![]() ![]() A man has a spike driven through his foot. Violence: A character crashes over the side of the road and must be rescued in a daring mission. Why is San Andreas rated PG-13? San Andreas is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense disaster action and mayhem throughout, and brief strong language. Starring Alexandra Daddario, Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino. It’s everything you’d expect from a good old-fashioned disaster movie where thousands may die, but the core group always prevails-thanks to a little ingenuity and a whole lot of perseverance. Characters fall to their deaths, are engulfed in flames and drown in a huge tsunami that floods the city. However the lack of blood (except for one gory depiction of glass impaled in a man’s leg) doesn’t mean this production isn’t full of devastation as buildings tumble, explode and rain debris down on people in the street. There probably isn’t more than a ketchup bottle’s worth of blood effects in this entire movie! Unfortunately the same can’t be said about profanities, which include one strong sexual expletive from an irate mother. ![]() Thanks to special effects, Mother Nature’s acts looks remarkably convincing-though extremely sanitized. Kids and dogs on the other hand are usually safe. Unfortunately rich businessmen are a sure fire target for falling objects. Like all good disaster movies, the fun (if you can call it that), is guessing who will be the first to go. Yet in spite of the group’s intense efforts even he is gobsmacked by the precision with which the program works when the tremors unleash their power. Lawrence (Paul Giamatti) is the frumpy, bespectacled professor who heads the project. The third group is a collection of seismologists at Cal Tech who have been developing a computer program to predict earthquakes. This young trio tries to make their way to the highest point they can find in the city and send out a signal to Ray. Turning northward, Ray and Emma set off to find their teen and her two friends, brothers Ollie and Ben (Art Parkinson and Hugo Johnstone-Burt). This one is from their daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario) who is sandwiched between two heavy cement slabs in a parking garage in the core of San Francisco. Safely inside the hovering helicopter, the pair gets another call. Flying to her location, he snatches Emma from the rooftop just as the structure implodes. Then, mid-flight, he gets a call from his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino) because she is caught on the top floor of a teetering building in Los Angles. ![]() Ray (Dwayne Johnson) is a burly rescue-chopper pilot pulled into action after the dam breaks. Now, true to form, San Andreas will have audiences shaking in their seats as a swarm of tectonic plate movement destroys everything from the Hoover Dam to the downtowns of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since then films such as Dante’s Peak, and The Day After Tomorrow and The Core have kept the genre alive. But they experienced a hey-day in the 1970s with the likes of Towering Inferno, Airportand The Poseidon Adventure. This film is a classic disaster movie with a huge cast of characters that are crushed, drowned or otherwise killed in a massive earthquake that shakes up the entire western coastline.ĭisaster movies have always had a certain appeal to audiences. But they might have to do some damage control after the release of San Andreas. ![]() California’s tourism board has some big names encouraging visitors to come to the state. ![]()
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