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(2011)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language including sexual references, and some drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Crude sex references. Fornicate is mentioned twice.
  • Very brief 1 second image of sex between 2 humanoid like aliens.
  • Scene with women wearing very little coverage (dressed as Princess Leia) in the first couple of minutes of the movie, at Comic-Con. This takes about 10 seconds. Thighs, side boobs etc visible.
  • One of the main characters show a comic cover with the drawing of a green woman with very revealing outfit ( just nipples covered on upper body for example). Camera really zooms in on it and the characters talk about it.
  • The second time a comic cover with nudity is shown, one of the characters asks if it is porn? They also make very specific comments about the woman on the coverage.
  • Woman grabs man's crotch for several seconds.
  • Paul is disguised as a statue at a comic book store to avoid getting caught by an agent who finds out that he's real by touching Paul's genitalia off screen.
  • Paul puts 2 bagels on his fingers as the main characters are talking about aliens probing them.
  • A man and woman kiss twice, not counting an interrupted attempt.
  • About midway, a woman places a man's hand on her (clothed) breast.
  • An alien stands on an RV dashboard, and moons people ahead of him.
  • Several men ask an alien if he is going to probe them with fingers or metal probes; the alien says this is a myth

Violence & Gore

  • Only real violent scene in the film is when a man is shot in the leg and blood sprays everywhere. Played for laughs
  • A man is shot in the chest with a shotgun. A giant wound appears on his chest and a large amount of blood pours from it. However, he is revived by an alien who takes the wound, which almost immediately closes up.
  • An alien revives a bird that died from a windshield impact, and then eats it and coughs up feathers.
  • The bottom of a flying alien vessel falls onto a dog offscreen, we hear a sound and later we hear that the dog died.
  • Several men chase various vehicles on deserted highways and swerve and shoot out windshields and side windows; no one is hurt.
  • A man shoots a man through the window of his truck and we later see that the man's Bible stopped the bullet.
  • A man fires a gun through a window of a house where the gas burner is on, it explodes and the property is in flames (we see the man with a swollen, charred head and face).
  • Several men point guns at one another and shout throughout the film, but do not shoot.
  • A man keeps a shotgun at home and shoots it several times at intruders on his property and at an RV on the road; he doesn't hit anyone.
  • Several men slap one another in the face while shouting strings of profanity, but are unharmed; they often receive blows to the groin without permanent harm.
  • A woman kicks the groin of a man and he doubles over in pain and shouts.
  • A man is struck in the groin by a flying object and later by a child kicking him; he doubles over and groans.
  • An alien shape-shifts several times, becoming invisible, and appears out of nowhere to scare several people.
  • An alien performs mind melds, via fingers to the head, with half a dozen people; they each faint and two of the people argue with the alien loudly before and after they wake up (about God and evolution).
  • An alien heals a woman's milky, blind eye after he rubs his hands together and touches it (his eye becomes milky as hers clears and then his clears and she can see); they argue about healing and he ends the argument with a declaration that healing is a natural part of evolution.
  • A car with a man inside drives off a tall bridge and we see a fireball rise above the railing.

Profanity

  • There is a drawing with the f word on it and an alien doing the middle finger.
  • 1 use of junk too
  • A woman uses homophobic language to describe the two lead protagonists in the unrated version.
  • Somewhere near 56 uses of "fuck", 45 uses of "shit", 30 uses of "ass". Moderate strong language throughout.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some references to weed and joints
  • A space alien and a woman share a marijuana cigarette around a campfire and drink beer from bottles with two other people. Three men drink beer in a trailer park.
  • A space alien smokes 3 cigarettes and a man smokes 1 cigarette.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is an upsetting scene near the end.
  • The entire film is comedic in effect, however, and not upsetting or scary.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • An unseen force knocks Paul onto his back, apparently dead.

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