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| Charlie and Dan, two middle-aged friends and business partners, are stuck in a rut. Things take a turn when Dan is contacted by an old flame, and he's even more startled to discover that she's been hiding a secret - their two children. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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'Old Dogs' is a comedy about a pair of friends who find themselves in charge of seven-year-old twins. The film contains mild slapstick violence.
The slapstick violence includes a scene in which a frisbee match swiftly becomes highly competitive as various camp rangers take offence at the presence of the two lead characters. This leads to crunching blows, elbow smashes and brief close-up sight of blood on the mouth of one of the rangers after he is hit in the face. T here is a clearly comedic and over-the-top context to this violence. Later in the film there is also a brief clip from one of the 'Friday The 13th' films as men watch it with two children. We see Jason Vorhees advancing with a cleaver and there is sight of a woman screaming as she cowers behind a chair which has a little blood on it. The clip is silent and does not last longer than a couple of seconds. It lacks any of the violence and/or gore present in the actual horror film series that could frighten younger audiences. While the film does not contain any illegal drug use, a comedic sequence focuses on prescription medication getting mixed up by children, leading to all kinds of amusing problems such as a man's hallucinations that people have large heads with tiny eyes, while his friend's mouth is fixed into a wide grin, so that people are offended when they think he's laughing at them. There's no sense that the use of the prescription drugs is glamorised as the men set up the scene by complaining about their various ailments and the medication needed to relieve them. Similarly there is no suggestion that the children are enticed to take any of the pills themselves. Language in the film is mild, with uses of 'damn', 'god' and 'hell'. At one point a character also says 'This is gonna hurt like a mother' when he prepares to have a heartfelt conversation with his friend. The film also features occasional very mild rude humour, such as when a dog is seen urinating onto a carpet, and a scene in which two men beside a camp fire rub bear faeces under their eyes believing it to be charcoal. There is also a sequence in which an embarrassed character turns the heads of black and Asian people around him after he goes to a tanning salon and is given an extremely deep tan by mistake. 'PG' stands for Parental Guidance. A 'PG' film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children. |
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