Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie | 2023 | PG | – 1.2.2

Why is “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie” rated PG? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “action, some thematic elements and brief smoking.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a couple of near kisses, many scenes of magical activity with glowing and flashing lights and swirling gems and characters including large fights between people with magical powers that cause property damage and threaten to harm people, several arguments, and some mild language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Animated tale about magical gems released by a Chinese sage (voiced by Gilbert Levy) that seek out a teen girl (voiced by Annouck Hautbois) and a teen boy (voiced by Benjamin Bollen) to evolve them into superheroes. The new heroes must conquer their own fears to save the world from anger and hate. Also with the voices of Antoine Tomé, Fanny Bloc, Jeanne Chartier, Marie Chevalot, Flora Kaprielan, Thierry Kazazian, Jessie Lambotte, Martial Le Minoux, Alexandre Nguyen, Marie Nonnenmacher, Franck Tordjman and Jon Allen. Directed by Jeremy Zag. [Running Time: 1:45]

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A teen boy and a teen girl almost kiss in a couple of scenes. A dozen close-up scenes show one hand of each teen grasping the hand of the other one.
► A teen girl and a teen boy appear in many scenes in skin-hugging catsuits.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie VIOLENCE/GORE 2

 – The film is filled with magical entities in the form of bright flying gemstones, tiny floating genies, ghosts, evil mimes, large magic moths and glowing butterflies, shooting fireballs, colorful waves of power, lightning shooting from people’s fingers, a gargoyle that comes alive, monstrous faces in the sky, giants (spider, apelike-horned creature, and octopus), and colorful light streams that enter people’s throats and chests.
► Several scenes show a teen girl stumbling through a street: she falls over furniture, bumps into people, runs through traffic and narrowly avoids being struck. A teen girl pushes a man out of the path of a bus. A teen girl falls off a balance beam, explodes a science beaker into puffy green smoke, and knocks over a book cart (no one is harmed). A teen boy on a skateboard bumps into many people on a sidewalk, no one falls but coffee spills on the street in one bump, and a drop of coffee splashes onto a teen girl’s shirt; she grabs another teen girl and shouts in her face, later threatening to strangle her.
► A man talks to a ghostly image of his dead wife and their son sees her on a stage, but she disappears both times. During end credits, a woman walks into a secret chamber and garden where we see the body of a deceased woman laid out on a bed of fresh flowers; she shows no signs of decay or decomposition.
► A ladybug flies into a teen girl’s mouth and swirls of gold sparkles fill the room while a tiny genie appears and the girl screams; the genie flies into her chest and the girl becomes clothed in a tight red catsuit with big black dots and is given a magic yo-yo and learns how to throw it to anchor it and swing by the string; the genie appears and takes her away as the scene cuts to the girl dangling in a chandelier, but the genie gets her down. A teen girl creates a pillar of sparkles that completely rebuilds a city in an instant.
► A huge bat-gargoyle comes alive outside a stained-glass window where it looks like a giant vampire, it grabs a teen boy dressed as a cat-hero and takes him away, a teen girl wearing a catsuit chases them, falling through three church bells that clang and she attaches her yo-yo string to the monster; the teens and monster speed out and down a river, and then through a train tunnel, the monster slides down the tracks as the teens escape and sparks erupt and from an aerial view, and we see a train hit the gargoyle head-on, creating a “bang” and a cloud of smoke as a man on TV yells “Gargoyle attack!”
► A man releases butterflies from the back of his body and takes in a swarm of moths, causing him to become clad in a black leather suit, hood and mask, and electric bolts shoot out of him as he laughs maniacally; thunder and lightning fill the screen and people run and scream in the streets and we later rubble, fires, and smoke for many blocks around. Three robbers blow up a safe in a bank and we see smoke and hear a thud; the safe is thrown out into the street as police cars with sirens and flashing lights pull up and the scene ends.
► A mime throws lightning from the end of a magic wand several times and another mime points his finger like a gun several times and we hear bullets fired. A wooden duck in a carnival game shatters as an invisible bullet hits it. Lightning causes a roller coaster to stop in an upside down position and later to release it as people scream. A baby changes into a huge creature made of balloons, that slams against a Ferris wheel and lightning causes the wheel full of screaming people to roll down a street and carousel horses to run in the street. A street explodes with a dull thud, smoke, and a small fire as people run and scream. A mime tells a teen girl, “I’ll squish ya’ like a bug.” A mime throws playing cards like ninja stars and another mime shoots his gun-finger (no one is struck). A Ferris wheel comes to rest against the Louvre pyramid. A teen boy slams against a Ferris wheel car, but is not hurt. A balloon creature springs a leak, falls and explodes (we don’t see any injuries).
► A teen boy wearing a catsuit climbs the Eiffel Tower and it begins to crumble and fistfights a man wearing a black leather suit and mask at the top of the tower; the man levitates the boy and a girl wearing a catsuit and then slams them both to the deck of the tower; the boy falls into the river below and the girl dives in to rescue him and the man transforms and begins to cry, going below to talk to the boy as the ghost of the man’s wife hugs him from behind and butterflies fill the screen. A museum guard shrieks at shadows in the museum. A man uses magic to slam a ticket window shutter on the hands of a screaming clerk.
► A teen girl and a teen boy argue in many scenes, sometimes shouting and name-calling. A man and his teen son argue in one scene and fistfight in another scene, although no one is injured. A teen girl shouts at and berates another teen girl in school and in public many times. A man cries because his girlfriend refused to marry him. A man cries because he physically fought with his own teen son.
► A teen boy and a teen girl play-fight across rooftops and the boy jumps onto a cloud and floats away; later they dive off a roof and dance across chimneys. A teen girl dances in the sky as small gold fireballs or comets shoot around her.
► A small black cat-genie emits loud burps and flatulence accompanied by green smoke six times. A cat hisses loudly at a teen boy.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie LANGUAGE 2

 – 1 mild scatological term, anatomical term, name-calling (magnet for catastrophe, crazies, crazy-clumsy, weird, insane, loony bin, nuts, selfish, baker-girl, rat’s nest, sidekick, strange little fairy, fleabag, fur balls, watermelon), exclamations (silence, shhh, oh my gosh, I swear, ewww, wow, whoa), 1 religious exclamation (oh my God). | profanity glossary |

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie SUBSTANCE USE

 – None.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Magic, legends, good vs. evil, death, loss, grief, belief, dreams, self-confidence, teamwork, anger, hate, fear, revenge, loneliness, courage, power, love, family.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie MESSAGE

 – Love is the only thing more powerful than death.