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- Sex & Nudity (3)
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- Profanity (4)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (2)
- Spoilers (2)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- None. This is a G-rated picture.
- A girl hugs a boy tightly and rubs her face against his
Violence & Gore
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- A woman drives her son along the highway at the edge of the sea during a storm; she drives recklessly, the car skids to a stop and she and her little boy exit, but the wind blows the boy over the rail and toward the sea (he is caught).
- A mother and small boy in a car nearly run head-on into a van on a narrow winding road.
- A five-year-old boy uses matches to light a candle three times and burns his finger once and yells "Ouch!"
- A mother leaves her 5-year-old son and his same-aged female playmate home alone late at night and the boy becomes afraid when the mom does not return.
- A boy and girl (both 5 years old) walk through a long, dark tunnel and halfway through she begins to turn into a fish and collapses; the boy cries, and carries her out to the shoreline, and he dunks her in the water to revive her (she awakens).
- Several short scenes feature family arguments:
- A husband and his wife argue over the phone and by signal beacon, and she slams the phone down and later slams a pot of greens into a sink.
- A girl-fish argues several times with her human father about living on land and he locks her in a bubble; she escapes, and this is repeated three times.
- An old woman in a nursing home screams when a little boy shows her a goldfish with the face of a little girl; the old woman screams that it is bad luck and the fish must go back to the sea.
- Several scenes depict dark-blue, big-eyed water blobs that grumble:
- They lap up onto a shoreline and snatch back a girl-fish after she tries to swim away, they splash up onto the shore to drive back a little boy, who looks frightened, and they search for the girl-fish several times, they grumble and gather together to form a wall to lift a man up and onto an island but fail and fall back into the sea, and in a few other scenes they swim pass ships at sea and shake them.
- Huge sea-blue fish escape from an underwater aquarium and rise to the surface to become waves that churn up a typhoon and rain; a small girl runs along their backs, but is not injured.
- In one scene the girl rubs her head on a baby's forehead to heal it, leaving faint red ovals on his forehead and cheeks. During the healing, her fingers and toes change from 5 digits to 3 fingers and toes on each limb; afterward, she has 5 digits on each limb again.
- A small fish licks a drop of blood we see on a boy's thumb, instantly healing a small cut we cannot see.
- Several schools of giant fish accidentally break though the door of a vault and are caught in a potion in a stone basin that causes the fish to fly upward.
- Two shore scenes feature hundreds of insects in the foreground.
Profanity
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- A few uses of Baka, which means idiot.
- None. This is a G-rated picture.
- 17 mild obscenities ("bug off!"), 3 stereotypical comments about humans as naturally destructive, 3 religious exclamations.
- Name-calling (freak show, weird, human, ugly.)
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A character opens a beer can which overflows. Alcohol is not consumed.
- A male human-looking character under the sea drinks elixirs from four tall bottles and from a fifth he pours a glowing golden potion and when he drinks the last drops from the bottle, he states, "I can feel the power of it down into my DNA."
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- There's little violence, although a few scenes during and after a climactic storm may be intense.
- Some scenes in which characters seem to be missing might also be upsetting.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- In the ending of the movie, Sosuke kisses Ponyo inside of a bubble, where she transforms into a human again.
Violence & Gore
- Early on, a young boy smashes a glass jar with a rock, to free a trapped fish.
