INSIDE OUT

Review

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But it is not surprising that the possession of a Christmas candle to what happened 11 years to the daughter of soul.

Take a fun-Riley, awkward, Hockey Minnesota lover boy. Of course, it can not uncommon outside. MA immerse you in your brain and you will see towering shelves full of memories and scary forests of broccoli in your subconscious, City cloud forming in the imagination and dreams take shape in the stadium of the American psyche.

And most importantly, the tower, the basic work of Riley emotions: joy, sadness, disgust, anger and fear. Turn buttons and knobs and be able to help Riley through every day, do lots of memories of marble all the time. Most of these balls are finally out of a long-term storage. But a handful to look in the control room. They are your memories of key moments in EU critics in product development that all identity Riley islands. It is an island dedicated to friends, other family. He Ile Goofball the island and hockey, Riley memory his first goal driven.

Remember Fortunately, part of the Great and all his main Riley was happy. It is a pleasure, of course. In anger, fear and disgust all have their place, Joy maintains really rock party. It provides young leader through life with a healthy and positive dose provides more memory Marmi are so hot, unique glow of happiness there.

He does his best to ensure that sadness-ray glasses nothing Eeyore Emotions All Touch. Whenever the fingers of Mrs. plinks in a memory, after all, there is a deep shade of blue. Frankly, some of Joy "is confused why Li sadness, s first. I mean, why do you need this Debbie Downer appears to be a part of your life?

But if the Riley family eradicates Minnesota and moved to San Francisco, a bit strange sadness approaches. Suddenly playing ever. And when sadness Riley takes control on the first day of the new school girl, I remember not abandoned blue Rolls ... and goes directly to the bank's main memory.

Well, Joy color can not be sure that the memory of a blueberry Miring Riley cores to be reminded. Have you unzipped pair of memory and try to keep, but so that LEU sadness and criticism, the remaining memories cores joined Riley suddenly sucked out of the tower and thrown into the world of the great minds of fertile Riley.

Riley immediately without his memories-core Incerti, who or what do you like most lost. Anger, fear and disgust are alone in the tower. And if we do not find few happy NOT MoDo In exchange Take a little sadness for you, you so-Devel Riley "Become very irritable.

In the first place, let's talk about Riley. Core memories even when intact and wide range of emotions under control, she is a Deliziosa daughter, the apple of his eye collective loving parents. And while mom and dad are seriously stressed movement, Riley does what he can to his moral appointment Alt to keep its own interest for them.

If joy is drawn into the Pero control tower but not Riley pair and cower and jump tariff sulking very occasionally. And all this lake will not in itself, it is a fantastic representation of what guys feel (and adults) when they are under stress not the pocket. If Six 11 and the whole world is your change your inner world is shaken, too. And here we come to know our feelings, even those that may seem, s "poor" area can help stabilize things.

Riley Not ever parents understand what is going on with his suddenly dark girl, but who want to help. And so make through love and patience and understanding. It's pretty obvious that Mom and Dad are great (but not always perfect) parents and Riley, intestines, see how they come, Earl. This means Inside Out is not satisfied, terrible things are described to preserve our life, if he is allowed a sudden lurch. No, he wants to show us how important it is in the family to retire and go.

There is much interest in the welfare of little Riley in your mind to be. All the emotions that Riley will be healthy and happy, sorrow, even that sometimes she feels will be readable. And there are places in the brain Riley ran all the victims by Making your return to balance.

Intellectual Content

Concepts Inside Out in parallel, without explicit reference to the biblical concepts of joy based on luck, our vocation to be the total life experience, not just the parts that are quite so. For example, see Matthew 11 (I'll cover this more with the findings.)

MAX Movies

REVIEW

Justin Wincott knows what is good. You can jump on your mountain bike race through ramp over and play with anyone in the wooded slopes twist in your area. And he knows his way around the slopes and pitfalls of piracy of online games.

Yes, it is the second activity is not always exactly legal, but thinks he can make a few dollars when you sell software links to a dark city guy named Emilio. Justin usually away from a guy like Emilio. In this case, however, the type is associated with best friend Justin, Chuy, so ... what can you do, right?

