Why is “Karate Kid: Legends” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “martial arts violence and some language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few kissing scenes, some flirting, an attack that leaves a teen boy dead from a knife wound, many scenes of fighting using martial arts with heavy kicks and punches landing and knocking opponents out, a boxing match that leaves one fighter unconscious and with a bloody wound, and several arguments and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A teen boy (Ben Wang) and his mother (Ming-Na Wen) relocate to New York from Beijing and the boy is on strict instructions not to fight. However, when a friend’s family is in trouble with moneylenders, he makes a choice that will help them all move forward. Also with Jackie Chan, Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley, Wyatt Oleff, Aramis Knight and Ralph Macchio. Directed by Jonathan Entwistle. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Mandarin with translation. [Running Time: 1:34]

Karate Kid: Legends SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A teen boy and a teen girl kiss passionately in a school hallway before being reprimanded. A teen boy and a teen girl kiss tenderly. A teen boy argues with a teen girl about seeing her with another teen boy; she tries to explain, and they kiss very briefly, before being interrupted by her father.
► A teen boy and a teen girl flirt and she rests her head on his shoulder. A teen boy reaches to touch a teen girl’s face and she pulls away. A teen boy and a teen girl flirt in several scenes.
► A man is shirtless in a couple of training sequences and we see his bare chest, abdomen and back.

Karate Kid: Legends VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – Two teen boys are surrounded by other teens and they fight: one teen draws a knife and stabs one of the other teens, killing him (the other teen has flashbacks to this event several times).
► Two men fight in a boxing ring and many heavy blows land; one man is punched and falls against the ropes, and one man holds the other man around the throat and hits him hard in the head causing a bloody wound and he falls unconscious to the mat; he is taken to the hospital in an ambulance. After a teen boy wins a fight in a competition, men charge toward him and two other men fight the approaching men to stave off an attack. Several fights take place with opponents earning points for body and head blows and knockouts; several fighters are shown being knocked out. A man is struck hard in the back of the head by another man with a stick; two other men move toward him and a teen boy fights all three attackers kicking, punching and throwing them until they run away. After losing a fight, a teen boy charges his opponent to knock him down, but he is knocked down instead.
► A teen boy goads another teen boy at school; one teen pushes the other and they fight briefly with one being punched in the face a couple of times and kicked in the head until adults separate them.
► A teen boy threatens a teen girl on a subway and punches a teen boy in the face as he walks by; we see him later with a swollen and bruised eye. A man says that his karate school students “fight to kill.” Several karate school sparring sequences show a teen boy kicking others hard in the head and they are thrown to the mat. A teen boy practices with a man that uses a spinning wooden pole to teach him speed and agility; the teen is struck and knocked down several times. A teen boy practices a jump in a subway turnstile and hits his head on the metal bar several times. A teen boy is thrown to the ground a few times and complains of there being a weird sound in his hip (he does not seem injured).
► A man and a teen boy spar, and the boy punches the man in the face knocking him backward. A teen boy is attacked by an intruder in his apartment; they fight each other with cooking pans and are interrupted when a woman arrives home (no injuries are incurred). A teen boy practices a jump-and-spin and falls hard on the floor; he gets up and limps, but is OK. A teen boy and a man are shown in several training sequences.
► A teen boy and a teen girl argue. A man confronts a teen girl asking about money that her father owes him and he seems to be threatening them. A teen girl reprimands her father and a teen boy for a plan to help her father compete in a boxing match. A woman chides her teenage son about violence and studying Kung Fu; she talks about having lost one son because of it. A teen boy asks another teen boy if his mother caused his black eye. A woman tells her teenage son that they are leaving Beijing and moving to New York; the boy is upset. A teen boy describes a Chinese practice to open all the windows in a house after a person dies to “sweep all the death out of your house.”
► A man takes a bite of very hot pizza and exclaims.

Karate Kid: Legends LANGUAGE 4

 – 5 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, name-calling (morons, lame, loser, complicated, dumb, psycho, Chinese Peter Parker, kiddo, scared to death), exclamations (slumming it, unbelievable, shut-up), 3 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, people pray during a lantern ceremony, oh God). | profanity glossary |

Karate Kid: Legends SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man talks about another man drinking a lot of sake when sailing.

Karate Kid: Legends DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Ancestors, tradition, death of a loved one, guilt, false hope, moving forward, friendship, homing pigeons, purpose, jealousy.

Karate Kid: Legends MESSAGE

 – Some things are worth fighting for.