• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 15.

• Is it any good?

  2.0

• Common Sense says

  Work-set comedy dwells on sex, marriage; not for young kids.

Why We Rated This for Ages 15–18

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  Throughout the movie, characters question loyalty in all its forms -- to your marriage, to your workplace, but in the end, the "right thing" is pretty much enforced. Some characters make comments that verge on sexist and or stereotypical (leering at women, comments regarding different races, etc.), but it doesn't get too extreme.
• Role models :

  Just about everyone behaves badly in the movie: The lead character hires a gigolo to bed his wife so he can cheat guilt-free, another character steals and cons her way through the film (sometimes gleefully), yet another is prejudiced, and the male characters do their share of leering at the women. But it’s all played in jest, and Joel is basically a nice guy in the most fundamental sense of the word.
• Violence:

  A guy beats someone up, though all viewers see is the shiner he gets afterward, rather than the actual hit. A woman literally scolds a neighbor to death.
• Sex:

  Sex and hooking up are implied and discussed (including phrases like "hit that" and "give it to you") quite frequently, but it doesn't get too raunchy, and nothing physical -- not even underwear-clad characters -- is seen. There's some leering at attractive women on the part of men, and a guy tries to kiss a girl, but she demurs. A husband pays another man to seduce his wife.
• Language:

  Crude and rude, with everything from  “s--t” (many times) and a few uses of "f--k" to "laid," "damn," "c--k," "ass," "damn," "hell," "goddamn," and "oh my God."
• Consumerism:

  A smattering of product placements and logos, including Best Western, Heineken, and Pepsi.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Social drinking, plus a scene in which a character smokes dope via a bong. A man encourages his best friend to take a pill thinking it’s a Xanax, but it’s actually a harder drug (“Special K”).

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