‘Imagine That’
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Rating: PG, for mild language and brief questionable behavior.
What it’s about: Workaholic dad picks up stock tips and how-to-live-life advice by visiting his daughter’s imaginary world.
The Kid Attractor Factors: Eddie Murphy, a cute kid, and wacky singing and dancing.
Good lessons/bad lessons: Listen to your kids. They have the best stock tips.
Violence: None.
Language: Quite clean.
Sex: None.
Drugs: A child is force-fed Red Bull.
Parents’ advisory: A shockingly sweet and surprisingly charming Eddie Murphy comedy, but too slow and talky for very young children.
‘The Taking of Pelham 123’
Rating: R, for violence and pervasive language.
What it’s about: A gang seizes a New York subway car and threatens to kill the passengers unless the city and the subway dispatcher meet its demands.
The Kid Attractor Factors: Travolta and Denzel, chases, shootouts and thrills.
Good lessons/bad lessons: You can find out anything on anybody on that Internet thingy.
Violence: Shootings, the threat of more shootings and perilous crashes.
Language: Plenty of profanity.
Sex: Teen Internet flirtation.
Drugs: None.
Parents’ advisory: A summer thriller that’s heavy on the violence and profanity. Take the R seriously. Not for kids.