Carry-On | 2024 | PG-13 | – 1.5.5

Why is “Carry-On” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong violence, bloody images, some language and suggestive references.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a couple of kisses, discussions of pregnancy and parenting, several people dying by gunshot, a stabbing, a poisoning and a drug induced heart attack, a gunfight in a car traveling at high speed that ends with bloody injuries and crashes, a few fistfights and near strangulations, several arguments and threats of violence, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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After being blackmailed into allowing a carry-on bag containing nerve gas to slip through security and onto a plane, a resourceful LAX TSA officer (Taron Egerton) races to outsmart the seemingly omniscient man (Jason Bateman) who’s manipulating him, and also save his pregnant girlfriend (Sofia Carson). Also with Danielle Deadwyler, Theo Rossi, Tonatiuh, Logan Marshall-Green, Dean Norris, Sinqua Walls and Curtiss Cook. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. A line of dialogue is spoken in Russian without translation. [Running Time: 1:59]

Carry-On SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A man and a woman kiss tenderly in a few scenes. A man and a woman lie in bed together embracing.
► A pregnancy test with a positive result is shown. A man describes his song lyrics as “sex positive.”

Carry-On VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A man enters a greenhouse and places a gun on a table as another man talks to him about the cost of a previously negotiated sale; the man opens a bag containing money and flips through the bills before beginning to cough and spit blood; he collapses dead and another man enters and is shot by the first man, who then pours flammable liquid around the area and lights the building on fire (the two dead men are still inside). A man holds a gun on another man and a third man stabs him in the neck with a pen; blood gushes from the wound and the man dies. A man falls dead in an airport after being slashed on the hand with a blade that was laced with a chemical that induced a heart attack.
► A woman in a car with a man draws a gun and threatens him as he speeds on a highway; the woman shoots at the man and they struggle over the weapon, shooting a few more times and swerving across traffic causing other vehicles to swerve and crash; the car flips and the two people inside struggle to get out as the man tries to strangle the woman and she shoots him (blood sprays). A man tells another man to kill a woman, he arms himself with a knife and follows her through a busy airport terminal; a man tries to intervene, he is stabbed under the arm and falls to the floor bleeding (we see him being treated later); the attacker chases the woman as she runs away from him, he speeds after her in a van, slams into another car and chases her on foot into a parking garage where she hides behind cars; he points a gun at her and he is shot in the head (we see a bloody wound) by somebody else. A man shoots at another man in the cargo hold of a plane mid-flight; the two men fight with punches and shoving and one man is trapped in a storage locker with a deadly gas as it dispenses; we see the man coughing and spitting blood as he claws at the door and eventually falls dead. A man is told that he has to kill another man; he arms himself and he shoots at the man, they fight in a baggage area and fall down stairs; they fall onto conveyor belts and tumble through the area as the man with the gun continues to shoot until the gun explodes in his hand leaving him with a bloody neck wound that pools blood on the floor as he dies. An officer approaches a man in a restricted area of an airport and we later see the officer lying dead on the floor with a bloody wound.
► A man runs through an airport terminal to find his girlfriend and we see a red dot on her forehead indicating that a sniper has a gun trained on her and threatens to shoot her. A man slams another man against a wall and punches him in the face; the man falls to the floor and the attacker kicks him in the abdomen a couple of times, the man punches the attacker and the attacker holds him in a headlock; the man finds a gun in the attacker’s pocket, threatens him with it and fires a warning shot.
► A man in a crowded airport disarms a weapon containing a deadly biological agent as a timer ticks down in a couple of scenes. A man climbs into the cargo hold of a plane as it prepares for takeoff and attempts to disarm a weapon while the plane takes off. A man is shown bound and gagged in the back of a van and another man holds a gun to his head. An armed person breaks into a house where a woman and her children are getting ready to leave; the gunman watches them and talks to someone about whether to “bag ’em.”
► A man pleads for a man not to kill his husband. A man is tackled and handcuffed by police until they are told to let him go and they do. We hear that police have found the remains of two men in building fire rubble. We hear that a man sells arms to the Russians. A TSA officer finds an earbud and hears a man talking to him and giving him instructions when he puts it in his ear; the voice threatens to execute someone close to the officer, and later there are numerous threats toward the officer’s girlfriend (the voice in the earbud tells the man that he’s going to have to sleep on the couch). A man snaps at a man he is listening to on an earbud and his girlfriend thinks he’s talking to her and becomes upset.
► A woman driving a car while texting nearly crashes into a police officer at the scene of a building fire. People in an airport hear an announcement about security needing to conduct random bag checks. People yell at officers in an airport and call them names; people complain about their rights being abused when they are scanned with a metal detector and told to walk through an X-ray machine. Dogs sniff baggage in a busy airport.
► A man climbs into a bus and his backpack is caught in the doors, as the driver seems to close them too quickly; the driver then accelerates quickly causing the man to stumble through the aisle. A man bumps into another man in a crowded airport and spills the man’s coffee on him.
► A man describes people being nervous and anxious traveling on Christmas Eve and advising his security agents to be patient. An officer says that they have been alerted to fraudulent boarding passes being used. People talk about a deadly biological weapon that will be used to kill many people to send a message.
► A man vomits in a toilet a few times and we hear retching and splattering (we do not see goo). A man urinates in a urinal (we hear trickling).

Carry-On LANGUAGE 5

 – About 2 F-words (1 not fully enunciated), 10 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 9 mild obscenities, name-calling (kids are a curse, chaos, perv, weird, super weird), exclamations (whining, wow, screwed, bingo, bah humbug, oh my gosh, calm down, naughty-naughty, oopsie-daisy), 3 religious profanities (GD), 4 religious exclamations (e.g. oh God, oh my God, godforsaken). | profanity glossary |

Carry-On SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man puts alcohol into another man’s coffee (we don’t see him drink).

Carry-On DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Life choices, ambition, love, disappointment, parenting, air travel, TSA, Homeland Security, terrorism, biological weapons, trust, dreams, authenticity, defense contractors, fulfillment, fear of failure.

Carry-On MESSAGE

 – Resourcefulness and perseverance can save the day.