Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
Former Saturday
Night Live cast member Rob Schneider plays a fish tank cleaner who inadvertently turns to
male prostitution to earn a few thousand dollars to pay for a broken fish tank. With Arija
Bareikis, Allen Covert, Oded Fehr, Eddie Griffin, Norm Macdonald and Amy Poehler. [1:28]
SEX/NUDITY 6 - Sexual innuendo (including references to S&M,
homosexuality, multiple-partner sex, fellatio and anal sex) and graphic sexual talk is
pervasive. We hear people having sex off-screen (lots of moaning) and see a couple having
sex on TV (we hear whipping, yelling and other S&M-type noises). A scantily clad woman
moves up and down on a man as they kiss passionately, a woman takes off a man's
clothes and it's implied she grabs his penis (we only see his face reacting to this)
and a woman throws a man on a bed and rips his clothes off (he's still in his
underwear on camera). A man and woman have intercourse but we only see them post-coitus
(her head is resting on his bare chest). We see a close-up of a used condom. Some kissing.
Several scenes in which a man unzips his pants, pulls out his penis (which we never see)
and tells another man to look at it; also, a man grabs another's clothed buttocks. A
woman moans in ecstasy while a man rubs her feet. In three scenes we see a naked
man's backside; also, we see a man with a towel wrapped around his waist and a few
scantily clad women. A few scenes in which we see a woman's nipples through her wet
T-shirt after she dips her breasts into a fish tank. A few scenes of men in their
underwear; sometimes the men are dancing suggestively while stripping for a woman. A man
reaches into his underwear and pulls out dollar bills.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - Mostly played for laughs. A scene in which it's
implied a male and female police officer sodomize a man (it's implied the woman uses
a club); we see him walking painfully throughout the rest of the movie. A man shoots a
woman in the chest with a crossbow, but her chest is protected and she's not injured.
A man is beaten by the police; also, a woman punches a man in the gut and kicks him in the
face and groin. A man pulls off a woman's fake leg. Threatening with a crossbow and
some verbal threats. A couple scenes with visual "toilet humor," including one
in which a man is plunging a toilet and catches a piece of excrement in a fish bowl; also,
a bathroom scene in which we hear flatulence.
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PROFANITY 5 - Lots of anatomical references and slang terms, scatological
references, mild obscenities and insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Pimping, male and female prostitution, sex, love.
MESSAGE - Even losers can find love if they will themselves to it.
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