Not recommended under 12, PG to 14 (Sexual references, Coarse language)
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Children under 12 | Not recommended due to sexual references and coarse language |
Children 12-13 | Parental guidance recommended due to sexual references and coarse language |
Children 14 and over | OK for this age group |
This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.
Name of movie: | Be Kind Rewind |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild coarse language and sexual references |
Length: | 100 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Mike (Mos Def) is the sole employee of the Be Kind Rewind video hire shop, owned by Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) who refuses to bow down to changing times and change his stock from VHS to DVD format. He has a few loyal customers like Mrs. Falewicz (Mia Farrow). The shop has been condemned and is due to be demolished in six weeks unless Mr. Fletcher can come up with $60,000 for repairs.
Mike’s best friend is Jerry (Jack Black), who is somewhat accident-prone and lives in a caravan next to an electricity power plant. Jerry is continuously concerned that the Government is using the power station to send out brain controlling microwaves.
While Mr. Fletcher is away Mike is placed in charge of the shop. Jerry decides it is time to sabotage the power plant, but things do not go as planned and he becomes magnetised as a result of being electrocuted. The next day when Jerry walks into Mr. Fletcher’s shop, he inadvertently erases all of the videotapes in the store.
When Mrs Falewicz wants to hire the now unavailable video of Ghost Busters, Mike and Jerry decide to remake the film themselves and entice Alma (Melonie Diaz) a girl from the local dry cleaners’ shop to act as their co-star. Their version is such a hit in the neighbourhood that they set out to make more films and more money for the shop, until they are stopped by copyright lawyer Ms. Lawson (Sigourney Weaver).
Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
None of concern
Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
Be Kind Rewind contains occasional comedy violence and accidental harm. Mike and Jerry’s films also contain some recreated film violence but this is very obviously staged and comic when compared to the original film versions. Examples of violence include:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
Children in this age group are likely to be disturbed by the above-mentioned scenes of violence and accidental harm, but there are no additional scary scenes
Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
Children in this age group are likely to be disturbed by the above-mentioned scenes of violence and accidental harm, but there are no additional scary scenes
Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
Younger children in this age group may also be disturbed by some of the above-mentioned scenes of violence and accidental harm.
Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.
Nothing of concern
Nothing of concern
Be Kind Rewind contains a number of sexual references. Examples include:
There is some partial nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is occasional low level substances use in this movie, including:
Be Kind Rewind contains some coarse language and put downs, including:
Be Kind Rewind targeted at adolescents and
adult viewers is an uplifting and good-natured comedy with lots of genuine
laughs.
The main messages from this movie are:
This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:
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