Venom: The Last Dance | 2024 | PG-13 | – 2.6.5

Why is “Venom: The Last Dance” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “intense sequences of violence and action, bloody images and strong language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a hug and a dancing sequence, many scenes of numerous alien creatures fighting with Venom and humans leading to death and bloodshed, discussions of alien invasions, and at least 1 F-word derivative and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Presumably the final installment of the Venom story, about a mild-mannered reporter (Tom Hardy) and his symbiotic alien companion making their way across the country to get away from agents pursuing them, not realizing that other hunters from the outer regions of space are also on the way. Also with Juno Temple, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Graham, Rhys Ifans, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cristo Fernández, Clark Backo, Hala Finley and Peggy Lu. Directed by Kelly Marcel. [Running Time: 1:49]

Venom: The Last Dance SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A woman and Venom dance together and thrust their hips. A woman calls to a man across a crowded room and they hug in greeting.
► Dancers in Las Vegas wear costumes covered with large feathers and are low-cut, revealing cleavage and their legs to the hips. Women taken over by Venom entities are seen with slick skin that reveals the outline of their breasts, abdomens, backs and buttocks. Males taken over by Venom entities show their abdomens, chests, and outlines of their buttocks and legs. A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage.

Venom: The Last Dance VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A man is shown with a blade sticking out through his chest and blood around the blade (he is alive later). An alien creature is shot at by many armed people, it grabs several of them, and eats them (its mouth acts like a grinder) and we see blood spray from the back of its head.
► An alien creature eats another alien creature and it is shot at, it eats a few people and blood sprays from the back of its head, one man is impaled by a creature’s spear-like tendril (we see blood), and others scatter and search for cover while armed people continue shooting. An alien creature crashes through the glass roof of a hotel penthouse and fights with Venom, armed people in a flying vessel shoot into the room and a man is struck, and Venom is taken in a containment tube and is flown away.
► Several people are taken over by Venom entities and fight with other alien creatures in an extended sequence and a couple of the Venom entities are impaled and others are eaten. Alien creatures fight with Venom entities and a family watches from an observation tower; the tower is struck and tips over and Venom carries them to the ground safely when they fall. Many alien creatures chase a man on a motorcycle and are shot at by a helicopter causing an explosion, one alien lunges into the air and grabs a person inside the helicopter causing it to crash, a man on the ground is impaled through the back (we see blood on his shirt), and Venom uses the helicopter blades to slash alien creatures on the ground; many flaming portals open and many more alien creatures come through to fight with Venom entities and people; Venom is swarmed by many alien creatures, they walk into a warehouse entrance and are sprayed with acid (we watch as they writhe and disintegrate) and a large explosion creates a plume of fire destroying everything in the area (we see a man with twisted limbs and charred flesh on the ground).
► A man walks through a dark alley and follows the sounds of whining as we hear Venom tell him that someone is in trouble; he enters a building where we see many dogs held in cages and hear them whimpering, four armed men enter the room, threaten the man and one man uses a knife to cut his cheek (we see some blood) until Venom appears and throws the men around the room, holds them off the floor, frees the dogs from the cages and they attack the men (we see motionless bodies on the floor as Venom remarks about cutting their heads off but we do not see the heads separate). Venom and a man cling to the outside of an airplane in flight and the man complains of the cold and the wind; another alien creature lands on the plane and Venom and the creature fight briefly before the alien is pulled into the plane’s engine (we see pieces of it land on a road below where a van dodges the debris). Venom creates a parachute that attaches to a man’s back and they sail to the ground from a plane and land unharmed.
