Parents need to know that the movie contains lots of outrageous and stunty violence: explosions, shootouts, sword-fighting, horseback riding, leaping from rooftops and atop racing trains. While most is suitably cartoony, there is one bloody murder (by a sinister villain and his gang) of a sympathetic peasant as he tries to defend his home, leaving his tearful wife and an aggrieved Zorro behind. A young boy is threatened and watches villains beat and almost murder his father. This boy also engages in his own antic violence against the bad guys. Characters smoke (cigars) and drink (sometimes to the point of drunkenness).
Positive messages:Villains are ugly and violent; hero is handsome and violent.
Violence:Lots of explosions, swordplay, falling off cliffs or out windows, shooting, several murders committed in cartoonish styles.
Sex:Some suggestive imagery (cleavage especially), and some banter.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:Drinking at parties and in loneliness, as when Zorro despairs over Elena's rejection and gets drunk. A horse drinks and smokes cigars, too.
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Save your money and if you must, wait for the video. This was the biggest waist of time and money I have ever experienced. The plot gets confusing: too much action, too much editing and not enough care about basic details. I was so bored that I found myself critiqueing Katherine Zeta Jones' hair and makeup. I was surprised to see spidery hairs escaping her "do" and detract from that gorgious face of hers. The original was so much better!
This is the BEST action movie ever!!! In terms of violence, there is a lot of shooting (one that is bloody), a LOT of punching, tons of swordplay, some stabbing, a scene where a man catches on fire, three people that are blown up by nitro-glycerine, people that get crushed, thrown, drowned, threatened with knives, etc. In one scene a man lands on a cactus (he survives though, with a face full of cactus spikes). There's plenty of fighting, but not too much blood. In terms of sex, there is a suggestive scene where Zorro is naked in bed (by himself) but a nun comes in and almost sees him. There's also a lot of passionate kissing and some suggestive comments. There are about three swear words, one of them in Spanish subtitles. There's also a scene where Zorro gets drunk, and quite a few smoking characters. But everything is kept mostly PG. It's a great movie in terms of action.
THE MASK OF ZORRO was a great movie. It mixed good action with great acting and story. This sequel is entertaining, and the action is certainly rousing, but it lacks the engaging character development and story of the original.
Violence is the biggest issue. Most is non-graphic, but there is quite a bit of killing. The overall tone of the battles is more comic than that of the first, but it is still violent. There are a couple of suggestive scenes, but there is no language. The issue of Alejandro's alcoholism is shown and discussed.
Kids who have seen the first will most likely want to see this, but for most adults it's one to skip.
I think the character of Zorro (Antonio Banderas) is well played, if not appealing. Girls can be charmed by him (example: my mother) and boys will love the action.
I liked the movie when i was younger, it used to be my favorite but i love the first (the Mask of Zorro) more now. The movie doesn't show any nude scenes like the first one where there were some imagary of several mens behinds. It's a bit less action packed than the first.In terms of sex, there is a suggestive scene where Zorro is naked in bed (by himself and only see's waist and up in film) but a nun comes in and almost sees him, there's also a scene of some naked men in a round relaxing tub playing a card game and zorro gets up and reads a letter from Elena (No privates sown during that entire scene. There's also a lot of passionate kissing in some scenes. There are about three swear words, one of them in Spanish subtitles. There's a scene where Zorro gets drunk and some scenes of people drinking achole. And a few scenes of people/horse smoking, such as the scene when elena is smoking her pipe. I think it's a great movie and there's also some new actors in this movie also that weren't in the first. I wish there's a third one. Since last year i wanted to make a third one called "the daughter of zorro" and wanted to right a book about it also. The plot to that idea is that quaquin becomes the new zorro and in the begining he is all grown up and in a feild with his wife having a small funeral for his dead father. the bell rings so he goes to town and saves the people. He has a daughter and he tells stories of her great grandfather, grandfather and his stories and adventuries they all had. She was always fasinated of hereing the stories and the more she here's the stories when she grows up she's decideds that she wants to be the next Zorro. She starts secretly watching her father (Quaquin) train and practice in his training layer and starts practing the moves herself. ahe gets really good so she starts to make a new zorro name for her and calls her the new "Zorra" she then starts to draw clothing deiseins for her and picks one that would look good on her. she starts to make it and did the technices that her mother showed her while she was growing up. she made two extra suits/clothing for her just in case.
She starts trining and copies the moves that her father does and told her in his stories. She soon trains herself and starts to go out at night and when she here's the bell.
that's what i came up so far for my idea.
I think