My Spy | 2020 | PG-13 | – 2.5.5

Why is “My Spy” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “action/violence and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a kissing scene, a few flirting scenes, discussions of seduction, discussions of stereotypical assumptions about gay people, and some cleavage revealing outfits; several scenes of undercover covert activity that include gunfights and physical fights with many people presumed dead without blood shown, discussions of a man having murdered his brother, a few scenes of threats of violence, discussions of people keeping secrets, a couple of car chases, a near kidnapping, an accidental stabbing without blood shown, and many 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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An experienced CIA agent (Dave Bautista) and his inexperienced partner (Kristen Schaal) are assigned to keep a woman (Parisa Fitz-Henley) and her precocious but lonely 9-year-old daughter (Chloe Coleman) under surveillance. When the girl discovers them, she extorts them to be her friends. Also with Greg Bryk, Ken Jeong, Nicola Correia-Damude, Devere Rogers and Noah Dalton Danby. Directed by Peter Segal. A couple of lines of dialogue are spoken in Russian without translation. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in French with English subtitles. [Running Time: 1:39]

My Spy SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A man and woman kiss.
► A man and a woman say that they like each other. A woman asks a man to dinner and he accepts. A woman gives a man her phone number and a preteen girl makes him tear it up and tells him to eat it (he does not). Women ask a man if they can see his scars from battle wounds. Women surround a man and stare at him when he flexes his muscles. A preteen girl talks to a man about being sensitive and emotionally vulnerable. A woman asks a neighbor if he and his partner would take her daughter ice skating and the man yells at her for making assumptions about their being gay and liking to ice skate (he’s joking). A woman yells at a man and berates him for getting too close to the people they are surveilling. A preteen girl threatens to turn a man in for seducing her mother over chicken and wine. A man says that his fiancée left him when he came back from serving in the military and he was wounded. Two men quiz another man about his intentions before a date with a woman.
► A woman wears low-cut tops that reveal cleavage in several scenes. A man opens his shirt to reveal a small tattoo on his bare chest.

