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.
Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu play elite
crime-fighting "angels" funded by an anonymous millionaire named Charlie, who
sends them on a mission to protect a high-tech electronics company owner from his
untrustworthy competitor. Also with Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Kelly Lynch, Tim Curry,
Crispin Glover, Matt LeBlanc, Luke Wilson, and Tom Green. [1:38]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Some sexual innuendo and double entendres, and some kisses. A
man and woman, holding hands and smiling at each other, walk into an airplane's bathroom
together. A woman with smeared lipstick is seen waking up in a bed (she's mostly covered
with a sheet, but parts of her bare leg, hip and shoulders are visible); a man wearing
pajamas is cooking her breakfast. In another post-coitus scene, we see a sheet-covered
woman in bed and a man wearing a bathrobe. A woman pushes a man onto a couch and tries to
straddle him and kiss him. A woman distracts a man by flirting with him, revealing a lot
of cleavage through her unzipped
top (part of the side of her bare breast is visible), and
licking the steering wheel of the car they're sitting in. In one scene a dominatrix-like
woman dressed in black leather is gawked at and then followed by a group of men; she also
runs her fingers through a man's hair and holds his face next to her clothed chest a
couple of times. Two boys briefly talk about whether they've seen "boobies."
Three women dressed as yodelers (tiny skirts and cleavage-revealing tops) briefly spank
each other's legs/buttocks while singing to a couple of men; in another scene, two women
in midriff-revealing tops belly dance in front of a group of men. A woman loses the sheet
she was wearing when she falls out of a window (see Violence/Gore for more details) and is
nude as she tumbles down a hill (we realize she's nude, but her body appears to be quite
blurry and no body parts are clearly visible); we then see her holding a life preserver
that covers her breasts and groin area when she asks two boys for help. A woman unzips the
front of her wetsuit (only cleavage is visible), then we see three women's bare backs as
they start taking off their wetsuits. We see lots of cleavage, a woman wearing a short
T-shirt and men's briefs, a woman wearing a very short dress, a couple of close-ups of
women's clothed buttocks, and a few shirtless men wearing towels in a spa.
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - It's implied that a man is stabbed to death (we hear a
slicing sound, see a line of blood splatter on the ground, then see a close-up of his head
hitting the ground). Four extended "kung-fu" fights (two fights are among
several people and two fights are between two people), all of which involve lots of kicks
and punches to the chest and face that often knock people to the ground and/or into walls;
during the fights people are nearly stabbed with a sword, a person is nearly hit with an
axe, a person hits others with a chair, two people are lassoed with a chain and knocked
down, a woman holds another to the ground and punches/slaps her face repeatedly, a person
is kicked backwards out of a window and lands on the ground below, two people are nearly
hit by a falling bell, and two people roll down steps. A man wraps a chain around a
woman's neck, and then she pushes his head into a mirror a few times (a small bloody cut
is visible), kicks his face repeatedly, and presses her foot into his neck. A woman being
threatened with a gun is shot at, and she falls backwards through a plate glass window;
she dangles from a sheet she was wearing, then tumbles down a large hill, eventually
reaching the bottom unharmed (see the Sex/Nudity category for further details). A man
grabs another by the neck and pulls him out of an airplane; they freefall for a while but
eventually land safely (while they're falling a bomb is unstrapped from one of them and
explodes, but neither is harmed). A woman appears to be shot in the back and falls to the
ground (we see blood on her shirt and on a nearby man's shirt); after a few seconds we
learn it's a scene for a movie. A girl punches a man's face, a woman punches a man's face
and kicks him repeatedly (he has a bloody mouth afterwards), a man elbows a woman, a man
is hit in the back and dragged into a car, a man is dragged into a room and locked inside,
and it's implied that a person is drugged and kidnapped (we only see powder being added to
the person's drink). In one scene a man repeatedly shoots at and nearly hits a few people
who are chasing him; in another scene lots and lots of bullets are fired into a trailer,
nearly hitting a person inside (we later see the bullet-hole-ridden trailer collapse after
the person leaves). A person harpoons a helicopter and a few people hang from the line, a
woman falls off a helicopter but is saved, and a few people jump from a helicopter that is
hit by a missile and explodes (later we see them lying face-down in the surf, uninjured).
In two different scenes we see someone bound to a chair and gagged (rats crawl on one
person's shoes). Two race cars chase each other on a track and then drive onto a highway,
nearly running into several cars and causing another to flip; they then speed toward each,
and upon impact one of the cars flips off a bridge and into water below (we see the
wreckage floating in the water). A building explodes, knocking a few people backwards into
a car's windshield (none is injured); in another scene a missile blows up a building,
knocking a few people to the ground. The following is played for laughs: a woman runs into
a door, a man falls off a ship, a woman hits another in the chest with a hard muffin, a
hard muffin is thrown into a wooden door, a woman jumps on a man's back (as a massage
technique) and makes him lose consciousness, a man is lightly hit in the cheek with a
baseball, a woman hits another in the groin area with a small whip, a man tries to open a
locked door by ramming his shoulder into it, a man acts as if his face has been singed
when a large burst of flames comes out of a fireplace (we never see his face), and a girl
drives a car on two wheels. Some reckless driving and some threatening with guns.
the review continues below...
PROFANITY 4 - A couple of anatomical references, a scatological reference, a
few mild obscenities, a religious profanity, several insults (two heard in song lyrics),
and a profane finger gesture. [profanity glossary]
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