Thursday, September 4, 2008

Kids In Mind

Today I bring you Kids-In-Mind.com. If you have children, take children to movies or just like to know what the movie is rated for then this is your site. I like to know what kind of content is in a movie before I watch it, sometimes I can tell by the trailer, sometimes I can't. At Kids in Mind there is a listing of movies currently out in theaters. With a quick glance you can see the ratings for sex, violence and profanity. When you click on the movie title you can read a synopsis of the movie, and then detailed offenses in each catagory.
Under the sex category anything from kissing, touching, lovemaking or displays of skin are recorded. The good thing about the review is that it doesn't specify which characters offend or when so you don't know who is kissing who, you just know that somewhere in the movie someone kisses. If you haven't seen the movie this really shouldn't spoil it for you.
The violence/gore catagory is just as strict, any kind of physical violence or general gore (blood, guts, etc) counts. The same spoiler rules count here also so you don't know who got their head chopped off.
The profanity category simply counts the number of times certain words are used, and also catalog gestures and explain what the gestures were mentioning. This usually goes into even categorizing name calling and steryotypes.
There are also additional sections for substance use, discussion topics, and message. In the substance use section they discuss any alocohol or other drugs used or mentioned in the film. Discussion topics are a list of moral or values that are displayed or challenged in the film. Topics range from what did the character do right, how could the character have made the situation better to simple moral issues discussed in the film. The message section simply talks about the movies message and tones about certain subjects.
There are also links to the movie's official site, IMDB listing and critics.com.
The site's design is very clean and functional. There are adds on the site, but they don't get in the way and are minimal. Overal this site is very enjoyable and the best I've come across so far, if you're iffy about whether or not to see a movie I would check out this site for a content rating first.

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