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.
Jon Lovitz teaches in a high school that is more of a
military zone than an educational institution in this satire of all "teacher saves
students" movies.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Lovitz' bare buttocks, lots of other bare male buttocks. At a
strip club, bikini clad breasts and G-string clad buttocks are wriggled in Lovitz' face.
Kissing during a make-out. Lovitz fondles his girlfriend's clothed breasts. Lots of sexual
innuendo including homosexual and bestiality references. Short skirts and cleavage
revealing tops on the female students. Suggestive dancing: a woman rubs a scarf all over
her clothed body and she is obviously enjoying it.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A student gags and dies on poisoned punch, a student
writes on an arm with a knife and there's blood. An attempted rape that ends in a
fistfight. Sometimes played for laughs: Lots of gang fights with shoving, kicking,
scuffling; Students hit by a principal with a ball bat; Lovitz is pelted with spitballs,
hit in the head with a loose floorboard, electrocuted by a light switch, falls/jumps off a
bus onto a curb. Reckless driving, an explosion, kicks in the crotch.
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PROFANITY 5 - One F-word in a background song, an obscene gesture, a couple
of scatological references, many mild obscenities and anatomical references. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Teaching, high school, gangs, drugs.
MESSAGE - Some students are worth saving; sanctimonious films about teachers
saving their students are easily satirized.
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