TRON: ARES

Name: TRON: ARES
Item: TRON: ARES
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"Life Matters"

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

TRON: ARES stars Jared Leto in the title role. An evil computer mogul, Julian Dillinger, sends his digital soldier, Ares, into the real world to steal a powerful computer code from the mogul’s business rival, Eve Kim. Julian wants to sell armies of digital soldiers and war machines. He needs the computer code to make his machines last longer. However, Eve wants to use the code to mass produce food and medicine. Ares relentlessly pursues Eve, but, as he interacts with her and experiences the real world, he begins to question his allegiance to Julian, his flawed creator.

TRON: ARES is an exciting, superlative science fiction thriller about power and control, with a strong pro-life message. It has lots of action and great special effects, along with strong humor and heart. The movie’s pro-life message is powerful and compelling. However, TRON: ARES has strong action violence, which includes scary war machines. The cruel villain wants to kill his business rival, but the hero rebels. TRON: ARES also has some foul language, including a strong profanity. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong moral, pro-life worldview with a fight between good and evil where the villain wants to create digital soldiers and war machines for the highest bidder;

Foul Language:

Four obscenities (one “s” word, two “h” words and one “d” word), one GD profanity and 11 light profanities (mostly OMG as people react to events, situation, scares);

Violence:

Strong and light action violence such as large flying war machine with two legs shoots down jets as the machine tries to capture the heroine, jets explode, war machines explode, soldiers and machines fire lasers, soldiers from the computer world ride digital, light beam motorcycles as they chase heroine, motorcycle and vehicle crashes, a laser wall created by motorcycles cuts a police car in two, heroine knocked unconscious, hero soldiers fights an evil soldier, evil soldier stabs a character;

Sex:

No sex, but there’s a potential romance;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Villain tries to steal new high tech code from his rival because she discovered it first.

More Detail:

TRON: ARES stars Jared Leto as a living computer program turned soldier whose maker orders him to steal a powerful computer code from the maker’s business rival in the real world. TRON: ARES is an exciting, superlative science fiction thriller about power and control, with a strong pro-life message, but there are some scary war machines from the computer world that wreak havoc in the real world and some foul language, including a strong profanity.

The movie opens with computer mogul Julian Dillinger showing investors how he can create digital war machines and unlimited digital soldiers to wage war in the real world. However, he doesn’t tell them that the digital war machines and soldiers can only live for 29 minutes in the real world before they disintegrate.

Meanwhile, Eve Kim, the head of ENCOM, Julian’s business rival, is trying to create lasting digital food and medicines. She’s searching for the “permanent life code” created by ENCOM’s former CEO, Kevin Flynn, which can make digital creations last for more than 29 minutes.

Eve happens to find the code in one of Kevin’s hidden caches in the mountains. She downloads the code to take it back to ENCOM headquarters and starts making the digital food and medicines for the while world.

However, Julian learns Eve has the code. So, he sends the master control program, Ares, into the real world to steal the code from Eve. Ares relentlessly pursues Eve, but, as he interacts with her and experiences the realm world, he begins to question his allegiance to Julian, his flawed creator.

The themes in TRON: ARES harken back to such seminal stories in pop culture as PINOCCHIO and FRANKENSTEIN. The title character is overtly compared to Pinocchio at one point in the movie. The creature in FRANKENSTEIN comes to loathe his flawed creator, who has rejected him. Ares rebels against the cruelty of his maker, Julian, who orders Ares to kill Eve. Ares has developed an appreciation and respect for life and disobeys his maker.

MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children for the movie’s action violence, which includes scary war machines, and some foul language, which includes a strong profanity.

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