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Heavy Metal
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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Every adult woman featured in film is topless at one point. Four animated scenes of sex with clear nudity. Male genitalia featured as well, briefly.

Violence & Gore

Plenty of animated blood & gore.People get shot, stabbed, beaten, beheaded, etc. Most human characters bleed red blood while others bleed green blood. Several scenes of people vaporized and melted into bones and gore.

Profanity

2 uses of "fuck" and other stronger to mild profanities are used in the film.

Two aliens snort some white powder and then get stoned. Reference to drugs name unknown.

Characters are seen drinking alcohol in a bar

Characters are seen smoking cigarettes and one character smokes a cigar

Graphic animation, people melting away and such.

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Certification:
Canada:R (Nova Scotia) / Iceland:12 / Italy:VM14 / South Africa:13LS / Brazil:18 / Australia:MA (video rating) / Australia:M (original rating) / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Canada:AA (Ontario) / Canada:PA (Manitoba) / Finland:K-16 / New Zealand:R16 / Sweden:15 / UK:15 / USA:R / West Germany:16

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