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.
After a college student accidentally mails a videotape of
his unfaithful behavior to his long-distance girlfriend, he and his friends drive across
the country to intercept the package. With Breckin Meyer, Seann W. Scott, DJ Qualls, Paulo
Costanza, Amy Smart, Rachel Blanchard, Tom Green, Fred Ward and Andy Dick. [1:33]
SEX/NUDITY 9 - Lots of sexual innuendo and discussion (including references
to orgasm, masturbation, anal rape, child prostitution, bestiality) and several kisses,
mostly passionate. In what looks like a home movie, we see a boy and girl kiss briefly,
and in another scene we see a boy try to touch a girl's clothed chest while kissing her. A
woman takes off her shirt (her bra is visible) and a man starts kissing her cleavage. A
woman wearing panties and a bra lies on top of a boy in underpants and kisses him
passionately; she pulls off his underpants (we don't see any nudity) and it's implied she
puts a prophylactic on him, then we see them thrusting under covers. A woman takes off her
skirt and shirt (her panties and bare breasts are visible), then lies on top of a man and
kisses him passionately (we learn that they had intercourse a few times); the scene is
videotaped, and we see parts of it a few times throughout the movie. A man sits on a bed
with two women: in one scene he kisses one of the women and then asks the women to kiss
each other (they don't), and in another scene they're all topless with the women caressing
the man's chest and the man touching the women's bare breasts (it's comical rather than
sensual). During a scene that takes place in a sperm donation center we see a man
stimulating himself (his crotch is covered by a binder presumably filled with centerfold
magazines); also, a nurse puts on a glove, stands behind a man, and then supposedly
performs a "prostate stimulation" procedure on him (he yells and jumps, then we
see her take away a cup afterwards). In a later scene another woman wearing a rubber glove
stands behind the same man and appears to be ready to perform the same procedure. A man in
boxers has a very enlarged member (he's watching a dance show featuring girls in
swimsuits). A woman hands another a vibrator, a man starts licking a woman's toes, a man
grabs his clothed crotch, a man smells a pair of panties, and a man leans down and talks
to another man's crotch. We briefly see two dogs copulating. In a women's locker room
scene we see several topless women, brief frontal nudity twice and a woman's bare backside
as she takes off her thong underwear. We see a close-up of a man holding and shaking his
bare buttocks (his pants are pulled down slightly), some girls wearing cleavage- and/or
midriff-revealing tops, a sleeping man with his hand down the front of his underpants, and
a poster of a scantily clad woman.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - Mostly played for laughs. A snake attacks and swallows a
man's hand; he swings it around a room, breaking several things, and finally flings it off
of his hand and onto another man (it's implied the snake bites the man's neck; we see the
man lying on the floor with the snake wrapped around his neck). In one scene a man is
punched (he gets a slightly bloody nose), a man flips another onto a table (which breaks)
and pins him to the floor, two men jump on another (one elbows him in the back), a man
threatens several others with a gun, and a man sprays people with a fire extinguisher. A
man grabs another's arm and pushes his face into a counter. A woman smashes a car with a
baseball bat and hits a man's arm with the bat, then we hear punching noises and see her
shaking him by his hair. A car speeds and then jumps across a broken bridge (it falls
apart once it hits the other side, then explodes after everyone gets out). We see a man
lying on the ground who supposedly drank poison. We hear a woman start to vomit. A man
puts a mouse in his mouth then pulls it out. A man licks another's pieces of toast, puts
them down the front and back of his pants, passes gas, then puts the toast back on the
plate; we later see the man eating it.
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PROFANITY 6 - About 7 F-words (plus one written F-word and a couple of
F-word derivations), an obscene finger gesture, several anatomical references (plus many
heard in a song), several anatomical slang terms, several scatological references, many
mild obscenities and a few insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Sexual encounters, relationships, unfaithfulness, college
life, father-son relationships, marijuana use, jealousy, cults.
MESSAGE - It's not the destination but the journey that's most
important (and, often, most interesting). The college experience includes a lot of
partying and a little studying.
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