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 Nickelodeon babies and their
families go on what they think is going to be a wonderful cruise,
but end up marooned on a desert island -- or so they think: they
soon run into Nickelodeon's Thornberries. Various complications
ensue: Nigel Thornberry bonks his head and starts behaving like a
3-year-old, bossy Angelica meets bossy Debbie, and Eliza talks to
Spike (who sounds very much like Bruce Willis). Also with the voices
of Jodi Carlisle, Christine Cavanaugh, Lacey Chabert and Melanie
Chartoff. Directed by Kate Boutilier. [1:20]
SEX/NUDITY 1 - A woman tears off her skirt (she's wearing
pettipants) and a man covers another man's eyes (this scene is accompanied by
seductive music). A teenage girl wears outfits that reveal her bare legs,
cleavage and abdomen. A teenage girl wears a bikini. We see the babies' bare
buttocks several times.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - A boat with children on board is tossed around
during a violent storm; a wall of water crashes onto them, the boat capsizes,
and we see splinters of the boat floating in the water. A dog is lost at sea for
some time. A leopard growls and surrounds a group of babies, it chases them,
they run through jungle, over a geyser and they fall into a cave. A baby falls
over a ledge and slides down a hill, a boy runs into a tree, a boy gives another
boy a wedgie. A man falls over a cliff, crashes into branches, lands on the
ground and is bonked on the head by a coconut. A dog gets pounded by waves as he
swims out to sea, he sinks under water and seems unconscious but surfaces again.
A dog and a leopard growl, snarl and threaten each other, one falls off a cliff,
and one slips down a wall into water. Monkeys bully a smaller monkey. A leopard
jumps behind a baby and chases him while snarling and snapping. A girl drives an
RV recklessly and crashes into water, where it sinks. A girl drives a
bathysphere through water, crashing into things and eventually coming to rest on
the ocean floor (we hear that they are running out of oxygen and do not have
power to surface). Babies in a jeep crash over a ledge, into crocodile infested
water below, they get out of the jeep and begin sinking in quick sand. A man is
chased by a leopard, he jumps on a turtle's shell and sails through water while
being snapped at by crocodiles. A man panics when he thinks they are marooned on
an island. Babies are left unattended and run through a deserted island alone. A
girl tries to scare babies by telling them they are going to be lobster food. A
woman is hit by a branch, a monkey panics and screams when it thunders loudly, a
boy throws muffins hitting a teenage girl in the head and face, a girl kicks a
rock and screams, a plant eats a fly, and a baby is wrapped in webbing. People
yell at each other several times, in different scenes. A woman vomits over the
side of a boat (we hear a splat in the water and gagging). Other icky stuff
include: bugs crawl into a baby's mouth, a baby puts a millipede in his mouth to
eat it (it is pulled out), a baby puts his finger in his nose then puts it in
his mouth, a baby pulls a waffle out of his diaper and he and his friends eat it
with ketchup, a dog's nose runs, a bird defecates and it hits a girl in the
face, a baby has a caterpillar in his mouth, a boy talks about a "booger farm,"
a dog says "I ate a diaper once," a baby licks another baby's foot, a man blows
a nose bubble, a boy urinates on a tree (we hear the trickle) and we see a dog
urinating and marking, a dog sniffs a leopard's backside, birds defecate on a
leopard. We see lots of beetles and bugs and a dog says, "I can't smell my own
butt." A man gets sand in his mouth when he kisses the ground. Rats swarm out of
a boat's cabin, and dogs and cats run wild through a cruise ship.
the review continues below...
PROFANITY 1 - Some name-calling, insults and some mild
scatological terms. [profanity glossary]
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