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MPAA Rated PG for some mild mischief
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Sex & Nudity

  • After losing a card game Annie is forced to jump into a lake naked. We only see her from the shoulders up and the knees down as several campers catcall her as she walks down the dock. At one point she is also seen fully nude but only in silhouette. Some girls take her clothes after she dives into the water.
  • Meredith partially unbuttons Nick's shirt while sitting on his lap.
  • Martin is briefly shown wearing speedo style swim trunks.
  • Meredith wears multiple "sexy" outfits.
  • An 11yo girl asks her divorced mother if working with wedding gowns every day doesn't make her think of getting married, or at least think of "the F-word". The interchange causes shock and surprise in her mother until the girl explains that the "F" is for "father."
  • A man is showing a woman a bottle in his wine collection and say, "I think my sister was conceived on a bottle of this."

Violence & Gore

  • Two young girls push a woman out onto a lake on an inflatable mattress while she's asleep. She wakes up in a panic the next morning and falls into the water. (Played for laughs).
  • After falling into a lake Meredith angerly storms up to Nick kicking over a coffee pot and yells at him.
  • Nick is bumped into a swimming pool.
  • A girl pierces another girl's ears by holding an apple slice behind her ear and poking a sharp needle all the way through. There is no blood, but a lot of screaming.
  • Two girls are in an intense fencing match and one of them falls into a horse trough.
  • A group of girls pull a prank on their rival cabin at a sumer camp they cover them with whipped cream, honey, fake spiders etc.
  • The girls are all panicking when they wake up. One girl has several water balloons dropped on her head as she gets out of bed. Two women then plan to inspect the cabin as the other girls try to stop them when they enter a bucket of chocolate syrup spills on their heads and they slip across the floor which is covered in cooking oil. One of them grabs onto a ceiling fan pull which covers them with feathers. This scene is meant to be comical, but it may be considered bullying to some viewers.
  • A lizard crawls into a woman's mouth. She screams and spits it out. This can be gross but mostly hilarious.

Profanity

  • "OMG" is exclaimed a number of times throughout (usually by the two sisters).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A stressed mother puts a cigarette in her mouth (she doesn't smoke it).
  • A mother walks down Abbey Road with her daughter smoking a cigarette. (Likely to mimic Paul McCartney on the cover of the Abbey Road Album.)
  • A girl says her grandfather smells like pipe tobacco
  • A girl says that her grandfather smells of pipe tobacco.
  • A man drinks a martini.
  • Some adults drink wine throughout the film.
  • Two women have a drink together at a bar.
  • An 11-year-old girl takes a sip of wine (legal in England) and describes its taste. In a later scene, she falls completely off her chair while trying to lean over and see something. When her mother asks if she's all right, the child jokes "I had one sip too many, I guess!"
  • A mother becomes intoxicated on a plane, makes references to vodka. She stumbles around drunk in a hotel lobby, crashing into people. Her daughter witnesses this and alerts her nanny that her mother has only had one glass of wine in her entire life, up until now.
  • Nick Parker is the owner of a wine brand and vineyard, making wine have various appearances throughout the movie.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Meredith has a plan to ship the twins off to boarding school and is very rude and condescending towards them
  • A young girl pierces another young girl's ears with an apple wedge and a sharp needle. A match is lit, and the flame is placed against the end of the needle before the procedure is done. No blood is shown, however there is a shot of the needle visibly being placed into the girl's ear lobe, and there is a lot of screaming.
  • During a camping trip, two young girls drag a sleeping woman to a lake, while still on her mattress. They push the mattress into the lake, with her still asleep on it. She wakes up the next morning screaming and falls into the lake. It is intended to be funny, however.

Spoilers

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Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Not only is the girls' father revealed to be a wine maker, he also collects wine.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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