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Family Film Guide: 'Get Smart,' 'The Love Guru'
Friday, June 20, 2008
The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:
'Get Smart'


Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: 8 and older.

What you should know: The 1960s TV series, a spy spoof starring Don Adams, has been turned into a big-screen movie with "The Office" star Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99.

Language: About a dozen uses of generally mild four-letter words.

Sexual situations and nudity: Hathaway is seen, briefly, in lingerie, a reference is made to an affair, and a couple of kisses are exchanged.

Violence/scary situations: A steady stream of both, some played for laughs. There are explosions, fires, airplane mishaps, weapons planted in public places, exchanges of gunfire, a car-train collision and other scary stunts.

Drug or alcohol use: Champagne is served at a party.


'The Love Guru'


Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Middle school and older.

What you should know: Mike Myers is "The Love Guru," who comes to America to become the No. 1 self-help celebrity and assists a woeful hockey star with his love life.

Language: Crude jokes and mild profanity throughout.

Sexual situations and nudity: Mostly verbal and lots of innuendo.

Violence/scary situations: Slapstick comic violence without visible injuries resulting, such as when actor Verne Troyer is hit with a hockey puck.

Drug or alcohol use: Many references to being or getting high, but no on-screen use.

First published on June 20, 2008 at 12:00 am
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