However, there are two types of Justin skills. And, frankly, if not an increase or a cut, well, he is busy trying to fly under the radar of the military spirit of his father. His mother is legal. But Dad? Now, say, Justin prefers to remain from that person is often critical as possible.

Then the older brother Justin, Kyle, was killed in service in Afghanistan. Justin's life sent spinning. And the shock almost killed his mother. This is difficult to see fail. But there is something else.

It turns out that Kyle trained military dog, Max, was sent home with the body of Kyle. The dog would assist Marines in dangerous areas, and searching for hidden weapons. When his master died in the shooting, the worst, Max left the event with the same type of PTSD that human soldiers can experience. He was so traumatized that he one near him.

No, but Justin is almost immediate animal connection. Do you think that the young Max and his owner were brothers? May Be. It seems that Justin might be the only person who can help emotionally hurt these dogs. Indeed Wincotts found that those who were not taking Max. And mom and dad are not listening.

Justin is not immediately excited about this new agreement, but with time and a little help from Carmen, a dog savvy this strange cousins ??Chuy first link between the child and the animal becomes a constant link. And as one thing leads to another, Justin realizes that he is and that old war hero ovens are a good team. Being a duo-high-jump with a talent for sniffing local crime track display. Not to mention, maybe dig what really happened to Kyle!

The positive elements

Although Justin is furious as a self-centered teenager, when we find it, their interactions with Max help you see the emotional bond with his older brother and the deep feelings you have for your friends and family. Select Justin and his friends also take heroic to help those in need, even if their enemies seem very connected and powerful to defeat the measures.

For all relational tribes, Justin and his stepfather to protect others and their love for each other. At one point, the father admits that some of their own shortcomings and tells his son: Carmen explains that believes that increased support and with his family and friends "A hero always tells the truth, whatever the consequences.".

Spiritual content

During the funeral of Kyle Church choir sings an arrangement of "Nearer my God to Thee."

Sexual Content

Justin falls in love with Carmen, and two shared a short kiss.

Violent content

There is never anything but we have soldiers under fire, and then to see Kyle died after an explosion and a brief exchange of fire. A man falls a rocky slope, he hit a rock and broke his leg. A truck full of weapons and ammunition Road caught fire and blowing clouds (of course) to kill the driver.

Men hunt Justin and his friends with shots and shoot against children and Max several times. Father Justin prisoner by armed men, and says he needs to be killed for criminal activities too. Papa snails a bandit in the face and hits the arm of a man in a door of the van. Max jumps a man attacking Justin and the two fall from a railway bridge. Max takes a couple of pins and Rottweiler runs (Then see the dog, and bandaged survivor.); Pets roles and fighting and biting.

Profane or crude language

When Justin spits a less offensive ("Shit") of the F-word, corrected her mother. "You can not hide your head in the Word of God, in search of some letters" This is a great tip would Plugged not have said it better.

Elsewhere, you hear: "Well, I'll be D - NED" and "you're stupid."

Drugs and alcohol CONTENT

Father drinking a beer, offering Kyle friend and colleague, Tyler, who refuses to say "do not interfere" with his "remedies". But we also see Tyler pull a ball from his pocket.

Other negative elements

Justin does not receive a punishment for stealing illegal gambling. (Although in the end to realize that this is offenders at a cost). The boy also has some risks sometimes dangerous, such as jumping a rock of crack with his bike. Tyler is more to hurt others and cover their bad decisions and often illegal.

Ted 2 Movies

REVIEW

Ted is a bear of little brain. Not surprisingly, given its liberal drug abuse and alcohol. And then, as a happily ever after finishing his first film, Ted 2 shows us that life is not only beer and appears for Red Sox alive toys games.

Ted and his wife Tami-Lynn, the experience, the problem of the relationship, and Ted believe that a child could be his son is the only balm for her double pear. "If we were to love a child," he said, "teach us to love again."

Of course, when Christopher Robin Ted can be around some of its Ted wise counsel they come to think differently. But no one would have Robin in the nest of a mouse is so, now would they? So when Ted and Tami Lynn start the process of getting a child through sperm donation, said Ted can not, his father, because it is not technically a person.

