Not recommended under 15 (Themes and sexual references)
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Children under 15 | Not recommended due to themes and frequent sexual references. |
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: | Year One |
Classification: | M |
Consumer advice lines: | Sexual references and coarse language |
Length: | 97 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) live in a primitive hunter-gatherer community where neither excels at his task. Zed is in love with Maya (June Diane Raphael) who wants a big strong man who can protect and provide for her, someone who is the exact opposite of Zed. Oh is desperately in love with Eema (Juno Temple) who barely seems to notice his existence. When Zed eats the forbidden fruit he is cast out of the village and Oh joins him on an adventure to see the world and begin a new community. Instead they stumble upon Cain (David Cross) and Abel (Paul Rudd), who are fighting in a field. After Cain murders Abel they find themselves at the mercy of a mad man who will do whatever it takes to save himself, including selling Zed and Oh as slaves.
It is in a slave market that Zed and Oh see Maya and Eema again. They have been captured by a neighbouring tribe and have also been sold as slaves. Zed promises that he will find a way to free them all. When their caravan is attacked by soldiers Zed and Oh manage to escape into the desert and, in an attempt to follow the caravan, find themselves in a Hebrew village as guests of Abraham (Hank Azaria) who is obsessed with circumcising his son Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and any other males he can find.
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.
Incest, slavery; parodies of biblical characters
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.
There is some violence in this movie including:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:
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 also likely to be disturbed by some of the above-mentioned 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.
Children in this age group are also likely to be disturbed by some of the above-mentioned scenes
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.
Children over 13 are unlikely to be disturbed by anything in this film.
None of concern
There are some sexual references in this movie, including:
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Year One is a crude and silly comedy which may have appeal for older adolescents and fans of Jack Black.
The main messages from this movie are that you have choices in life and that it is through your choices and actions that you make our own destiny.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with older children include:
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