Guardians of the Galaxy 2

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Brilliant film but can't take kids to see it. So much bad language and one frightening scene where a man is formed from a skeleton layer by layer showing all the body parts

The concern about sexual references reminds me that when we took DS to see the first GOTG, the blacklight joke went right over his head - when we rewatched it just before going to see Vol. 2, he demanded tbat we explain it!

I saw it yesterday with my 8 year old who loved it but thought the first one was better. I don't get upset about bad language, they're just words and my daughter knows that there are words you don't say at school or at people so she's not a sweary child. The violence, while there are fairly high body counts, there's not a lot of gushing of blood which I find gratuitous. The sexual humour is mostly innuendo which goes over her head as much as it goes over Drax's.

I thought it was overly sentimental but really thought the CGI was awesome. I didn't go for the plot which was even thinner in this one than the last.

I enjoyed it - and am looking forward to the next one.

enb

How very dare you

The innuendo would not go over Draxs head!!!

He would just reach up his arm and grab it

That's my favourite line in the first one.

I don't think douchebag and fuck are "mild" language! the scenes with Yondu's arrows and the frozen in space were grim

My children dont know what a douchebag is

Neither do i to be honest

I dont remember hearing fuck either

Think there may have been 1 or 2 shits

We all loved it! (me, DH, kids 11 and 12). Loads of fun.

You are coming across as a rather delicate flower Scrabble. The Yondu's arrows bit was basically cartoonish tongue in cheek violence (Well it is a comic based film). The frozen in space scene was rather moving I thought. I had a bit of a cry and my future SiL Chris Pratt was excellent.

Oh the Yondu in space made me cry too. If you've seen the previous GoTG it isn't any worse than the bit when Peter saves Gamora when she's about to die in the atmosphere, so I wouldn't see that as a bad thing if the kids have already seen it. If by grim you mean sad, then yeah, I cried.

The arrow bit was high death count but again, Yondu did a similar thing at the end of the first film just with less people. Personally I found the bit when Ego reconstructs the most graphic

I didn't hear any fucks either.

My children are 13 and 11 months, 15 and 18

So i am obviously less bothered

I did have fairly sensitive children so they wouldnt have been allowed to watch a 12a unless i had watched it first

I wouldn't even have considered douchebag as swearing, none of the violence was graphic it was hardly blood & guts (apart from the monster at the start)

According to online review sites that discuss what kids should / shouldn't see the word Fuck is it used in the film at all

I absolutely loved it, but I will repeat what I said on another thread: 12a is a total fudge designed to get as many people through the door as possible. It relies on the fact that many parents won't check in detail what the content of the film is before going.

I don't think that a film that could have children as young as some parents will take should have the swearing or gore that this one does.

I think that there seems to have been a general loosening of the ratings and an assumption that children have been exposed to much f=more violence that many of them actually have - ratings can't be relied upon and i think it's cynical

The opening scene was one of the best I've seen

Notyoda, that's interesting, if you go back & watch some of the films that were out when we were kids I would say the ratings have got stricter.
Indiana jones was a PG as was ghostbusters. When you watch those films now I'm supriesed they are not 15 rating

nancy75

I am so surprised! You are right. And I just had a look: Jaws was PG originally but 12A for its re-release. I have been talking out of my arse...

I only know because I've watched lots of those films recently with Dd. I was cringing watching ghostbusters, it's not sexually explicit but there was enough to make me want to hide behind the sofa!!

I think there should be a 12 cinema rating. to reflect the fact that a cinema is a much more intense experience that at home. ,old gimmer.

I'd put G of the G into the 12a category.

12 category, if it existed

We've just got back from seeing this.

We absolutely bloody loved it! Better than the first one (and we loved that too). Even 13yr old cynical, typical teenager DS gave it 10/10.

Can't remember hearing the word 'fuck' in it though.

Only gripe is I thought the soundtrack/mixtape wasn't as good as the first one.

Enjoyed it very much, everyone stayed right to the end for the credit scenes. I'm interested to see how they incorporate them into the wider MCU as the characters are more cartoony than some of the avengers etc. Would love to see the Black Widows expression when she meets the raccoon!

Re the language, there's a bit where Nebula says to a group of people "you stupid fucks!" and Rocket replies "I'm not a fox!". So it's deniable, and if you saw the script it probably does say "fox" but I'd say it's there.

We loved it but I did think that the death count was really strong and relatively graphic in places - no decapitated limbs and gushing blood, but the avalanche of skulls, the arrow victims and the corpses shoved out of the airlock were quite grim - as was the (avoiding spoilers here) revelation about the past which changes our hero's relationship with a key antagonist.

Ah I see, I certainly didn't notice it as a swear word. Thought the second film was even better that nth first. Brilliant!