I loved it. Action movies aren't really my thing, but this was funny.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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Common Sense says
Married assassins thriller isn't for kids.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 14–15
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Mr. & Mrs. Smith was written by Cynthia Fuchs
Parents need to know that this film features repeated and sustained violent scenes, involving guns, explosions, and knives. It's also worth noting that these scenes most often set husband against wife. Following one of these extended shoot-outs, they engage in mostly off-screen sex (some close-ups of limbs and lips serve as prelude). Husband and wife lie to each other, appear in therapy sessions, discuss their lack of intimacy. Jane wears dominatrix gear and wields a crop, just before she snaps her target's neck. John pees in the desert (back to camera). Characters smoke, drink, drive fast, crash, and deploy major weapons.
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- Families can talk about the extreme (and darkly comic) representation of workaholic partners and marital stress. How does the movie use a romantic comedy's basic structure (sparring couple, parallel confidantes, zany situations reframed as violence) in order to comment on the high-stress pace of contemporary, two-career marriages? How might John and Jane have avoided tensions by not deceiving one another to start with? What is exciting about keeping secrets? Why is it better to tell the truth?
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What’s the Story?
MR. AND MRS. SMITH centers on married super-assassins John (Brad Pitt) and Jane (Angelina Jolie), who have no idea of each other's occupation. Jane thinks John is the head of a construction firm, while John thinks his wife is in finance. Their marriage is in a bit of a rut until both of them are hired to kill the same man. Amidst all the action, they learn that they share a high-tech, low-affect appreciation for controlled mayhem, which makes them ideal mates after all -- which helps when they join forces for a final shoot-out against their mutual enemies: their heartless corporate employers.
Is It Any Good?
Thinly plotted, over-actionated, and frankly preposterous, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is entertaining and even clever if you take it on its own terms. These would be: the premise is nonsense and the resolution is absurd. In between, you see the gorgeous Pitt and Jolie wrestle, argue, leap, dash, and shoot big guns at each other. Yet the movie offers two surprises. First, Brad Pitt can dance. And not only in the sense that he turns a decent tango with Jolie in a flashback scene, but also, more enchantingly, in his performances with inanimate objects, a la Fred Astaire or even Buster Keaton. Pitt leaps through hedges, flies over furniture, juggles a teacup in one scene and a large weapon in another.
Genre-mixing is the film's second good idea. Equally cocky and apprehensive, John and Jane pretend to be happily married (she buys dreadful draperies, he doesn't notice she's added peas to the dinner menu) even as they live separate lives (they hide their weapons stashes in gendered spaces, hers behind the oven, his in the basement).
Movie Details
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox, Director: Doug Liman
Run time: 112 minutes
Theatrical release: 6/10/2005, DVD release: 11/29/2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence, intense action, sexual content and brief strong language
Run time: 112 minutes
Theatrical release: 6/10/2005, DVD release: 11/29/2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence, intense action, sexual content and brief strong language
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I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give it
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- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
You don't have to like action to like this movie
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I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
You don't have to like action to like this movie
I loved it. Action movies aren't really my thing, but this was funny.
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I rate this title iffy for age 4 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Excessive consumerism
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- Good role models
kids 7+
i saw this movie when i was 8!!!!!!!!it is a funny movie i love it
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I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
Funny movie with some intense action senes. Not for kids, yet mature teens should be able to handle it reasonably well.
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I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
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- Negative role models
for teens
Okay, yeah, so the movie is all about the spouses trying to kill each other. But I would have to say that it is a pretty cool, action packed, funny movie. But it is not the best role modeling, or message. After all they are trying to kill each other, and they are married!
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