Why is “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some strong language, violence and suggestive references.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a kiss, a few hugs in greeting, a man dying from a gunshot wound, several scenes of people using misdirection to escape being chased by authorities and henchmen, a car chase through crowded streets, people being trapped in a box as it fills with sand, several threats of violence, discussions of Nazi Germany, discussions of the death of a parent, discussions of suicide, several arguments, 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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Doing magic while righting wrongs is the theme of a new generation of magicians that follow in the footsteps of the “Horsemen.” When the original team receives encrypted calling cards, they reunite and join forces to tackle this puzzle together. With Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, Rosamund Pike and Morgan Freeman. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in French with English subtitles. [Running Time: 1:52]

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A man talks awkwardly to a woman and they kiss. A man embraces a woman and she pulls away.
► A woman poses suggestively while holding a diamond and being photographed. Two men and a woman do quick changes pulling their clothing off to reveal different outfits underneath.
► Women at a gala wear low-cut dresses that reveal cleavage and bare shoulders. A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – Many armed police enter a chateau searching for people and go through heavily mirrored rooms and upside-down rooms that leave them unable to catch the people they are looking for; one man disappears behind a mirror as an officer shoots at him (we see him die later with a bloody wound) and we see several people fall through a trapdoor and walk through a dark passage. Many security guards chase several people; a woman throws a champagne bottle at one, one is tripped by a man swinging a coat at his legs, two are hypnotized, and the people make their escape by sliding down a cable between buildings. A woman fights several police officers, she flips over tables and they slam her against walls and desks, she climbs a bookshelf and tips it onto the floor. Several people are locked in a containment box as it fills with sand; they struggle to find a way out of the box before it fills with sand and suffocates them; the box breaks and they fall out and onto the floor unharmed. A woman shoots a man and he falls to the floor motionless; he revives and spits out the bullet startling the woman and she shoots several more times (he is not struck).
► A woman forces a man to put a large diamond in his mouth and says that if he were to swallow it, it would “rip his throat to shreds and he would bleed to death” (he spits it out and he is unharmed). A woman being led to a cell by a police officer trips and falls to the floor seemingly breaking her arm (we see the arm snapped at the elbow and blood spurts from the separated piece (it is fake) and the officer runs for help leaving the woman to pull a key from her nose and free a man in a cell. A woman lights spilled liquor creating a wall of flames that keep police from reaching her and a man runs through the flames and punches an officer in the face knocking him to the floor. A man opens a secured display case to reveal a large diamond that a woman holds in her hand and it explodes (the woman is not harmed). A man holds a gun on another man and the second man hits him in the face, they wrestle on the ground and one holds the other in a chokehold until he falls unconscious and other armed men enter the room and hold the man at gunpoint. A man is chained inside a police transport vehicle; he gets free, pepper sprays guards inside and jumps out the back of the vehicle as the driver swerves on the road.
► A magician invites an audience member onstage during a performance and puts him to sleep; four other people onstage seemingly enter his body and he wakes up impersonating one of them. A man onstage tosses several cell phones that belong to befuddled men into an audience and gives them codes to access a great deal of money (stolen by the men). A woman receives a phone call and hears a distorted voice singing a children’s lullaby; the voice talks about a child having died 15 years earlier. A man pushes his hand through a portrait and finds documents that allude to a person’s criminal activity.
► A man speeds in a racecar and people jump out of the way, he is chased by police and is eventually arrested. A man jumps on a stage and pushes a giant ice sculpture onto the floor shattering it in a crowded room. A woman scales the side of a building and climbs across outcroppings to get to the roof and inside. Several security people enter a heavily secured area with a vault that holds a diamond deep under a desert. A chateau is filled with magic tricks and memorabilia and is constructed to have rooms with many mirrors, one room is upside down and it can be upturned, staircases that lead nowhere, and hidden rooms and spaces.
► We hear that a woman’s mother committed suicide and that another woman died in a car accident. People talk about a diamond theft being an inside job. A reference is made about driving a stake through the heart of the devil. A man recoils from another man reaching toward him and says, “Never touch my face again.” A man flaunts his gold phone and proudly tells a woman, “I’m rich,” as she warns him of pickpockets in the area. People chant, “Horsemen” in a performance venue. A woman argues that diamonds made in laboratories have no feeling. We hear that a man is in prison. A man describes a woman freeing him from his seatbelt as she drowned after her car crashed into water. A man says, “I wanted to die.” A man says that several other people are “dead to me.” A man leaves a room suggesting that he is going to have a drink and says, “This liver is not going to destroy itself.”

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 1 sexual reference, 15 scatological terms, 7 anatomical terms, 3 mild obscenities, name-calling (fool, dude, little Mario, insane, blood soaked, fanboy, racist, the world’s worst people, weird, awkward, psychopath, pathetic, misfit, nerd heaven, goon, sloppy, imposters, cocky, terrible, sad, pathetic, desperate, stupid, boring, witch, crazy, arrogance, daddy issues, cheap con artists, fruit fly, humiliating, Greenpeace, foolishness, control freak), exclamations (frickin, fat chance, poof, kids today, ooo he’s cute, gimme a break, lawyer up, jeez, relax, speak, come on, oh wow, stop interrupting, zip it, cool), 11 religious exclamations (e.g. Holy [scatological term deleted], God help you, thank God, oh my God, what in God’s name, my God). | profanity glossary |

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink champagne at a gala, a man holds a glass of whiskey, and a man leaves a room suggesting that he is going to have a drink.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Magic, wars, pandemics, illusions, reading minds, crypto, impersonation, shame, greed, moral fiber, arms dealers, Nazis, Robin Hood, Greenpeace, Interpol, money laundering, consequences, reparations, generational differences, sacrifice, corruption, climate change, regret, lying, infidelity, student debt, authenticity, foster care, copyright infringement, South African diamond mines, suicide, misdirection.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t MESSAGE

 – Learn to make your own magic.