Madame Web | 2024 | PG-13 | – 2.6.4

Why is “Madame Web” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violence/action and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an implied sex scene, a kissing scene, a flirting scene including suggestive dancing, several people being shot to death with some blood shown, many scenes of accidents that cause death and injuries with some blood shown, people with superhuman strength that fight each other and cause destruction and injuries, people being poisoned by a spider’s venom, many arguments, and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A woman (Dakota Johnson) discovers that she has been endowed with a superpower that allows her to see into the future, and she enlists the help of three teenagers (Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced and Celeste O’Connor) to fight the baddies. Also with Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott, Kerry Bishé and Zosia Mamet. Directed by S.J. Clarkson. [Running Time: 1:57]

Madame Web SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A man sits next to a woman in a theater and we see them later at his apartment, where they kiss and later are shown in bed (sex is implied); the man is shirtless (his bare chest, back and abdomen are shown) and the woman is wearing a bra that reveals cleavage and her bare abdomen.
► Three teen girls talk to and flirt with several teen boys in a diner; we later see the girls dancing on the table while the boys look on.
► A man tells a woman that he met someone and that it is serious.
► A woman is shown to be pregnant and we are told that she is in her last month.
► A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage and her bare shoulders. A newborn is shown and we see her bare back, shoulders, abdomen and legs). Teenage girls wear cropped tops that reveal bare abdomens and cleavage. A billboard features a woman wearing a small top that reveals cleavage, bare shoulders and abdomen. A woman wears a low-cut tank top that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders.

