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`Accepted’
Rating: PG-13 for language, sexual material and drug content.
What it’s about: Kids who can’t get into other colleges invent their own.
The Kid Attractor Factor: Justin Long heads a cute young cast in this anarchic college comedy.
Good lessons/bad lessons: Some kids are more ready to begin their adult lives at 18 than others.
Violence: Slapstick.
Language: Some profanity.
Sex: Flirted with.
Drugs: Substances are abused.
Parents’ advisory: A rude comedy that wishes it was an “Animal House” for the new millennium. Take that “13” in the PG-13 seriously.
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`Step Up’
Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, brief violence and innuendo.
What it’s about: Kid from the streets finds some focus when he is sentenced to work, and dance, at a school for the arts.
The Kid Attractor Factor: It’s all about kids, and hotties Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan star.
Good lessons/bad lessons: Talent trumps discipline, drive and ambition.
Violence: Fistfights and a shooting.
Language: Pretty clean, for a PG-13.
Sex: Suggested.
Drugs: None, not even in the underworld parties.
Parents’ advisory: It’s got the Disney brand on it, but the message, a disdain for what it takes to make it in the performing arts, is idiotic.
`Zoom’
Rating: PG for brief rude humor, language and mild action.
What it’s about: Kids are recruited to be replacement superheroes, with a reluctant retired hero, Tim Allen, as their trainer.
The Kid Attractor Factor: Tim Allen, attractive kids in the cast and a final moment of humiliation for the not late, not great Chevy Chase.
Good lessons/bad lessons: You can’t run away from your destiny. Especially if people are counting on you.
Violence: Slapstick.
Language: Mild.
Sex: None.
Drugs: None.
Parents’ advisory: Harmless enough. But watch out for kids who go to see this and sneak into “Snakes on a Plane.”
