The Watch

Release Date: 27 July 2012

Note: Formerly called Neighborhood Watch.

Because we only review G, PG, and PG-13 movies at Parent Previews we did not review this title. For your convenience, we have provided some brief information about the film’s synopsis and content.

Synopsis: When a group of suburban dads (Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill) decide to form a neighborhood watch group, they never suspect that they will end up defending their community from an alien attack.

This additional information about the movie’s content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards:

Violence:

- Frequent explicit violence.

- Gory and grotesque images.

- Explicit depiction of impalement.

- Depictions of fighting, beating, shooting, evisceration and decapitation.

Sexual Content:

- Scene depicting several characters engaged in sexually suggestive activity.

- Breast nudityin a sexual context.

- Simulated sexual activity.

- Implied sexual activity.

- Embracing and kissing.

- Fondling.

- Frequent use of crude and sexual language, references and innuendo.

- Crude content.

- Approximately 47 instances of sexual language.

Language:

- Approximately 145 instances of coarse language.

- Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, sometimes in sexual contexts.

- Excessive use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, and vulgar expressions

- Slurs.

Drugs and Alcohol:

- Alcohol abuse.

- Substance abuse.

- Two scenes of drug use involving marijuana.

- One portrayal of implied illegal and prescription drug use for recreational purposes – no detail.

Extra-terrestrials attack other Earthlings in the movies War of the Worlds, Aliens in the Attic and Megamind.

The Watch comes to home video in a rated (theatrical) and unrated version on November 13, 2012.