Madame Web VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A woman holds a large, glowing spider in a glass canister and people gather around to see it; one man shoots several of the other people and struggles with the woman over the canister, eventually shooting her (we see blood on her abdomen; she is pregnant). A woman in bed with a man reaches for her bag that has a gun in it, the man grabs the woman’s arm and tells her to give him information or he will let her die from a poison she has been injected with; she dies and we see her with darkened veins under her skin. An ambulance drives away from a fire and is slammed into by a truck; we see the driver pulled out of the ambulance dead and with blood on his wounds and the hands of an attending medical person. A woman driving an ambulance speeds through a billboard and crashes onto a street where several cars are stuck in a traffic jam; the woman speeds away in the ambulance while being chased by a man with superhuman strength jumping across the roofs of other moving vehicles; a person inside the ambulance zaps the roof of the ambulance with a paddle and the man is shocked and thrown when he touches it. A woman and three teen girls run through an explosives and fireworks depot setting off explosions as a man with superhuman strength chases them and is thrown by the explosions; shrapnel is also thrown nearly hitting the teens and each teen is struck by the man and falls, an explosive hits a helicopter and it blows up, a piece of the framework collapses pinning the man and he crashes to the ground, a giant neon sign sparks and letters fall pinning the man to the ground and the woman falls into water where she sinks, unconscious; a teen girl dives in after her and the three teens perform CPR on her until she revives, coughing. A woman speeds in a taxi on a two-lane road, passes a truck carrying lumber, cuts the truck off and then slams through the entrance of a diner, hitting a man inside.
► A woman has many visions of events that are yet to occur and usually include people being killed. A woman on a train sees a man attacking three teen girls, lifting them out of their seats, holding them by the throat and throwing them as another passenger screams. A man with superhuman strength attacks three teen girls, holds one off the floor by the throat and throws her; slams another against a chair breaking her neck, a woman tries to stab him and instead he stabs her in the abdomen. A woman sees a vision of a car accident and a man with superhuman strength attacking people in one car.
► An ambulance arrives at the scene of a multi-car crash on a bridge; a medical person climbs into one car that has flipped on its roof and releases the seatbelt holding the driver (he has a bloody wound on his head); he is helped out of the car and the first person is trapped in the car as it falls off the bridge; we see that she has struck her head on the windshield and she floats motionless in the water having visions of webs and hearing voices talking about the future (she regains consciousness later).
► A person climbs across the ceiling of a train station chasing three teen girls and a woman, police try to arrest the woman and we see the officers thrown around the platform and off-screen by a person with superpowers; the three teens and the woman run away and the woman steals a taxi outside the station and speeds away. A man has a nightmare that includes three young women attacking him with what looks like spider’s legs attached to their backs and they seem to have superhuman strength; he is kicked out a window and he screams as he falls. A wounded pregnant woman is picked up by a person that swoops out of trees and runs through them carrying her to a cave where she is placed in a pool of water and delivers her baby (we see the child and it cries) after a large glowing spider bites her on the chest (we see a bloody spot at the bite site), and we understand that the woman died.
► A woman speeds through city streets in an ambulance while a man performs chest compressions on a woman on a stretcher in the back (we later hear that the woman survived); the ambulance stops short of hitting a teen girl on a skateboard and the girl flashes an obscene hand gesture at the driver. A pigeon flies into a closed window breaking the glass and we see the bird lying dead. A pigeon flies through an open window and flutters around inside an apartment before flying away. A woman climbs up a fire escape to get into her apartment. A woman tries to climb a wall, but slides down and onto the floor.
► We hear that there is a fire at a fireworks depot at a pier; medical personnel arrive at the scene, help people out of the burning building, and perform CPR on some as fireworks explode around them; we are told that there are still people inside. Three teens leave an open fire burning in a forest. A woman drops a glass bowl on the floor and it shatters. Balloons pop at a party startling the attendees. A woman is shown in a hospital with a bandage across her eyes and later, she wears heavy glasses. A man pushes a woman off a rock and into water where she has visions of meeting her mother and confronting her; we understand that the child the woman was carrying was diagnosed with an untreatable disorder.
► A woman leaves three teen girls in a forest and tells them not to “do dumb things.” A woman bends over and moans in pain (she is very pregnant). A woman winces in pain and we see a spot on her hand where poison was injected. A woman complains about “targeting teenagers” while searching for people that a man wants to do away with. A teenager yells at a woman when the woman takes her skateboard and later throws her cellphone out a moving car’s window. A woman tells a teen girl, “You flipped me off.” Teens talk about going to spend one of the teen’s “Daddy’s pollution money.” We hear that when a man stole a spider, he was cursed. A teen girl says that her father was deported and she is on her own. A teen girl says that her mother is in a psych ward and that the teen’s father’s new family doesn’t want her. A teen girl says that her parents resent her and what they are missing out on by having her. A woman talks about being very angry that her mother risked her life while being pregnant to go to a jungle. A woman is very awkward when a young boy offers her a “thank you” drawing for saving his mother; a man convinces her to take the drawing. A man says that he is cursed.
► A woman photographs large spider webs in a jungle and we understand that she is looking for the elusive spider that created it. People talk about a spider’s venom containing healing properties and that it imbues humans with superhuman strength.
► A pregnant woman says that either she urinated on herself or her water broke and we see a puddle on the floor.

Madame Web LANGUAGE 4

 – 1 obscene hand gesture, 9 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 5 mild obscenities, name-calling (foster kid, strays, buzzkill, crazy, death trap, weird, insane, dumb, impulsive, hangry, selfish, entitled, not cool, useless), exclamations (oh wow, what’s the deal, knock yourself out, freaking, stop, jeez, rise and shine, she bailed on you), 1 religious profanity (GD), 23 religious exclamations (e.g. Holy [scatological term deleted], oh my God, oh God, God, Jesus). | profanity glossary |

Madame Web SUBSTANCE USE

 – Several people are injected with a poison that kills them, and a woman is injected with a poison that causes her pain. People drink beer at a cookout.

Madame Web DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Legends, spiders, foster families, the future, obsession, medical advancements, sixth sense, folklore, trauma, destiny, helplessness, neuromuscular disorders, sacrifice, responsibility.

Madame Web MESSAGE

 – Stand up for what’s right.