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Strange Wilderness | 2008 | R | - 7.6.10

In order to save his failing nature show, the son of a famous nature show host assembles a crew of misfits to track down and film Bigfoot. With Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Ashley Scott, Justin Long, Ernest Borgnine, Joe Don Baker, Harry Hamlin, Robert Patrick and Peter Dante. Directed by Fred Wolf. [1:27]

SEX/NUDITY 7 - A turkey bites a man's groin, swallowing his penis (we see a turkey attached to the man's crotch, and the man's bare bottom is shown); a woman strokes the turkey's neck, while men make jokes about manual stimulation, a doctor comments on the man's erection, a man injects Demerol through the turkey's neck into the man's penis and we are shown the man's penis stretched out to comically impossible length. We see a man's deformed and scarred penis and scrotum.
 A man without pants (his bare buttocks are visible) is shown having sex with a woman from behind, and he is shown thrusting.
 Five topless women in bikini bottoms jump up and down, laughing (we see their bare breasts), and a woman takes her shirt off (her bare breasts are shown). A topless woman in panties (her bare breasts are visible from the side) sits on the back of a man wearing underwear.
 A man spray-paints a picture of a penis on a wall and then simulates masturbation on the picture.
 A man slaps a man's crotch while wearing a toy buzzer in several scenes. Men and women dance suggestively, rubbing against each other.
 A lion is shown having sex with a lioness, while two men joke about it. A monkey shows its rear end to the camera and then places it near a man's face.
 A man makes a crude joke implying that he will have sex with a woman; she overhears and makes several comments implying that he is gay. A woman suggests that she had sex in exchange for an item. Men and a woman make several suggestive jokes about a man named Dick. A man makes a joke implying that two other men enjoy performing sex acts on each other. A man comments on the size of a monkey's genitalia.

VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - A turkey bites a man's groin, swallowing his penis (we see a turkey attached to the man's crotch, and the man screams in pain, and runs around); a man injects Demerol through the turkey's neck into the man's penis, people discuss decapitating the turkey, several people pull forcefully on the turkey, and we are shown the man's penis stretched out to comically impossible length, while he screams in pain
 An alligator attacks a man (we hear screams and see blood in the water) and it is later stated that the man died.
 A man in a seal costume is attacked by a shark (we see the man struggling in the water and screaming, and there's blood in the water); he survives.
 We are shown a man on fire, and he's screaming in pain. We see a man with no legs (there is some blood around) his torso. We see a pair of dismembered legs; there's no blood. We see a man's scarred torso.
 We see the corpse of a man-like creature with bleeding gunshot wounds, hanging from a rope. We see several corpses with arrows in them (there is a little blood around the wounds).
 A man activates the hydraulics in his car, ramming the hood into the faces of two men (the men are shown missing several front teeth, with blood coming out of their mouths).
 A man standing in water screams in pain, is dragged under the water and other men talk about how he was eaten by piranhas. A shark bites a man's hand (we see no blood).
 Men and a woman fire guns at a man-like creature, and the creature falls (we see no blood).
 A man trips over a goat and falls down laughing, and an ostrich pecks a man on the back of the head. A man tackles another man (both men fall over a desk), and a man throws another man through a plate glass window. A woman hits a man in the head with a metal canister. A man slaps another man in the back of the head.
 Vultures eat the carcass of a zebra (we see them pulling bloody chunks of flesh from the carcass). We see a lion pounce on a gazelle.
 A man slaps a man's crotch while wearing a toy buzzer in several scenes. A woman stands up and hits her head in a doorframe. A man shoots a gun into the air.
 Several men and women scream at each other.
 A man tells a story about using a knife to cut open another man's head and putting a grenade in it. A man tells a story about having his scrotum cut open and then sewing it back together himself (we see the man's deformed and scarred penis and scrotum). A man tells a story about falling off a bike. A man tells a story about being burnt on a car engine. Men discuss whether or not to punch a dying, dismembered man.
 We hear a man urinating. Men vomit into a shark's mouth.

LANGUAGE 10 - 67 F-words, 26 scatological terms, 23 anatomical terms, 8 mild obscenities, a derogatory term for Native South Americans, derogatory terms for the Chinese, derogatory terms for the Vietnamese, name-calling (stupid), making fun of how Mexicans speak, making fun of a disabled person, making fun of overbites, 7 religious profanities, 10 religious exclamations.

SUBSTANCE USE - Two men smoke marijuana (using water bongs and joints) frequently throughout the film, men and women are shown getting high on nitrous oxide, and many of the film's jokes are about marijuana. A man drinks throughout much of the film, men and women are shown drinking in an RV and at a campsite, and many jokes revolve around alcohol. A man talks about taking lithium and antidepressants.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Death of a parent, living up to expectations, theft, selling drugs, alcoholism, drug use, littering, treatment of animals.

MESSAGE - All you need for success is one good idea and the determination to act on it.

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