► Venom merges with a horse and charges through a desert landscape, leaping in the air and stopping short at a river; several armed men are dropped from a flying vessel and shoot at Venom and a man is thrown into the river, they are chased through the flowing water, a man is held underwater and he struggles, one person is shot and left with blood spreading in the water, Venom is trapped in a net and struggles to get free, and a man and Venom sail over a waterfall; Venom is tasered repeatedly and another alien creature leaps from a ledge into the water to reach Venom. Venom head-butts a security guard at a hotel when he won’t allow a man to enter because of a dress code. Venom hits a man throwing him across a road after the man urinates on a man’s shoe and foot (we see urine hitting his foot).
► Several people are held at gunpoint and escorted out of an observation area where alien creatures are held in containment areas. A man holds his head and complains of pain. A man in a bar stands up saying that he is drunk and he is pulled back into a large portal; he then reappears seemingly in a different timeline complaining of the multiverse. Multiple tendrils pop out of a man’s back and move quickly around a back bar breaking bottles and mixing a cocktail with a lot of liquor. A dog bites a man’s shoe and tears it in half when the man tries to retrieve it. A man looks into a retina ID scanner and we see an image of the inside of an eye. A man is upset when he remembers that he killed someone.
► Venom entities are large creatures with many sharp teeth, large eyes and tendrils that emerge and stretch around them and they speak with deep voices. An alien creature is perched on a gas station roof.
► A man in a containment area hyperventilates and we hear that he has “panic surges.” A man says, “Shoot me in the face,” when another man asks him to join a family sing-along. A deep-voiced alien being says, “I will kill your world and you will watch.” A deep-voiced being talks about being the slicer of worlds and sends his minions (creatures with large mouths filled with teeth that spin like saws and spear-like legs) through flaming portals in search of something on Earth. A man says that someone made his family disappear 5 years ago. An alien talks about eating people and brains in several scenes. A woman has enlarged veins on her neck and chin and we hear that she and her brother were struck by lightning when they were young; the boy apparently was killed by the strike (we see a flashback to the scene and the boy collapses on the ground with a scorch mark around him). A man asks another man what his mother would think of his behavior and the man says that his mother is dead. A truck is driven under a structure with nozzles on it and is sprayed with acid causing it to completely disintegrate. A man says that he would be tempted to blackmail an official to clear his name. We hear about the decommissioning of Area 51. A man says that he suffers from vertigo. Venom and a man argue and accuse each other of being passive-aggressive. A man says that he is going to steal a car. A young boy tells a man that his parents don’t let him eat sugar when he offers a hidden chocolate bar to the man. A man talks about a vision that you see at the moment you are going to die. A character says, “I smell wet dog.”
► A man plays a slot machine frantically pressing buttons and loses the money he started with; he stands up and kicks the machine while others around him are startled. Venom and a woman dance together and Venom picks the woman up with one of its tendrils and lifts her in the air. A man is given a plate of food and he throws it behind him when he realizes there is no meat on the plate. Several people climb through an opening in a fence surrounding a military installation and climb up an observation tower.
► We hear a dog gag as the car it is riding in swerves on the road; the driver asks if the dog vomited (we do not see any goo). A bit of Venom slime is left on a bar and it wriggles as a man vacuums it into a containment vial.

Venom: The Last Dance LANGUAGE 5

 – About 2 F-word derivatives (one is not fully-enunciated), 14 scatological terms, 7 anatomical terms, 8 mild obscenities, name-calling (bad man, reprehensible, stink, awkward, sweetie, weird, fickle slut, sexy, crazy, scary, the black one, symbiote hunter, creepy, monsters, Christmas), exclamations (aliens suck, freaking, effing, oh no, easy-peasy, shut-up, oh dear, I guess, oh man), 1 religious profanity (GD), 5 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, Jesus Christ, God forbid, oh my God, I swear to God). | profanity glossary |

Venom: The Last Dance SUBSTANCE USE

 – Venom mixes a cocktail in a bar, and a man says that he was drinking a lot and has a hangover in a few scenes.

Venom: The Last Dance DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Aliens, good vs. bad aliens, freedom, fearing the unknown, superheroes, second chances, alien invasion movies, altruism, science, blackmail, sacrifice, Thelma and Louise.

Venom: The Last Dance MESSAGE

 – Not all aliens are all bad.