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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for sequences of strong violence and intense action, partial nudity and some strong language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A Partial Nudity Warning is Rated for the entirety of the movie, inclusive of the humanoid children.

Violence & Gore

  • Several strong extended battle scenes with guns, knives, bows and arrows, spears with bloody detail being minimal. People are crushed, thrown, and blown up
  • Children are held at threat throughout the film.
  • A man has his arm sliced off by the wire of a harpoon gun. Not very bloody, but it is shown onscreen in detail
  • An extended hunting scene sees a large animal killed. Said large animal is part of a race with human-like intelligence which is very close to the Metkayina, which makes it especially sad.
  • Violence includes: Killing and hunting animals, shooting, explosions and knife fights.
  • In an early scene, a wave of exhaust from spaceships scorches several trees. This is intense.
  • Some sky people are shot through the chest with arrows.
  • Loak starts a fight with some Metkayina children who tease Kiri.
  • Sky people kill a whale-like creature with bombs then drill into its brain and extract a yellow substance that stops human aging.

Profanity

  • Milder terms including 'bitch', 'shit', 'crap', 'son of a bitch', 'arsehole', 'ass', 'bastard', 'bloody', 'bugger', 'damn', 'butt', 'hell' and 'Jesus'.
  • One Na'vi child raises his middle fingers at Quaritch's clone.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Scenes of threat include characters being held at knife or gun point, evading gunfire and explosions, almost drowning in a sinking vessel, and being pursued by large monsters.
  • Kiri has a seizure under water while connected to a spirit tree, and it's said if it happens again she could die.
  • Tuk, a very young child, talks about wanting to go home.
  • Spider is placed in a mind-reading device and interrogated about Jake Sully's whereabouts. The device has panels that flash green light as they spin around him, and he screams "I don't know!" repeatedly.
  • The Recombinanta shoot a flying fish-like creature to show off what guns can do.
  • A village is burned with flamethrowers.
  • Spider has issues due to his father being the villainous Quaritch.
  • One Metkayina girl mourns the death of one whale-like creature and her baby, saying she was her spirit sister.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Jake Sully chokes the Quaritch clone unconscious and lets him sink to the bottom of the ocean, but Spider rescues him.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In one scene, Neytiri goes completely berserk upon her son Neteyam's death, brutally murdering several humans and Recombinants in the process. This is pretty intense.
  • After Loak starts a fight with Metkayina children, they trick him into going into a dangerous part of the ocean, then abandon him. He is chased by a scary shark-like creature but ultimately rescued by a whale-like creature called a Tukun. After he returns, the Metkayina chief refuses to believe the children would lead Loak to the area, and Loak claims it was all his fault. This scene is intense.
  • In the film's final act, Jake Sully and his family are trapped in a sinking ship with fire.

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