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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violent content and drug material
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • No real sex or nudity in the film, just somewhat crude references.
  • A few non-graphic sexual references but no nudity or sexual scenes.
  • A quick kiss at the end between an actor and his date.
  • A magazine is seen and the women in it are topless.

Violence & Gore

  • Jeff chases after a bat and takes a giant bite into the animal. We hear a crunching sound and we see blood all around his mouth.
  • The violence is occasionally bloody and over exaggerated but it's played for comedy and isn't intense or frightening.
  • The opening scene of the movie is probably the most violent.
  • Offscreen, Tugg kills a panda then proceeds to wear its skin as camouflage. This scene is much less graphic than the scenes involving human violence, probably deliberately.
  • Multiple shootouts occur between several characters, some are real bullets others are blanks (in the context of the film).
  • Halfsquat, a child, stabs Tugg and is consequently thrown off a bridge by Tugg.
  • This is a satire and all the violence is taken very lightly or presented in a comical and slapstick fashion. The "serious" segments aren't so graphic.

Profanity

  • 92 uses of "fuck", 19 uses of "ass", "shit", and "damn" each. "Cock is said twice" along with "tits," "God damn", "cocksucker", and "Jesus." "Bullshit" is said 4 times. Several uses of "pussy".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • One of the main characters is angry because a bird robbed his "jelly beans", which instead of being those candy, those are drugs
  • Jeff finds a giant pile of heroin, takes two handfuls of it and shoves them into two drug processors faces. They then pass out and he says that they will wake up in sixteen hours.
  • Several characters are seen smoking cigars and cigarettes, including an underage child.
  • The main antagonists led (once again) by a young boy, are drug processors.
  • Characters talk about the use of drugs.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The facetious portrayal, discussion, and treatment of people with intellectual disabilities and mental illness may be very upsetting to sensitive viewers.
  • Although the war scenes are quite intense, they are all played for laughs, taking most of the intensity and seriousness out of them.
  • The opening battle scene can be intense for some viewers.
  • Some animal lovers may find the panda scene disturbing, but the violence in this scene is presented in a more cartoonish fashion than the rest of the movie.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A large sign on a building says "Deph Nhut" ("deep nut"). Some may not understand this. Women wearing bikinis are in sensual positions as a drink is poured over a woman's body in the close background.
  • A character asks to be tied to a tree as a means of overcoming his drug withdrawals. As the angle switches from him in his underwear to the other characters in the foreground, his belly and down can be seen as well as his bulgy underwear in the background a few times.
  • Numerous bare breasts on a magazine.

Violence & Gore

  • A character steps on a landmine and is blown to bits in a slightly gory explosion. His severed head is prominently featured and played with like a toy. (All is done for comedic effect.)
  • In this same fake war movie, a man suffers a disemboweling by a bayonet, though he does not act nearly as wounded as the visual effects suggest, and appears to survive as though it's a minor flesh wound, even attempting to put his insides back into his body later. This is done satirically.
  • Tugg is shown with somewhat fake looking severed hands.

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