With this small rejection, the legal system as a whole acquires another Ted. Toys by Hasbro can marry? question. And maybe wait a few disputes related to the processor and custody escapes my Pony dolls, said system, said Ted property and eliminate outbreaks of all rights in the bear was granted. He is fired from his concert food. His marriage to Tami-Lynn is canceled. Their rewards cards are redeemed. It is not long before all Ted's life was taken away.

It is a bear of little hope.

But Ted and his best friend, John is not alone in having such disasters lie. (Also, this means more smoke keep weeds, in this case, is absolutely the most disaster to bed.) In this case, the non-full state sufficient for both Ted person enough time to see a lawyer bong cancel.

When the lawyer, Samantha L. Jackson, whips a bong, well, you know that the most appropriate women to handle your case.

POSITIVE

Ted is not legally a person, but that did not stop developing a strong friendship with its owner, John prevented. Both share a genuine affection, and John shows the willingness to risk his life for his fellow bears.

In fact, if John dies save almost Ted the bear deeply regrets his fallen friend. And show emotions on camera and broadcast called the nation, it is crucial for them, trying to prove that Ted needs to meet the criteria for "personality" (as defined in the film): self-confidence, empathy and emotions and complex process capability experiencing .

Intellectual Content

If Ted, John and Samantha stumble a high quality marijuana field, John expresses his admiration and amazement in religious terms, and offers a prayer to Jesus in thanksgiving. "I'll see you in heaven": After John became dead, sinister force begins Ted Ted beat him angry, said: A lawyer said that humanity is a gift that God gave to man; Ted asks if he has a soul.

Sexual Content

Ted (plush) and Tami-Lynn (adult women) obviously has traditionally children. So there is much discussion and subsequent plot points of sperm donors. Also Ted and John are planning sexual assault of great football Tom Brady (including sexual anatomy, miracles). We see John begins to masturbate through his jeans, and he speaks of "Asian teen porn."

A gag hijinks race was tied in a lot of large number of sperm samples. And a variation involves the kind of man who is in porn. When looking at the laptop Ted John, carefully organized boring child pornography collection (for all kinds of sexual perversions).

Obscene, slow dance done what the next step by a homosexual couple. We hear references to the white man and the female anatomy, oral sex, manual stimulation, sex gay bathroom, S & M and pedophilia. As a joke, Ted wrote "penus" before Samantha. Crosses a custom to present the horse for a child. See bears mate in the film festival celibacy for Ted. Y "is known that Tami-Lynn smuggle a knife in court through the vagina. Samantha and Ted with a tube-shaped penis. The weapon

Violent content

Ted is sometimes hit or thrown both Tom Brady in which John described as "perfect spiral," and once removed. There is a plan to kidnap the bear and opened it. When Samantha Ted can ride the machine for 20 minutes, filling fellow travelers scared (press the side mirror of a car while working in the street while smoking marijuana) and finally a hill hangs on the wall of a barn.

Several clashes broke out during Comic-Con in New York, where a couple is present intimidate "geek" gay, trigger and shoot before being thrown in a glass panel. Someone almost killed by a model of the Starship Enterprise. Ted, John and his friends Pelt move with fruit. A child is hit by a bicycle. Ted pulls out a gun and fired a step back again.

Large or profane

It would be easier in some way, you're here to say, which is not bad words spoken. Ted 2 contains some words of 100 full-f, more than 50 times the word, almost all other oath known to man, including "A", "B - ch", "b - after", "M -. -" "p ---" and every conceivable obscene synonyms "penis" too: the n-word and "fg" The name of God is about 25 times more exclamation abused and understood half. Name - "Mr N" Jesus "is about 20 times abused.

Drugs and alcohol

As already mentioned, John and Ted are happy when they discover that his lawyer, Samantha, smoking marijuana, much as they do. Together, they use a variety of bong, and Ted is considering its own. As John Samantha choice smoke marijuana has a bad trip: Refused wall, the entire wall and starts to cry when she heard an unexpected noise nearby.

Ted and the others drink lots of beer and whiskey, champagne and other alcoholic beverages.

