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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. |
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In this comedy based on the old television show, reporter
Jeff Daniels dreams of achieving fame and fortune by exposing an alien (Christopher Lloyd)
who crash-lands on earth and pretends to be Daniel's human Uncle Martin. Elizabeth Hurley,
Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn, Christine Ebersole, Ray Walston, Steve Bond and Dawn Maxey
co-star.
SEX/NUDITY 3 - Sexual innuendo. Kissing. We see a man's bare backside, the
side of a man's bare backside, and a man who's obviously nude but only his bare chest is
visible. Lots of scantily clad women (in bikinis and cleavage-revealing tops).
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - Cartoonish violence played mainly for laughs: A man whacks
a man in the head with a golf club, a man hits another man in the crotch with a golf club,
and a man hits another over the head with a bottle. A fistfight, some scuffles and a face
slap. We see few people fall and one explosion. An alien's body literally falls apart with
body parts lying around. An alien eats a man whole. A man is electrocuted. Gunshots are
fired at a car during a chase scene; a man is shot with a pellet gun and an alien's
"suit" is shot. We see a bit of blood on an alien's antennae when it's removed;
we also see a slimy alien and a red-tinged alien ectoplasm (it looks bloody).
PROFANITY 2 - One scatological reference and a few mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Aliens, friendship, ambition.
MESSAGE - We might not be alone in the universe.
(Note: A cartoon before the film shows a dog changing shape when alien experiments
are performed on him -- it's more comical than violent).
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Special Keywords: S3 - V3 - P2 - MPAAPG |
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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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