Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for sequences of adventure violence, and some suggestive conten
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A young man looks longingly at a woman's ankles when she, obliviously, reveals them while jumping off a ship. He turns to his partner and excitingly says: "I saw her ankles!"
  • When talking to Henry, Jack describes Will as a 'cursed eunuch' (though Henry's existence proves that Will isn't a eunuch).
  • There is a figurehead statue with nothing covering breasts, there is also the black pearl that appears again with both women statues nude fully without nipples are showing.
  • Jack refers to Elizabeth as having 'two of those...' but Henry interrupts him before he can finish the sentence.
  • In his first scene Jack Sparrow is seen drunk and asleep in a safe, a woman inside with him. Her husband is there and, enraged, orders the soldiers to shoot Jack dead. The word "trollop" is used.
  • Pirates mistake the word "horologist" and think that it applies to whores (the word itself is never used). They continue to make veiled references to this.
  • After Carina prepares to swim taking off her dress to her 18th-century underwear and dives into the water, Henry excitingly tells Jack that he "saw her ankles". Jack then replies that he "would have seen a lot more if he'd kept his cake-hole shut". The word "knickers" is used.
  • Jack is seen without his pants.

Violence & Gore

  • Intense Sword fighting throughout just like the other films.
  • A reference to disembowelment.
  • Many scenes involving epic, intense action, fighting and destruction.
  • Jack is seen about to be executed by guillotine; you can see the red blood on the blade, and there is a brief shot of a couple of decapitated heads in a basket, realistic-looking yet not bloody. It is, however, a fairly humorous scene.
  • Salazar and his crew are seen mercilessly killing pirates and English military men many times throughout the film. Their "deaths" in the flashback scene are rather intense.
  • Zombie-like ghost sharks are first shown as grotesquely rotten corpses, flies swarming around them.

Profanity

  • In Salazar's flashback, Jack's boat is named 'Wicked Wench'. Only appears for a frame.
  • None too crude, a few instances of mild British profanity: 2 uses of "bugger" and 1 "piss off". Plus maybe one or two "bloody", "damn", "hell" and the like.
  • The word "horologist" is mistaken as "whore", and "astronomer" as something to do with donkeys, implying a few uses of "ass". This is played for laughs and the words themselves are never used.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Jack's uncle tells a joke about a skeleton ordering a drink in a bar.
  • Jack Sparrow is seen drinking rum, and is clearly drunk throughout the film, as he is in most scenes in the last four films (perhaps even more drunk than before).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The statue on the bow of Salazar's ship comes to live and attacks Jack. May be frightening to some.
  • A bucket of severed human heads is shown beneath a guillotine, which are later shown on the ground.
  • 12+ Moderate Scary Scenes and Violence. 12A.
  • Several intense action scenes involving destruction and fighting, many deaths.
  • Captain Salazar is possibly the most frightening, intimidating villain in the entire film series, and his men are also scary-looking, some of them missing various body parts, and the ghost sharks are fairly grotesque and could be pretty scary.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • There is a scene in which Henry is holding Carina up to prevent her from hanging and his hand is implied to be under her dress. He says 'We are allies from now on' and she replies along the lines of 'considering where your left hand is, we're more than that'. The word 'stern' is used as slang for where Henry's hand is placed.
  • Carina is revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of Barbossa.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Towards the ending of the film, a main character of the film, Captain Barbossa, sacrifices himself to kill the main villain of the film. In the process, Barbossa is shown falling to his death as we hear dramatic music over the background. This scene is very emotional, dramatic and intense.
  • In the post-credits scene, Will and Elizabeth sleep in their bed together, when their room is entered and raided by a mysterious silhouette. The steps are heard and the silhouette is none other than Davy Jones himself, who has somehow resurrected and is now seeking revenge. When Jones raises his clawed arm, Will awakens and finds that the room is empty. Assuming Jones' appearance to be a nightmare, Will goes back to sleep, oblivious to the presence of a trace of wet barnacles on the floor amid a puddle of seawater, revealing it was no dream and Davy Jones is really alive. This scene is very startling and frightening.
  • when the pirates are captured, Gibbs is seen pulling another pirate's toenail off. he is screaming in pain. is done for humor, but can be quite shocking for viewers of all age

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