MORTDECAI MOVIE

REVIEW

Well, as broke as a lord like him can be. After all, he still has a few days to come up with the 8 or 10 million pounds he needs to pay back taxes and the like. But, surely, with a bit of footwork and a little madcap Mortdecai elbow grease he can liquidate some of his estate's lesser artworks and come up with the needed cash.

He's even grown a very dashing mustache to show how serious he is in his quest. All the Mortdecai men, at some point, have grown a splash of debonair facial hair as a way of putting their best face forward, so to speak. And this is Charlie's time.

Now, the fact that his impossibly leggy wife, Johanna, gags every time she even considers kissing his newly hairy upper lip is a tad disconcerting. But he'll work through that. Wasn't it Margaret Thatcher who once said, "Kissing a man without a mustache is like eating an egg without salt"? So that settles it! This is a new look and a new beginning for one Charlie Mortdecai.

And, indeed, no sooner has he grown out the first stages of his suave soup-strainer than his old college friend, MI5 Inspector Martland, approaches him with a case that will surely set his financial house aright. There is a murder to solve and a missing Goya painting to find, it seems. All Charlie need do is use his numerous art dealer contacts and find a few clues to the mystery.

Granted, there's something dark in the midst of this tomfoolery. There are Russian thugs and an international terrorist in the mix. And even rumors of some rather nasty characters seeking out Nazi gold. But pishposh, Charlie can handle himself. Besides, his manservant, Jock, is a loyal sort and good with his fists. Together they can take care of anything dangerous that may pop up along the way.

POSITIVE ELEMENTS

For all their flirtations with the idea of having an affair with someone else, both Charlie and Johanna ultimately make it clear that they're dedicated to their marriage. And both are willing to make sacrifices to maintain that relationship. Jock repeatedly puts himself in danger to fight off Charlie's attackers.

SEXUAL CONTENT

Early on it's stated that Jock has the ability to bed nearly any attractive female he happens upon. To prove it, apparently, we're shown a number of his conquests in various states of undress—from a woman sporting an unbuttoned shirt to a lady dressed in nothing but panties and a cleavage-boosting top. In one case we hear Jock and his girlfriend (for the night) having loud sex in the next room over. And in another we see him and another woman—who turns out to be a newly minted mother who just stepped away for a moment from her husband and child—after they've had sex in an airplane's lavatory.

When Charlie and Jock fly to Los Angeles, Charlie makes note of the fleshy sensuality on display around them (in the form of scantily clad women). "I feel as if we've taken a wrong turn and walked onto the set of a pornographic film," he quips. While in the States, Charlie also meets up with a wealthy American businessman named Krampf and his "nympho" daughter Georgina. Georgina soon invites him to fondle and squeeze her breasts, and later makes other seductive moves on him. Krampf interrupts them but says there will likely still be time for Charlie to have sex with his daughter before dinner. Georgina and another man openly kiss and grope each other.

Johanna and Georgina both wear formfitting and revealing outfits that the camera gladly ogles. Johanna wears skimpy nightclothes, and we see her from the back (waist up) as she slips naked into a bathtub with Charlie. After a flirtatious interaction, Charlie walks out of his wife's bedroom sporting a very visible (clothed) erection. In a flashback, a college student walks in on Johanna and Charlie's sexual interlude. (The pair is naked but strategically covered.) We see a number of classical nude paintings hanging on the walls. Charlie makes mention of attending Eaton University where "b-ggery" was rampant. Thinly veiled sex jokes and double entendres pepper the script, dealing with topics ranging from infidelity to lust.

VIOLENT CONTENT

We see a woman slump over dead after being shot in the back with an arrow. A man keels over on his desk when he's stabbed to death. One thug nearly lops off one of Charlie's fingers with a large knife, and others attempt to do the same to Jock. Mobsters pull down Charlie's pants and move to attach a car battery to his boxer-clad testicles.

On a number of occasions Jock takes on several foes at a time in visceral fistfights, smashing windows, doors, tables, shelves and various other bits of scenery around them. He's set on fire. He's attacked by a Doberman Pinscher. He's shot multiple times.

Various car chases result in lots of smashed sheet metal and people being thrown around. A guy is thumped in the head by a chunk of wood. A man swings a straight razor while fighting in a car. Some stumbling buffoonery results in a chain reaction explosion that blows out an entire hotel room. Somebody gets sprayed in the face with Mace.

