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Doug's 1st Movie | 1999 | G | - 1.3.1

In this animated Disney film based on the popular TV cartoon show, Doug and Skeeter befriend a monster living in Lucky Duck Lake. [1:19]

SEX/NUDITY 1 - We see a boy in his underwear. A boy leans toward a girl and asks for a kiss (it looks like they're about to kiss as the scene ends).

VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - Men shoot a robot with laser guns and the robot smokes and flails a bit. In two scenes, men with laser guns kick in doors and in another scene they threaten a few people. A monster throws a tree limb past a boy and apparently scratches his arm (we only see the boy's ripped sleeve). Men shoot a net onto a monster, put ropes around its neck and hands and drag it away. In dream sequences, we see a monster's foot stomp on a boy, a monster swallow a boy (we see the boy fall into its stomach and get covered with goo) and a monster spit up the goo-covered boy; we also see a boy shoot a laser beam at a monster, causing it to fall down. A car nearly hits two boys and a girl pushes a boy off a dock into shallow water. A woman smacks someone's hand with a ladle. A boy runs into a wall several times, falls down a flight of steps and then is hit with a garbage can; he's not hurt, and the scene is comical rather than violent. A man verbally threatens two boys.

LANGUAGE 1 - Many instances of mild name-calling and insults.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Monsters, pollution, businessmen, understanding and accepting different people, relationships, journalism, lying.

MESSAGE - Do what you think is right, even if it makes you look foolish to others.

(Note: In a cartoon shown before the movie, a bomb explodes in a purse -- a duck's feathers get a little ruffled, but no one is hurt.)

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