Parents' guide to new movies

'Hereafter'

Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language.

What it's about: People who have lost loved ones or have been through near-death experiences are drawn to a man who can actually talk to the dead -- reluctantly.

The kid attractor factor: Matt Damon, an epic tsunami and visions of the afterlife.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Go to the light. Or don't, if you want to hang around to tell the tale.

Violence: A vivid drowning, a deadly car accident.

Language: Bits of profanity.

Sex: Flirtation, rather overt.

Drugs: Wine is consumed.

Parents' advisory: A bit over the heads of small children, but perhaps of some comfort to 'tweens and teens. OK for 10 and up.

'Jacka-- 3D'

Rating: R for male nudity, extremely crude and dangerous stunts throughout, and for language.

What it's about: Those stumbling pals of Johnny Knoxville abuse themselves for pain and profit. Again. In 3-D.

The kid attractor factor: Grown men get naked and get hurt and show off their bodily functions.

Good lessons/bad lessons: No, you really "can't roller skate in a buffalo herd."

Violence: Dog bites, bee stings, slapstick pummeling and pain, pain, pain.

Language: Pretty profane, which considering what's done to the guys, seems appropriate.

Sex: Nudity, urination, defecation. Not sexual, just gross.

Drugs: None on camera.

Parents' advisory: There is more stuff here to ban your kids from imitating or even viewing than any 20 other films out there. Not OK for 15 and under.