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.
"The Godfather" gets the "Airplane!"
treatment from comedy director Jim Abrahams. With Lloyd Bridges, Jay Mohr and Christina
Applegate.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Sexual innuendo, including references to masturbation, forced
sex, pornography, oral sex and impotence. A girl's clothed breasts grow and her nipples
become pronounced. Women wear cleavage revealing clothing, and skimpy costumes during a
strip club scene, revealing bare buttocks. Sex noises are audible and a man and woman are
seen having sex: the man is topless and she is in her bra. A man's erection is used as a
bird perch.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man is thrown after a car explosion; a building also
explodes. A boy is shot at, a man is shot and wounded, and several men are shot and
killed. After some killings we see bloody bullet holes. A man's thumb is shot through a
rifle and a boy picks it up. A woman punches a man, a boy's head is knocked into a door
frame and a man's head is kicked off. Some people are zapped with a cattle prod, a man is
sprayed with poison and dies and a man is stabbed with flower stems (blood trickles from
his mouth). A dead man's face (it doesn't appear to be real) is stepped on and a tiger is
shown eating a woman's leg (it doesn't appear to be real either). We see a man's burned
face. Some threatening with knives and guns. Some scatological humor.
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PROFANITY 5 - One F-word, a couple of scatological terms, many derogatory
terms for women, several anatomical references, several mild obscenities and insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The Mafia, crime, gambling, politics.
MESSAGE - You can make fun of pretty much everything.
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