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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | 2023 | PG | – 1.3.1
Animated film about a scientist (Taraji P. Henson) that decides she wants to build a meteor magnet in order to attract a giant meteor and harvest its magical power crystals. The PAW Patrol quickly jumps into action to save Adventure City. Also with the voices of Kristen Bell, James Marsden, Finn Lee-Epp, Luxton Handspiker, Mckenna Grace, Christian Corrao, Marsai Martin, Callum Shoniker, Christian Convery, Lil Rel Howery, Saint West, Kim Roberts, Alan Kim, North West, Brice Gonzalez and Nylan Parthipan. Directed by Cal Brunker. [Running Time: 1:32]
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie SEX/NUDITY 1
– As a man and a woman crawl through a sewer pipe, the camera focuses on the man’s clothed buttocks and the woman is frustrated by the view; she bumps her face into the man’s buttocks later when he stops short.
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie VIOLENCE/GORE 3
– A woman sabotages a plane and causes one engine to catch fire, sending it careening to the ground; a dog shoots into the sky to rescue the passengers and the woman steals the dog’s crystal causing the dog to lose her superpowers, and the woman jumps out of the plane leaving the dog to try to land the disabled plane; the dog flies through tall city buildings and below a train track to avoid hitting a train as it passes, and then lands the plane on the street without injuries. A dog goes alone to destroy many meteors heading to Earth and shoots many out of the sky with her plane, then flies without the plane when it is struck and crashes; she faces a giant flaming meteor as the city below is evacuated and she flies directly into it, it explodes into many fragments that crash into the water and the dog falls unconscious and sinks to the bottom; other dogs onshore worry that she did not survive, but she is OK.
► A giant magnet attached to a crane in a scrapyard picks up piles of scrap metal; the driver leaves the crane to answer a phone call and is locked into the office, where he and a woman watch the crane being stolen, items crushed, tall piles of cars toppled and flames igniting, and surrounding the people in the office. When a fire breaks out in a scrap yard, several dogs in ground vehicles and one in a plane go to the rescue; the plane drops buckets of water on the flames and fire truck shoots a water cannon dousing the rest and saving a man and a woman trapped in a building.
► A dog raises a tall ladder to rescue a window washer many floors off the ground. A truck with a magnetic force lifts an unmanned delivery van off the street as it rolls toward a man and a dog walking across the street. A man is rescued from a sinking boat by a dog in another vehicle. Three puppies jump into a giant man’s mustache and crawl up his nose causing him to sneeze and blow them onto a nearby building’s roof (they are unharmed). A dog flows through pipes in water form and exits through a faucet into a sink where he transforms back to dog form. Several dogs and a woman fight throwing large objects at each other, zapping electricity, two dogs fall over a cliff and one turns into elastic and pulls them both back to safety and the woman is wrapped in an orb of water. A dog throws a wrecking ball into a magnet machine and destroys it. An elastic dog wraps around a woman to keep her from making any trouble.
► A dog investigates bright lights flashing behind a door and finds a meteor glowing; it stops and it cracks open after the dog touches it and we see several glowing crystals inside it, and one crystal attaches itself to the dog; the dog floats off the floor with glowing paws and is imbued with super-strength. We hear loud humming and ripples move through water. A woman touches a glowing crystal and she zaps with electricity and floats into the air; a man’s mustache is filled with static and several cats are shown with static in their fur. A dog flies and chases a woman that also flies and they zoom through clouds until the dog is trapped in a force field and locked in a cage. A man grows to be giant sized and clomps through a city street threatening to crush dogs under his feet, and he crushes an ice cream truck under one foot (no one is hurt); he eventually shrinks and his large hat falls on him and then shrinks restraining him.
► A man plans a jailbreak with his six cats and a woman; they climb and crawl through sewer pipes and exit through a manhole with soiled clothing. A woman laughs maniacally swings acrobatically from heavy chains in an observatory and prepares a giant electromagnet that shoots a tractor beam to attract meteors to Earth; the machine overheats and a meteor flies toward a city, where dogs get people to safety as the meteor crashes into their tower and destroys it. A woman in a jail cell throws a toilet paper roll at a TV outside the cell and yells.
► Several dogs speed off a platform and away from a vessel and one is left behind to care for three puppies; she is not happy about being left behind to babysit. Several dogs develop super powers when crystals attach to their tags; we see one with super strength, one with the power of water, one with super speed, one with a wrecking ball, and one dog does not seem to have powers and is disappointed. Several dogs drive and fly rescue vehicles in several scenes. Three puppies accidentally bump into a telescope and another dog reprimands them for not being careful. Three puppies hide in a mailbox uninjured after a large explosion destroys a tower. Three puppies fall and are thrown off a treadmill, and later are thrown by the force of a fire extinguisher that they use to extinguish a candle flame. A dog climbs out of a barn and trudges through snow trying to catch a person on a snowmobile on a road; the dog becomes exhausted and collapses in the snow and the person comes back to help, wrapping it in his jacket.
► A woman yells in frustration in a jail cell. A newscaster yells during a description of an event and says, “I almost got squashed.” A dog worries about being the smallest in the PAW Patrol and not being able to help because of her size. A dog talks about not being adopted because she was the smallest and weakest of her litter. A woman says that no one ever cared about her and a dog says that she always felt small and insignificant.
► A dog is accidentally thrown into a dumpster and comes out with a banana peel on her head. A dog snores loudly.
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie LANGUAGE 1
– Name-calling (weird, runt of the litter, puff balls, weirdest, rip-off, tacky, pipsqueak, little pup, heartless monster, ridiculous, mad scientist), exclamations (oops, woops, sorry, okey-dokey, woa, oh no, awesome, are you kidding me, yeesh, freaks me out, rock and roll, or whatever, hot dog, oh my goodness, yikes). | profanity glossary |
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie SUBSTANCE USE
– None.
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie DISCUSSION TOPICS
– Superpowers, dogs, friendship, wanting to do the right thing, greed.
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie MESSAGE
– Always try to do the right thing.
(Note: An animated short called “Dora and the Fantastical Creatures” precedes the film, with several lines of dialogue spoken in Spanish without translation: An animated monkey smashes into the screen and we see its cheek smashed but not harmed, a girl and a monkey go through a portal to a magical land with fantastical creatures flying around and we see crystal chrysalises holding developing creatures hanging from trees, a small fox steals a glowing orb and a girl, and a monkey and a flying cat chase him after making everything dark by hiding the sun behind the moon.)
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