My 12-year-old son and I saw it today. We both thought it was excellent. Here’s my synopsis: two kids from the flyover beat the spiritually and morally bankrupt cosmopolitan elites at their own game, and strike a blow for freedom.
My son and I had a good discussion over pizza afterward. We talked about freedom, decency, courage, and human dignity, and how the various characters represented, or failed to represent, those things.
There is no sexual content. The romance between the hero and heroine is distinctly old-fashioned. He had loved her from afar since they were children, and was prepared to sacrifice himself for her.
It’s too bad this movie didn’t come out before the Iraq war. Then maybe the kids from flyover, the ones who were sent in to be killed and maimed, would’ve understand how their underclass status made them easy victims of manipulation by the aristocratic class, and would’ve stood up like the heroine of Hunger Games and struck a blow for freedom against the chickenhawk one percenters.