CRUDE OR PROFANE LANGUAGE

Two f-words. Three or four uses each of "d--n" and "h---." And one or two each of "b--ch," "b--tard" "bloody" and "b-gger." Unusual yet evocative crudities are used to describe anatomical body parts ("bismark," "bone" and "tagger" among them). Jesus' and God's names are misused a couple of times apiece.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL CONTENT

Charlie generally has a glass of something like port at hand wherever he goes—from his sitting room to the back of his limo to the bathtub. In fact, Charlie directly addresses his unquenchable need for alcohol, saying, "I'll have you know that I am not an alcoholic, I'm a drunkard. There's a difference."

And Charlie's not alone in that department. Nearly everyone else around him is ready to down a glass or two at any bar or social gathering. Even Inspector Martland is instantly eager for a glass of wine, while on duty or not.

Charlie gets injected with some kind of knockout drug. And a vial of some noxious drug is sprinkled over a banquet table, causing some to get violently ill.

OTHER NEGATIVE ELEMENTS

That last scene is rife with vomit-filled sight gags.

CONCLUSION

In the mid- to late-1970s, English author Kyril Bonfiglioli created a very popular four-part series of comic-thriller novels about an aristocratic toff of an art dealer who unravels mysteries with the aid of his manservant Jock. To some, I'm sure the prospect of transferring that quirky and dryly British world to the big screen held a lot of promise. And, of course, who else would Hollywood hotshots pick but Johnny Depp to play the lead?

Those moviegoers hoping to step into a farcical, immersive cinematic world filled with jolly good charm and wit, however, are going to be sorely disappointed. Yes, Mr. Depp certainly wraps himself up gleefully in his prancing and roguishly mustachioed narcissistic character. But, quite frankly, words such as charming, witty and, well, even moderately amusing don't apply in the slightest to this film or its cast.

The vintage post-swinging '60s feel that the filmmakers were shooting for never quite congeals other than in the form of a fun musical underscore. The overwrought crime-caper script is rambling and borderline boring. And besides a running mustache gag that's worth a grin or two, the sparse and sometimes shrill humor falls much closer to Austin Powers raunch than Inspector Clouseau madcap.

WHERE HOPE GROWS MOVIE REVIEW

Every warning light on the dashboard of Calvin Campbell's aging Saab is blinking. But the pro baseball player turned unemployed alcoholic isn't paying attention. Not only does he not notice the literal warning lights as he careens down the road, his drinking problem means he's missing the figurative warning lights in his life, too.

His 17-year-old daughter, Katie, for instance, begs to spend time with him. But he's more comfortable hanging out with his bottle, a habit that's propelled his girl into the clutches of a conniving cad named Colt.

Calvin knows that boy's bad news. In his daughter's mind, however, Dad is worse news. "You're a pathetic little man who lives a pathetic little life," she tells him after picking him up drunk from the police station one night. She has no interest in his slurred apology, and she scorches him with this bitter shot: "I just want to make sure you know I've given up on you."

Calvin's perilously close to giving up on himself, too, of course. But then something unexpected happens: He meets Produce.

Produce is an employee at the local ValuMart. An employee who happens to have Down syndrome. We never learn his real name, but we certainly learn how he got his supermarket moniker: Produce knows produce. Every SKU number. Every detail about fresh products. "A tomato is a fruit," Produce corrects Calvin one day after the older man accidentally steps on one and apologizes for smashing what he thinks is a vegetable.

And at the end of that encounter, Produce hugs Calvin, saying, "Have a magnificent day."

It's been a long time since Calvin Campbell's had a magnificent day. Hugs have been in equally short supply. But as his unlikely friendship with Produce deepens each time he goes to the store to buy booze—which is every day—it prompts Calvin to ponder the possibility of something other than the drunken, disappointing and dysfunctional life he's drifted into.

Naturally, Calvin's got to hit bottom before he pays any real attention to those flashing warning lights—and there's a lot of drama on the way down before he takes his first redemptive steps back up.

