profanities; no violence; themes of adultery and extremely graphic and lengthy scenes of nudity and simulated sex including upper and rear male and female nudity and graphic sexual motions as two characters perform as body doubles for the pornographic movie industry; alcohol use at parties; illegal drug references; and, lying.
LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION
RATING: PG
STARRING: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack, and the voice talents of Joe Alaskey, Steve Babiar, Justine Baker, and Bob Bergen
DIRECTOR: Joe Dante
PRODUCERS: Paula Weinstein and Bernie Goldman
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Chris deFaria and Larry Doyle
WRITER: Larry Doyle
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.
GENRE: Animation/Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All ages
SUMMARY: In Looney Tunes: Back In Action, Daffy Duck is fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, and he’s on the bad list of Warner Brothers’ Vice President, played by Jenna Elfman. So he quits Hollywood, teams up with recently fired stuntman Bobby Delmont, played by Brendan Fraser, and embarks on a big Las Vegas adventure. Their mission is to find Bobby’s actor/spy father and his missing blue diamond. . . and stay one step ahead of Bugs and the studio execs on their trail! If they don’t, the strange and diabolical president of Acme (Steve Martin) will undoubtedly be able to fulfill his evil plan of world domination.
The movie is fun, frantic, and full of laughs. The combination of animation and live action is fascinating, and the production quality and all-star cast shows off the movie’s obviously huge budget.
CONTENT: Romantic, cartoonish outlook with real people and animated characters interacting in a frantic, dizzying race, with motivations ranging from greed to heroism, and some humanistic overtones with all the worldliness of the Las Vegas scene, and some occult-type, mystical elements; about three light obscenities, but some crude body humor; heavy cartoon violence with both humans and cartoon characters getting smashed, crushed, burned, shot at, flattened by anvils, tied on railroad tracks with oncoming trains, and blown up with dynamite; no nudity; some cartoon portrayals of alcoholism.
