Film Certification

18 - BORAT, Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

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Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences.

This is an 18 certificate, as there is nudity, swearing and sexual references that would not be suitable to a person under 18 years of age.

Film Certification

15 - AVPR: ALIEN VERSUS PREDATOR REQUIEM

A little town in the hills of Colorado will become the battleground between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial lifeforms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien facehuggers are released in the crash, and an even more evil creature - a hybrid Alien/Predator - is also released. A man & his son hunting in the forests near the crash site soon become the first victims of the facehuggers, and when a Predator receives data about the crash on his home planet, he comes to Earth. One at a time, the inhabitants of the town become targets of the Aliens and the Predator, including the local sheriff, a young female soldier recently returned from Iraq, and several teens. Though the National Guard is called in, they are unable to stop the deadly creatures, and a plan is set in motion to destroy the town with a nuclear device.. imbd.com

In Gunnison County, a spacecraft crashes in the woods bringing a powerful hybrid Alien hosted inside the pilot Predator. The local Buddy Benson and his son Sam are hunting in the forest and witness the crash, but they are chased and killed by the Alien. Meanwhile another Predator lands on the spot seeking out the Alien and destroying the evidences of their presence on Earth. The dwellers of the town find themselves in the middle of a battlefield between the two deadly extraterrestrial creatures, and the small group of survivors splits the leadership between Sheriff Eddie Morales and the bad-boy Dallas Howard that have different opinions about the best means to escape from the beings.

Film Classifications.

12/12A - SPIDERMAN 3

Peter Parker has begun to feel secure in his life and plans to propose to Mary Jane. While Peter and Mary Jane are on a date, a small meteorite crashes nearby, and an extraterrestrial symbiote attaches itself to Peter's moped. Meanwhile, escaped convict Flint Marco falls into a particle accelerator that fuses his body with surrounding sand. The result allows him to shape shife at will, becoming the Sandman.

Peter's best friend Harry Osborn, who seeks vengeance for his father's death, which he believes Peter caused, attacks him. During the scuffle, Harry injures his head and suffers from partial amnesia, making him forget his vendetta.

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Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) finally has the girl of his dreams, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), and New York City is in the throes of Spider-Mania! But when a strange alien symbiote turns Spiderman's suit black, his darkest demons come to light, changing Spiderman inside as well as out. Spiderman is in for the fight of his life against a lethal mix of villains - The deadly Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Venom (Topher Grace), and the new Goblin (James Franco) - as well as the enemy within himself.

This film is a 12/12A which means only children over twelve may see the film unless accompanied by an adult, this is because Spiderman 3 has some scenes that may distress children under the age of 12 unless an adult is present.

Film Classification.

PG - The Golden Compass

In a parallel world ruled by the Magisterium where people's souls have animal shapes, the orphan Lyra Belaqua is educated in the Jordan College, and her uncle and Professor Lord Asriel is her tutor. Lyra accidentally overhears a conversation about a research of Lord Asriel in the North Arctic and the existence of a powerful Dust that unites differently worlds. When her best friend Roger is kidnapped by evil Gobblers, Lyra promises to rescue him. She is invited to go to the north with the influential Mrs. Coulter and the Jordan's Vicer-Chancellor secretly gives her a magical golden compass capable of revealing the truth. When Lyra finds that Mrs. Coulter is the leader of the Gobblers, she escapes from her house and the runaway girl begins an amazing adventure in a war to save her friend and the other missing children with her allied Gyptians, Witches and strong Armored Bear Lorek Byrnison.

This film is suitable as a PG film as it is child friendly but contains some violence that may require an adult for comfort.

Examples of Film Classifications.

U - UP (2009)

A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. they both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years on and Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go into a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However, he has a stowaway aboard. An eight year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Toegther they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin.

Up is suitable as A "U" as it have a positive moral framework and an upbeat storyline, with no threat/violence/horror that isn't counterbalanced.