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Transporter 2
- Review Date: January 8, 2006
- PG-13
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- 2005
Common Sense Media says
Violent sequel; older teens and up.
Parents say
QUALITY
Kids say
QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that the film includes incessant violence, at high speeds and in slow motion, both emphasizing the excruciating pain inflicted by professional killers. Characters swear, smoke, drink, and use drugs. Women are portrayed in negative sexual stereotypes. One appears drunk as she tries to seduce the hero and others wear very skimpy clothing (one assassin prefers lingerie for her missions). The film includes lots of explosions, car crashes, and a violent airplane crash into water.
What's the story?
In this sequel, "professional driver" Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is in Miami, and is hired to drive adorable Jack (Hunter Clary), whose parents work for the U.S. narcotics agency. Frank takes action when Jack is kidnapped by villains who mean to infect whim with a virus that he'll then transmit by breathing on his dad, and dad will then transmit by breathing all over a conference full of international drug czars. The kidnappers include slickly sinister Gianni (Alessandro Gassman) and his psycho girlfriend Lola ( Kate Nauta), who is prone to pulling large automatic weapons miraculously out of her lacy underwear. Frank resists them both with self-assured, often slow-motioned fighting skills, seeming especially disdainful of the sloppy thugs they send to bully him.
Is it any good?
Wild and nonsensical, Transporter 2 delivers a specific sort of pleasure, mostly by way of observing pain inflicted deftly. Like its clever and cheeky precursor, the sequel boasts elegant choreography by Corey Yuen and a crisp performance by Statham, even though his character remains defiantly undeveloped.
As producer Luc Besson has demonstrated in his broad array of action films (from Subway to The Fifth Element to Unleashed), the genre's point is style. Heroes and villains come and go (and are in the end interchangeable), but the look is forever. Frank is precise and resourceful, attentive to details. He keeps his promises, he's relentlessly neat. And he takes just-visible-enough delight in punishing the ugliness of others.
Explore, discuss, enjoy
Families can talk about the moral code that Frank embodies so resolutely. How does Frank's precision represent a relative decency, compared to both the excessive villains and the crass cops? How does the family -- Jack and his parents -- represent the sort of domestic unit Frank both desires and will never have? How does their initial dysfunction lead to lessons on more attentive fatherhood and less reckless motherhood? Why are women portrayed the way they are? Parents of kids learning to drive might also point out the stunts are not to be imitated...and they also may want to address the correlation the movie makes between cars and men's worth.
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Teen, 15 years old
April 9, 2008
AGE
15 and up? Are you crazy!?
Please people this movie is not a 15 year old movie. I read the review and have no idea why you would call this a 15 year old film. The sexual content is basically the equal to or even less than the James Bond films (PG & PG13.) As for the viloence, ya its got some and its basically non-stop, but its all mainly martial arts and some shooting and hardly any blood. So please people take your kids to this even if their 10.
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Adult
April 9, 2008
AGE
Good moral with lead character
Lead character sticks to the good guy, even though sometimes he has to be bad... he keeps his promises, doesn't give in to temptation (boy's mother's come-on), and is a good friend. It shows that even tough guys can be good and not led astray.
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Teen, 17 years old
April 9, 2008
AGE
great movies of teens 12+
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Kid, 10 years old
June 16, 2011
AGE
great movie for teens
It was a great movie but really violent.
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Teen, 13 years old
May 1, 2010
AGE
this is the best out of all of them but parents should be cautions very violent
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Adult
October 24, 2009
AGE
very good for pre teens 11 and over
veryyy good for pre teens lots of killing and action 11 and over
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Teen, 13 years old
December 26, 2008
AGE
masum
i like this movie. please i seen
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| Studio: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Director: | Louis Leterrier |
| Cast: | Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Jason Statham |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Run time: | 88 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | September 2, 2005 |
| DVD release date: | January 10, 2006 |
| MPAA rating: | PG-13 |
| MPAA explanation: | Violent action, sexual content, partial nudity, brief language |
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