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Alien Resurrection

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 99; suggested age 16.

  • Is it any good?

    2.0

  • Common Sense says

    Grotesque carnage, vile characters; steer clear.

Why We Rated This off for Ages 16 and Under

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    The aliens are starting to look good by comparison -- which might be the movie's point. While Sigourney Weaver has been an audience anchor through this series, her cloned heroine is more threatening and violent. Other characters are punkish, profane space criminals, inhumane scientists, or despotic and evil military men. Cast is multicultural, and there's one tough paraplegic with survival skills.

  • Violence:

    Human characters are clawed bloody by the savage aliens, get torn apart, shot, cremated, or have embryo aliens burst out of them. Much gunfire and explosions, and the aliens themselves are dismembered.

  • Sex:

    Brief shots of nude Ripley clones, in undeveloped or mutated states, with bare breasts, no genitalia visible. Lascivious remarks by crew members.

  • Language:

    Overwhelming use of "f--k," "s--t," "hell," "a--hole."

  • Consumerism:

    Not an issue.

  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Social drinking.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Alien Resurrection

Parents need to know that even with the built-in kid/video game appeal, this monster movie has very harsh elements of bloody killing and cynical inhumanity, as well as explicit swearing and sex talk. Even Ellen Ripley, moral anchor of this series, has here turned into a violent bad-girl parahuman mutant. Human beings in general are vile and treacherous, and when one refers to the Earth of tomorrow as a "s--thole" you don't disbelieve that people like this have made it that way. When one especially monstrous alien mutation dies in a slow, ghastly way, Ripley (and you) feel sorry for it -- rather more so than for the people.

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  • Families can talk about the different tones of the various Alien movies, and which ones work for kid viewers, and why. Do you think this clone Ripley makes an effective and complex heroine, on the level of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Do you think the movie makes people seem even worse than the hideous aliens?
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    Lives in Michigan
    I rate this title on for age 2 and give it 5.0
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    I rate this title on for age 15 and give it 3.0

    Not bad at all

    Better than part 3. This film was so suspenseful, but it was the story that sucked.

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