Severe
47 of 93 found this severe
A picture of a topless woman is briefly shown on a jail cell door. Pictures of scantily-clad women appear on the cell walls in the background.
Begbie steals a bag of Viagra from a refrigerator and walks into a men's pub room to take a Viagra pill. An erection on his pants is later briefly shown.
Veronika is a prostitute.
A man lies in bed with a woman who emerges from under the blanket, presumably after giving oral sex.
Veronika is briefly shown topless in one scene. Renton's buttocks are shown in one scene.
A man forces Simon and Renton to remove all their clothes and run naked to a farm. There is full-frontal nudity from a distance. Simon and Renton are later shown wearing towels.
Simulated sexual activity is shown multiple times, but it is brief every time.
The film contains a few scenes that feature hidden-camera recordings of sexual activity between a prostitute and her clients, as seen from a laptop screen. In these recordings, the woman is seen wearing a strap-on dildo, with some of the clients' genitalia seen.
One of the stronger scenes shows her walking towards a man with her strapped-on dildo, before she positions herself behind the man and is seen to thrust against the man from the back.
Moderate
40 of 52 found this moderate
A character attempts suicide with a plastic bag over his head, then vomits inside the bag.
A man's arm is slashed with a knife; blood is shown.
This movie is a bit more violent than the original.
A man gets stabbed in the stomach with a long metal poker; a small amount of blood is shown.
A violent, albeit comical, fight that involves beating with a pool cue, throwing beer bottles, punching, and a character getting knocked unconscious by a stationary table.
Many scenes where characters are knocked out with punches to the face; no blood is shown.
Severe
44 of 56 found this severe
150 uses of "fuck," 26 uses of "cunt," and 50 uses of "shit".
Severe
46 of 57 found this severe
A weed farm is briefly shown twice in one scene.
The lead characters are recovering addicts that later fall back on abusing heroin.
Some drinking. During a comical fight, a character is waterboarded with a beer dispenser.
Heroin use isn't as frequent in this movie as it was in the original.
Drug taking sequences are shown, but instructive details of illegal drug use are not. The film also does not promote or encourage drug and substance abuse in any fashion.
The film contains frequent depictions of characters abusing drugs, including cutting and snorting cocaine, tying their arms with tourniquets and injecting the drug into their veins.
Though the scenes of drug use are frequent, the film does not promote nor glamorize drug consumption, as it depicts the negative consequences on the characters' lives and personal relationships.
Moderate
31 of 49 found this moderate
The scene where Spud attempts suicide by plastic bag suffocation is upsetting.
This film is a dark comedy, but since the lead characters are struggling in middle age, it's depressing.
This movie isn't as heavy as the first one.