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.
Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin are the alien Conehead parental
units, trying to raise their young one (Michelle Burke) while realizing the American
Dream. Based on characters created by NBC's Saturday Night Live.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - One full shot of naked male bottoms in the shower, including
a conehead's (theirs looks different), and some cleavage. There are a couple of necking
scenes -- between humans, conehead and conehead and conehead and human -- and a suggested
sex scene between conehead and human teen (nothing is shown). A seduction scene, leading
to sex, which is only heard through surveillance equipment. A conehead gives birth.
Condoms are used as chewing gum. Discussion of birds and the bees.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - There's a battle between a monster and two men: both end
up dead, and we see a severed leg and head. Some shoving, pushing and some gross-out
scenes: the coneheads eat toilet paper, fiberglass insulation, drink window cleaner, and
even bite on an umbilical cord (off-screen).
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PROFANITY 3 - Some scatological and anatomical references. Some profanities
in incomprehensible Remulakian (the conehead's native tongue). [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Fraud, illegal immigrants, alien life, teen sex.
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