| Overall: | C+ |
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| Violence: | C- |
| Sexual Content: | C+ |
| Language: | C+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B+ |
| Run Time: | 99 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
99% of the spiders in this movie are computer generated, however they are all based on real spider species. The official site (listed below) has a basic spider dictionary, but some of the scenes from the movie may be disturbing to young readers. You may find more spider info at this page from Washington State University:
http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1548/eb1548.html And for those jumping spiders, look here:
http://spiders.arizona.edu/nasaltshome.html

Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for