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.
Just minutes after being released from prison, a man with
"two strikes" against him is innocently involved in a shoot-out with police and
becomes a fugitive from the law in this comedy. With Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon
Love, David Alan Grier and D.J. Pooh. [1:23]
SEX/NUDITY 6 - Lots of sexual innuendo (including references to sodomy,
cunnilingus and masturbation). A woman wearing a bra, panties and a garter belt stands in
front of a man whose eyes bulge while looking at her; she lies on a bed with him and then
he rolls on top of her as the scene ends (it's implied they have intercourse). A woman
wearing a tiny halter top and shorts that reveal most of her bare buttocks dances
suggestively in front of a man during a few short scenes (her backside is facing the
camera); in a later scene, we see the man push her head off-camera toward his crotch and
then see his pleasured expression (we briefly see her bare back and part of her bare
breast). We see clips of a video game in which two small male and female characters have
intercourse in a few different positions with movement and moaning. In a few scenes we see
a woman's face (with a pleasured expression) and hear a humming noise along with her
moans; in the last scene, she brings a phallus into the camera's view. A man licks his
lips while looking at another's buttocks, which are held up in a sling; later, the man
unzips his pants in front of the other (the scene fades to black immediately afterwards).
A man puts his hand down his pants as he watches some scantily clad women do aerobics on
television and daydreams that he's dancing with them. A woman in a cleavage-revealing
negligee and robe dances behind a man and rubs a feather boa on his neck and head; she
later shows him a box of sex toys, including a paddle and a phallus. A woman runs her
hands underneath a man's shirt, a man kisses a woman's bare shoulders, a man thrusts his
hips into a bed a few times and a man looks at a woman's buttocks and thrusts his hips
toward her several times. We see a few scantily clad women dancing suggestively and
serving drinks to men at a bar (most of the women's bare buttocks are visible); we also
see a woman's bare shoulders as she's taking a bubble bath and several women in
cleavage-revealing tops.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - Mostly played for laughs. Two police officers threaten two
men (one of whom has a gun); shots are exchanged, cars are hit and one man is shot in the
buttocks (we see blood on his pants as he's rolled away on a gurney); in another scene,
many police officers surround a man and start shooting at him (he's not hit, but his car
is shot many times). A man daydreams that police officers break down a door and shoot him
repeatedly (we see several small bloody circles on his shirt). Two men punch another man
in the stomach and grab his shirt; one briefly threatens to rape him and thrusts his hips
a little. A man is punched in the face; also, a man is tripped and then repeatedly kicked
by many others. A man flicks another's wounded buttocks (we hear him yell in pain), a
woman pushes a man, a woman hits a man with her purse a few times, a woman slaps a man
twice, men slap at each other, a man shatters a bottle over another's head and a boy
accidentally hits a man's crotch with a stick. A police officer puts his hand on a woman's
shoulder, and when she knocks it away he threatens her with a gun and has her taken away
by a few other officers. A man jumps off a diving board and leaps over a fence (we hear
things breaking, but he's not injured). A few scenes of reckless driving during a car
chase; a man is knocked to the ground when a car spins and hits him. A man is chased by a
dog. A man passes gas loudly several times and we see a man spit.
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PROFANITY 10 - At least 76 F-words, some profane finger gestures, lots and
lots of anatomical references, scatological references, mild obscenities and racial
epithets and many insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Prison, marijuana use, the "three strikes" crime
law, running from the law, infidelity.
MESSAGE - Running away from an illegal situation when you're innocent makes
you appear to be guilty; it's easy to find and get into trouble everywhere.
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