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New York Minute |
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Overall comments and recommendationsNew York Minute is a fairly fast paced movie which is fairly humorous, light hearted and with not too much depth. It does portray some behaviours and attitudes which some parents may not wish their children to see. It will probably appeal to the teenage market.
About the movieThis section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) and the associated consumer advice lines.
YMA reviewThis review of the movie New York Minute contains the following information:
A synopsis of the storyJane and Roxy Ryan are twin sisters who are very different in personality. Jane is compulsively neat, overly anxious and in control of where she wants to go with her life. She has her heart set on winning a scholarship to Oxford University and has been preparing the speech she has to give for a very long time. Roxy on the other hand, has a much more laid back attitude to life. She’s not interested in school and spends most of her energies devising ways to avoid it. Her great love is music and she longs to play the drums in a rock band. Their Mum died some years earlier and Jane feels that she has to take responsibility both for her father, who leads a busy life as a doctor, and for Roxy. Jane wakes on the important day of her speech to a nightmare in which everything goes wrong. The nightmare turns out to be not very different from what actually happens. Dad promises to try and make the speech but asks Roxy to take Jane to the station to catch the train to New York. After catching the train with Jane, Roxy gets them both thrown off because she has no ticket. They unwittingly land in the middle of what appears to be a drug deal, but which is in fact the handing over of a microchip containing pirated music. This microchip is worth millions of dollars to the owner of a Chinese nail salon who makes illegal CD’s and DVD’S. The dealer slips it into Roxy’s bag which results in Bernie, the Chinese nail salon’s adopted son, chasing the girls all over New York. Roxy is also being ruthlessly pursued by Max Lomax, official truant officer, who’s determined to catch her. The pursuits result in much mayhem and unfortunate disasters for the girls. Jane finally arrives at the auditorium to deliver her speech but is too late. However all is not lost as Roxy has held the fort for her. Use of violenceResearch shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another. Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world. There is some violence in this movie but all set in a comic context:
Material that may scare childrenUnder eight Children under eight are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations, the death of a parent or child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters. Some of the above mentioned scenes may be disturbing to children under the age of eight. In addition:
Over the age of eight Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult. Most children over the age of eight would not be scared by this movie. Product placementResearch shows that children, particularly children under the age of eight, are vulnerable to product placement in movies. Even if the child doesn’t recall seeing a particular brand in the movie, they will choose that brand in preference to another, if they have just seen it used or displayed in a movie. This effect may be exacerbated if the product is highlighted as part of the story or if an actor or character they admire is seen to endorse or enjoy the product. There were no specific product placements. However, as the movie was set in New York, many brands, McDonalds in particular, were visible at various stages of the movie. Sexual referencesThere were no sexual references in this movie. Nudity and sexual activityThere was no sexual activity in this movie. While there was no actual nudity, the girls do run around New York wearing only towels. Use of substancesThere is only one scene involving alcohol, where a drunk spills his drink all over Jane. Coarse languageThere is no coarse language in this movie. The movie's messageThere is not really any take home message in this movie which has models some very dubious behaviours. The fact that the girls are rewarded for lying and cheating is questionable. Values parents may wish to encourage include:
Values parents may wish to discourage include:
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