• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 12, age appropriate for kids over 15; suggested age 13.

• Is it any good?

  1.0

• Common Sense says

  Underdog comedy is no Napoleon Dynamite.

Why We Rated This for Ages 13–15

The good stuff

• Messages:

  The movie thinks it has a positive message about believing in your dreams, but it's ultimately more of a message that viewers are supposed to love its lame, awkward lead character. The film also depicts a labor-vs.-management showdown, in which the lead character's air drumming dreams inspire the strikers to bet back on the line -- but it plays more like a bitter joke than a sweet moment.

What to watch out for

• Role models :

  The film wants to make the title character, Power, a hero in the Napoleon Dynamite/beautiful outsider mold, but ultiamately he's far too self-absorbed and pleased with himself to be sympathetic or inspiring. There's also some broad ethnic stereotyping.
• Violence:

  Some comedic scuffling; police use truncheons when interrupting an illegal "air drumming" competition; strike-breaking thugs beat union members. A cook uses apron-based marital arts. A man is beaten by muggers.
• Sex:

  A preteen boy asks someone when the last time was that he "sucked down some hussy spit." A passing man asks of a woman honking her horn, "I know the horn blows, but does the driver? Some kissing.
• Language:

  Some strong language, including "p---y," "gay," "ass," and "piss." "Tonto" is used to describe a Native American; an Indian character is called "Jihad."  "Retarded" is used as an insult.
• Consumerism:

  Only one brand, eBay, is mentioned by name.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Of-age characters drink beer and hard liquor (underage characters are seen in a bar, but they only drink soda); background characters smoke cigarettes.

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