| Overall: | C |
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| Violence: | D+ |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | B |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C+ |
| Run Time: | 122 |
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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.
Superheroes from the comics are often considered freaks by the rest of society. Would it be challenging to want to help someone if they considered you to be abnormal or strange?
When John initially arrives at the secret facility where Hellboy lives, we see a large 51 on one of the walls. Area 51 is the unofficial name of a top-secret military base near Groom Lake, Nevada. A test site for new aircraft, it is also purported to house alien ships and other UFOs. To find out more, check out the following sites:
www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/area51.html www.desertsecrets.com/area51.html www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm

Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.