Son of Rambo
HEADLINE: ** Not Entirely Family Friendly **
Title: SON OF RAMBO
Quality: * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: VV
Sex: None
Nudity: N
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: May 2, 2008
TIME: 95 minutes
STARRING: Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Stevenson, Ed Westwick, and Neil Dudgeon
DIRECTOR: Garth Jennings
PRODUCERS: Nick Goldsmith
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Hengameh Panahi, Benjamin Goldhirsh and Bristol Baughan
WRITER: Garth Jennings
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Vantage
CONTENT: (RoRo, C, B, HH, PCPC, AbAb, M) Strong Romantic worldview about personal freedom and imagination, with two or three prayers or appeals to God in a Christian context and a Christian boy as a protagonist, but the boy rebels against the strict rules of his family's legalistic Plymouth Brethren church and his widowed mother eventually leaves that fellowship, so the movie seems to have a strong politically correct humanist worldview against religion with no balance; four obscenities, four strong profanities and four light profanities; strong slapstick violence with dangerous looking stunts when children make action movie such as boy flung over objects, people hit with objects, falls, fighting, and two near drownings; no sex; no nudity; no alcohol; underage smoking; and, lying, bully extorts father's watch from another boy, bullying, and strange sequence where kids hold a secret party with strange forms of candy that may remind some of psychedelic drug parties in the 1960s.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children to adults
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John Lesher, President
Paramount Vantage (aka Paramount Classics)
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SUMMARY: SON OF RAMBOW is a quirky, partly autobiographical tale, set in the early 1980s, about a young British boy from a weird offshoot of the Plymouth Brethren Christian sect, who gets involved with making his own movie after seeing a Rambo movie for the first time. SON OF RAMBOW is rated PG-13, so it has some brief foul language that's not entirely family friendly and contains anti-religion themes that may turn off many family viewers.
IN BRIEF:
SON OF RAMBOW is a quirky, partly autobiographical tale, set in the early 1980s. The story is Will Proudfoot, a young British boy from a weird offshoot of the Plymouth Brethren Christians, who gets involved with making his own movie after seeing a Rambo movie for the first time. Will lies to his mother about what he's doing. Then, the other children in school hear about the exciting movie Will and his new friend Lee are making. Will lets them get involved with making the movie, but this drives a wedge between Will and his new chum.
The trailers of SON OF RAMBOW make the movie look like a very funny family movie, but it is rated PG-13, so it contains some of the foul language associated with that rating. Also, some of the foul language comes from the lips of Will's new friend, Lee. Furthermore, the movie takes a dim view of the restraints on Will's "freedom" and "creativity" by the religious leaders at his mother's church. This Romantic, anti-religious worldview prevents the movie from being as entertaining and inspiring as it could have been, especially for family viewers.
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