| Overall: | B |
|---|---|
| Violence: | D+ |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | B |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B |
| Run Time: | 132 |
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| Video Release: | 05 Jun 2012 |
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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.
How does this film depict crowd mentality? What is the danger of this kind of thinking?
What elements of reality does science fiction allow authors and screenwriters to disregard? What powers does John Carter acquire on Mars that he did not have on Earth?
This movie is based on the novel A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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.