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.
A teenager, Annabel (Lindsay Lohan)
and her widowed mother (Jamie Lee Curtis), who do not see eye-to-eye
and are always arguing, are magically transformed and end up
exchanging bodies. Now they see life from each other's perspective
and have to learn to appreciate each other before the body swapping
is reversed. Also with Mark Harmon, Chad Murray and Stephen
Tobolowsky. Directed by Mark S. Waters. [1:37]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - There are several kisses: A man and
woman kiss a few times, a young woman kisses a young man, a young
man and young woman kiss a few times, a man tries to kiss a woman, a
woman kisses a man on the cheek, and a woman and a younger man talk,
flirt and nearly kiss. A young man and young woman flirt, and a man
and a woman hold hands. A man pulls his pants down and we see his
bare buttock. A young woman touches her body when an older woman has
inhabited her body. A woman's low-cut pants show the top of her
thong and buttock cleavage, and a woman's dress reveals cleavage. A
young woman wears a short top that exposes her bare midriff. Young
women talk about "making a move" on a young man.
VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - A boy thinks his mother is dead when
she lies motionless in bed. A restaurant shakes and two people are
frightened thinking it is an earthquake; another tremor shakes
people gathered in a banquet room. A woman and her daughter run into
each other and fall onto the floor. A woman and her daughter yell
and argue in many scenes. A young woman tackles a young man, a young
woman slaps a young man in the face, a woman grabs a young man's
ankle and he falls on the floor, and a woman tackles a man and a
boy. A young woman pulls another young woman's shirt over her head
causing her to flip over a bike rack and land on the ground. A woman
flips over a couch to avoid having a man kiss her. Young women
playing volleyball are hit in the head with the ball a few times and
one falls to the floor. A woman smacks her daughter on the bottom
trying to wake her up in the morning. A young woman chases her
brother when she finds him with her underwear on his head. A woman
drives her car the wrong way through an entrance and her tires are
punctured by a pointed grate on the ground, and a woman drives
recklessly through traffic swerving on a highway. A young woman
screams when she looks into a mirror and sees that she is in an
older woman's body. A young woman slams her bedroom door several
times.
A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we
started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were
not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many
older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please
keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period.
While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are
limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process.
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