Parents Guide for
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) More at IMDbPro »

Note: The number at the beginning of each section refers to how explicit that aspect of the film is on a scale of 1-10. The fraction at the end of the Frightening/Intense Scenes category is the total sum of all the sections out of the highest sum possible (50) and therefore an approximation of how much explicit content of any kind is in the film

Rating: 4

Female buttocks are partly seen but its very dark, breasts are covered with strands of her hair for a period of about 5 seconds-again very unclear.

Male buttocks are seen a couple times.

Female in a car, breasts grow (clothed)

Rating: 8

Some sci-fi violence.

A woman drives up to the ordering window of a drive-thru restaurant; She pulls out a gun and shoots the man in the window (no blood is seen).

A man opens a door for a woman; She pushes him to the ground and shoots him repeatedly (off-screen).

A man is shot repeatedly with a pistol; A little bit of blood is seen.

A woman kills a man, off-screen; We then hear a whirring sound.

A man in a car rams his hand through the driver's seat and impales the driver; A small amount of blood is shown on the interior of the car. The man in the passenger seat is then killed.

In one scene, many people are slaughtered by robots. Not very much blood is seen.

A man puts a gun to his head, threatening to kill himself.

A woman is shot; She falls to the floor, with a wound in her chest. Another woman walks over to her, and touches the wound.

Rating: 5

Three uses of the f-word, some milder language such as "sh**".

Rating: 3

A man breaks into a veterinarian's office, looking for drugs to ease his pain. He finds a bottle of phenobarbital (a strong barbiturate) and takes some. Later, the empty bottle is discovered and he is told that he took a drug that is used to chemically neuter dogs, although phenobarbital is not actually used for that purpose.

Rating: 5

There are some tense moments. Including the nuclear bombs dropping

An idea of how accurate the TECE (below) is: 5-10 is a little-kid suitable, G-Rated type of film (i.e. Care Bears, Sleeping Beauty); 10-15 is going to be a little harsher, but not by much (i.e. The Incredibles); 15-20 could be pretty high up there (i.e. Indiana Jones), 20-25 is going to pretty darn adult (i.e. This); 25-30 is going to be a film most likely not suitable for anyone under 17(i.e. Braveheart); 30-40 is going to be an absolutely, positively adults-only film (i.e. Saving Private Ryan). 40 and up is pretty much high R / NC-17 (i.e. Pulp Fiction)

Total: 25/50