PITCH PERFECT 2 MOVIE

REVIEW

It's been three years since the Barden University Bellas won their first a cappella national title. And what a three years it's been. They're the royalty of the U.S. a cappella establishment, winning awards year after year while traveling to events all around the country. It's been such a blissful stretch that one of the group's leaders, Chloe, is now happily embarking on her seventh year of college—relentlessly shifting majors and class loads just so she can keep lilting with her golden-throated BFFs.

This is the year, however, that calamity strikes.

During a special performance—in front of the president of the United States and his family, no less—Fat Amy has a major wardrobe malfunction. Make that a wardrobe nuclear holocaust. While hanging suspended from the auditorium ceiling by bands of silk, she slips, splits her tights open and reveals to the crowd, well, let's just say it this way: that she isn't wearing any underwear.

This embarrassing mishap not only makes national headlines, it also gets the Bellas totally banned from any further domestic a cappella competitions. The devastated singers have only one chance at redemption: they must do what no other American team has ever done before and win the World A Cappella Championships in Copenhagen.

And if you think that'll be tough, you ain't just whistling Dixie ... with eight-part syncopated harmony.

In fact, at this point it appears to be something of an impossible feat. For the humiliated Bellas seem to have lost their musical mojo. The group's arranger and mash-up mastermind, Beca, has all but checked out as she works toward a post-graduation music career. And on top of that, an impressive German group appears nearly unbeatable.

POSITIVE ELEMENTS

As the girls work to rebuild their group, they realize how important it is to enjoy the time they have together—to value one another's skills and friendship. And some of them, Chloe and Beca at the fore, come to realize that taking the next step in life can be a rewarding, even if difficult, experience.

SEXUAL CONTENT

We see Fat Amy and a guy named Bumper kiss and roll around on top of each other. It's implied that they regularly sneak away for sexual trysts. Seeing far less than her presidential audience sees, we still catch a glimpse of Amy's bare backside when her costume rips.

One of the Bellas is an openly gay girl who eyes several of her cohorts seductively and later admits to secretly touching one of the other girl's "goodies" while they're camping out and all sleeping together. A new Bella recruit named Emily talks about the five-octave range her mother and father managed to sing out while having sex.

In rehearsals the Bellas wear yoga pants, and the camera takes time to ogle their backsides. The Das Sound Machine group often wears mesh shirts that showcase guys' bare chests and girls' cleavage. During a sing-off, various groups compete in the category of "Songs About Butts." A guys' a cappella group sings an innuendo-laden song about girls "sucking too hard."

There are a number of jokes and puns about straight, gay and transgendered sex, as well as some lowbrow talk about body parts, erections, etc.

VIOLENT CONTENT

The girls experience a few pratfall thumps during campsite teambuilding exercises.

CRUDE OR PROFANE LANGUAGE

One use of "effing" and a handful of s-words. We also hear several uses each of "a--," "d--n," "b--ch" and "h---." "Oh my god" is spit out a half-dozen times. References to genitalia include "d--k." Fat Amy flips her middle finger at someone. A girl is called an "Asian Jesus."

DRUG AND ALCOHOL CONTENT

These co-eds (some of them still teens) drink beer and hard liquor at a couple of different parties and a singing competition.

OTHER NEGATIVE ELEMENTS

There are lots of crude gags tossed around about Amy's televised crotch exposure. (The explicit visual documentation is kept just out of our sight.) Amy blasts out several scatological quips about camping without toilet paper. And this cast isn't above loosing a few globally minded ethnic slurs.

CONCLUSION

The world-famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen once said, "Where words fail, music speaks." And from a certain perspective, this movie backs that up.

If the pic contained nothing more than its current collection of tightly choreographed and gorgeously arranged a cappella mash-ups—strung together, say, with reflective moments of unvarnished silence—well, we might start talking about whether or not we could really call this flick pitch perfect.

Unfortunately, there are all those other ... words to contend with.

Just like its cinematic predecessor, Pitch Perfect 2 has a few genuinely funny moments and some likeable characters. But most of those unnecessarily wordy parts—where the tuneful collegians have to talk instead of sing—are packed full of randy-to-raunchy pun beats and laugh-line low-notes. And that's saying nothing further about Fat Amy's "accident." Or even her nickname.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD MOVIE

REVIEW

Those are the currencies in Mad Max's world—liquid assets, if you will. Water and gas are rare wonders in this dry, dusty dystopia—the elements that keep its people alive and their vehicles moving. Blood is cheaper and easier to come by; of value only to the person to whom it belongs, and sometimes not even him. But there are those who crave the blood, who treat it like a narcotic biofuel.

