`Deck the Halls’
Rating: PG for some crude and suggestive humor, and for language.
What it’s about: Christmas-obsessed optometrist deals with his tacky new neighbor.
The Kid Attractor Factor: Slapstick, a holiday setting, with snow and a sleigh and pranks aplenty.
Good/bad lessons: Don’t over-organize Christmas.
Violence: Pratfalls, fireworks.
Language: Mild profanity.
Sex: The director has a thing for cleavage.
Drugs: Not even eggnog.
Parents’ advisory: Family comedy.
`The Fountain’
Rating: PG-13 for some intense sequences of violent action, some sensuality and language.
What it’s about: A surgeon races to find a cure for his sickly wife, whose love transcends time.
The Kid Attractor Factor: Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.
Good/bad lessons: Death is “the road to awe,” not to be feared.
Violence: Stabbings and surgery.
Language: Mild profanity.
Sex: Nothing graphic.
Drugs: There’s an air of drug-trip to much of the third act.
Parents’ advisory: Too violent and cerebral and “trippy” for pre-teens.