Immortan Joe built his empire on these three commodities. He hoards the water inside his stone citadel. Sometimes he'll open the floodgates and allow it to gush from the rocks, where his serfs below can lap it up. He relies on raids for his gasoline, sending out war parties in their makeshift machines to pillage and steal precious fuel. The blood is for his War Boys, white-bleached zealots who form his army's spine. They love the stuff, and so Immortan Joe keeps them happy with a steady supply.

Yes, Immortan Joe is a rich, rich man. He owns everything of value in this picked-over world, including the women. He keeps several "breeders" in his citadel, for both his amusement and his legacy. There's nothing he'd like more than to have a bevy of Immortan Joe Jr.'s all set to inherit his broken kingdom.

So when one of his most trusted generals, Imperator Furiosa, absconds with the women and speeds into the desert driving one of Joe's most intimidating war machines, the Immortan one takes issue. He sends his army out to retrieve his stolen goods, with he himself taking the lead. His War Boys are thrilled: They pick up their steering wheels, strap a few living "blood bags" to the front of their vehicles and settle in for a few hours of glorious carnage.

POSITIVE ELEMENTS

Mad Max: Fury Road is as bleak as all get-out. But if you dig into the dust of this flick, you'll find that it's actually (just like its predecessors) about hope. Sure, the world's been shattered, but maybe, somewhere, there's a little glue to piece some of it back together.

First piece: The idea that people are not property, no matter what Immortan Joe says. "We are not things!" Joe's wives insist. Furioso believes that to be true, and so she rescues them and promises to take them to a "green place of many mothers." It's a risky mission. She admits that she's looking for redemption—a way, perhaps, to make up for all the nasty things she's done in Joe's employ. And, frankly, she's more a consistent hero here than the titular one.

See, Max starts off a little crazy. He says that the stress of this broken world distilled his motivations to one very simple instinct: "survive." But as he spends more time with Furioso and her truckload of beautiful stowaways, he begins acting more self-sacrificially. He risks his life for them and, when given a chance to go his own way, continues on with them—helping them to see what they all hope is a more promising future.

Their example seems to rub off on their cargo. During the course of this adventure, Joe's "breeders" become more than pretty, objectified playthings. They become helpmates, sometimes putting themselves in harm's way for the benefit of others. They also stress the value of all life, even the lives of their enemies, begging Max and Furioso to not kill needlessly.

A War Boy named Nux has a change of heart, too: After he falls out of Joe's good graces, he finds a new purpose with Max and Furioso.

SPIRITUAL CONTENT

Immortan Joe styles himself as a sort of savior-god. "It is from my hand that you will rise from the ashes of this world!" he thunders to his serfs before bestowing upon them his "gift" of water. He promises his War Boys that if they fight and die well for him, he will meet them in Valhalla (the violent Norse heaven), perhaps leading them through the gates himself.

The War Boys believe his shtick: When Joe casts a glance in Nux's direction, the pale rider sounds like an 8-year-old boy who got a real Iron Man suit for Christmas. They go to their deaths with zealous glee, coating their mouths with chrome spray so they'll look their shiny best when they arrive in the afterlife. They seem to pray before a pile of steering wheels.

The good guys are not so superstitious. When one of Joe's ex-wives prays, another woman asks her, "To who?" "Anyone that's listening," she responds.

SEXUAL CONTENT

The women taken captive by Joe are referred to as both "wives" and "breeders," and he regularly calls them his "property." They are indeed his sexual slaves, and he forces them to always dress provocatively. Cloth or leather covers critical areas, but legs, shoulders and midriffs are frequently bared, and sometimes those bits of critical cloth aren't very thick. Each woman initially wears what looks to be a fearsome, teeth-lined chastity belt. (They remove them at the earliest opportunity.)

Joe also keeps a number of heavy, well-endowed women on hand for their breast milk. We see their breasts and the devices used to milk them. (Characters both drink and wash their faces in the milk.) Max, Furioso and the rest happen upon a naked woman in a crane-like tower, begging to be released. (We see her from the side and rear.)

VIOLENT CONTENT

Mad Max: Fury Road is, essentially, a two-hour car chase through the wastelands of Armageddon. It stops only reluctantly for the occasional breather. And the violence it proffers is sporadically extreme.

A good chunk of someone's face is ripped away at one point, with the camera giving us glimpses of the resulting gore and blood. Max is shot through the hand by a crossbow bolt. Chained to an unconscious War Boy, he tries to shoot the guy's hand off (but the shotgun doesn't work). People hang upside down from Joe's citadel ceiling, providing blood for the War Boys. Some of the bodies don't look like they're still all there—a suggestion, perhaps, that they're being slowly eaten, too. (There's no indication that many of these folks are alive.)

War Boys are analogous to today's suicide bombers, and they consider it a point of honor to die in battle. As such, we see one warrior leap onto a flaming porcupine of a car to blow the thing up. Another fills his own vehicle with gas, planning to smash into a massive war machine, Kamikaze style. People are shot, slashed, stabbed, choked, run over, die in cataclysmic explosions and are thrown around by storms. One man is smashed repeatedly by a piece of machinery.

Lots of the combatants here are women, including (of course) Furioso. That means that much of this violence is perpetrated by or against them. Furioso and Max themselves tangle, hitting, kicking and trying to strangle each other.

We see Max remove a hook from his neck. When someone's lung begins to collapse, Max stabs her in the side to help her breathe, then transfuses his own blood into her (via a pain-inducing makeshift IV) so she'll survive. He stomps on a lizard and seems to eat it while it's still squirming.

Joe demands that a dying pregnant woman's child be cut from her body. It is (offscreen). When the baby also dies, we see its body carelessly discarded like refuse. (The umbilical cord becomes a plaything.)

CRUDE OR PROFANE LANGUAGE

What with all the explosions and such, there's not a lot of room for dialogue in Fury Road. And what there is is often muffled by the cacophony of kabooms. But we still hear characters utter one instance each of the words "b-llocks" and "f-g," and perhaps a full-blown f-word as well.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL CONTENT

As mentioned, the War Boys seem to treat blood as a kind of narcotic. One such warrior is eager to take a half-crazed Max out on the warpath with him (they're connected via a chain and a thin tube), believing that Max's madness will make him super-aggressive, too.

OTHER NEGATIVE ELEMENTS

Several people are burdened with horrific infirmities, including bulbous bumps and boils and grotesquely swollen ankles. People spit in others' faces. Max occasionally "sees" frightening flashes of his dead daughter as a wraith or skeletonized specter.

CONCLUSION

Mel Gibson may no longer be Mad Max, the mantel now having fallen to big, glowering Tom Hardy. But even though the defining star of the series has long since driven out of the frame, Fury Road may well be the most Mad Maxian of all the movies. All of the series' elements are supersized here. Crazy vehicles? Crazier. Creepy, theatrically dressed villains? Creepier, more theatrically dressed. Bloody action? Bloodier.

Director George Miller takes what fans loved about the now-classic series and blows it up like a supersized balloon, and the results have triggered a litany of glowing reviews. One such write-up, published on southcoasttoday.com, declared that "Mad Max: Fury Road will leave your inner 12-year-old giggling with glee."

Now, hold on there one minute, bub. Isn't Fury Road rated R? When you set it up beside Avengers: Age of Ultron, doesn't it look a wee bit like Saw on wheels? Should we really be saying that Fury Road is made for tweens, inner or not?

Look, there's no question Fury Road has its merits, including that thread of hope I mentioned earlier. And for an R-rated movie, it is actually more restrained than it could've been. But we should not lose sight of the brutal fact that this movie caters to our childish affection for frenetic activity and explosions with some very disturbing content in tow. The world of Mad Max, for all the ludicrous dystopian license it takes, is a world that's designed to haunt and shock. If the movie's endgame is to show us 10 minutes of humanity in an inhuman world, let's not forget that 110 minutes is filled with some terrible inhumanity indeed.