My Spy VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – Armed men are shown in an abandoned warehouse and other men arrive carrying a case containing plutonium; during negotiations, one man holds a gun on another man and a fight ensues with one man fighting and shooting many others and ending with an explosion and a car chase and more gunfire (we see many men fall, presumably dead, without bloodshed).
► Armed men follow several other men toward a building, they open fire as the men enter the building, the building explodes and it is assumed that the men inside were killed (we do not see this). A man enters another man’s office, shoves him against a wall and threatens him for information. A surveillance video shows a woman being pulled out of a car by an armed man and he speeds away in the car. A man hits another man on the back with a gun and threatens him, as well as a woman and a young girl, while holding the family dog and a knife (he then puts the dog in a closet unharmed). Two men enter an apartment and throw a tray and a dish at two other men inside incapacitating them; he first two men get guns that had been dropped on the floor and threaten the others in the room until an automatic weapon is dropped down a flight of stairs and fires into the apartment (no one is struck and everybody dives for cover). A man grabs a preteen girl and speeds away in a car with her, takes her to an airfield where he straps her into a plane and they taxi down the runway until another man parks a fuel truck in the way and walks toward the plane slashing a tire as it moves past him; the two men fight as the plane spins around with the propellers spinning very near them, the plane moves toward the edge of a cliff and tips over with the girl still inside, the girl is helped out of the plane and the first man is struck on the back of the head with a crow bar and he falls on fencing that is pulled by the plane as it falls over the cliff (we assume the man is dead although we do not see this). An explosive is thrown into a flame burning near a fuel truck and it causes a large explosion as three people walk away from the area.
► A car chase through a city shows cars speeding on streets causing other cars to swerve and one car drives on a sidewalk causing pedestrians to jump to safety. A woman finds her preteen daughter in an elevator with a man she doesn’t know and the woman slams an ice cream cone out of the man’s hand and kicks him in the crotch (he slumps down the wall of the elevator in pain). A woman swings her arm back to throw a knife and it slips from her hand, stabbing a man behind her in the leg (we see the knife sticking out of his leg with no blood) and he says, “Ow” as the woman vomits on the floor (we see lots of goo). A man throws a knife at a woman warning her not to touch a case filed with weapons. A man has a large case filled with weapons and bullets.
► Preteen boys shove a preteen girl while ice skating and she falls to the ice; a man sees this and trips the boys as they pass him on the ice (the man is thrown out of the rink for bullying). Preteen boys shove a preteen girl and other preteen girls mock her and take her photo when she has jelly on her face. A preteen girl tips over a fish bowl dumping water and the fish inside it on the floor; a man panics, scoops the fish up and puts it in a glass of water (the fish is unharmed). A man saves a bird that seems to be injured and as it prepares to fly away, a larger bird swoops down and grabs it leaving feathers fluttering in the air (presumably killing the other bird).
► A preteen girl sneaks into an apartment and records a man and a woman conducting surveillance on her and her mother; she threatens to show the video to her mother or put it on the internet if the man doesn’t show her how to be a spy (they argue briefly).
► A man sneaks into an apartment to install surveillance cameras and a dog barks at them, the man gives the dog a treat and locks it in a closet (the dog is unharmed); the apartment owner returns and nearly finds the man, and when the dog finds him it licks his face and the man holds the dog and hides in a bookcase behind stuffed animals. A preteen girl mocks a man for not being able to ice skate and she makes chicken sounds; the man puts on skates and falls on the ice twice, later saying that he thinks he broke something (we see no injuries). A man tries to help a woman with a plumbing problem and when he turns a connection, the woman is sprayed with water. A man plays dodgeball in a school event and he is pummeled with several balls thrown by preteen children, before grabbing a ball, winding up and roaring causing all the children to scream and run. A woman tries to load a gun in a couple of scenes and bullets drop on the floor. A man tells a preteen girl to get herself invited into a stranger’s apartment as a test for being a spy; we see the girl on the balconies of several apartments interacting with different people. A preteen girl asks what a scar on a man’s chest is from and he says, “Shrapnel,” and the girl shows him a scar on her elbow from a skateboarding injury.
► A man tells a woman that he has been surveilling her and she becomes angry and throws a hidden camera at him before throwing him out. At a “special friend day” at a middle school, children ask a man if he was ever shot and if he killed people and how many people he killed when he says that he was in the military “taking out the human trash.” A man talks about all the other men in his group having been killed in a mission. A man talks about an experience in the military where he blew up a building to kill the enemy and says that they would eat lizards “after bashing their heads in” and “cooking them over C4” and “drinking their own urine.” We hear that a man murdered his own brother. A man tells a woman that he is working with, “You will never save me.” A mattress is stained and a woman smells the stain and says, “It’s blood.” A man yells at a woman about making assumptions about gay people. A woman describes her workday as a nurse with a case where there was “blood gushing everywhere” (she was exaggerating). A girl describes her mother and her uncle hating each other and that her mother poured wine over his head at a restaurant. A man and a woman talk about what to do with a preteen girl that has discovered them and the man says, “We should kill her and make it look like an accident.” A character says, “I’m gonna kill her.” A man says that his fiancée left him when he came back from serving in the military and he was wounded. A preteen girl takes a lie detector test and tells blatant lies but does not make the needle move. A man talks about killing someone with a freezer pop (in a rhetorical situation). A man makes fun of a child’s painting and the child runs away crying. A man shows a preteen girl how he dances and she asks him if he’s having a stroke. A man and a woman argue and he tells her that she is “on thin ice” as she calls him a “tattooed forest.” A woman talks about police raiding her house after her husband died and that he had kept secrets from her. A preteen girl asks if her father was a bad guy.

My Spy LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word derivative and 1 not fully enunciated F-word, 9 scatological terms, 6 anatomical terms, 11 mild obscenities, name-calling (Russian Mafia, spy stuff, tech, brawn, bratty, perv, pretty, Queer Eyed, tattooed forest, pervert, tricky, nonsense, lesbian friend, unemployed, so weird, buttercup, damaged, alone, charade, put my foot in my mouth), exclamations (help me, shut-up, freak me out, oh man, dude, wow), 7 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, God, Oh God, Holy [scatological term deleted], Jesus Christ, For God’s Sake, Holy [mild obscenity deleted], I’m Not God). | profanity glossary |

My Spy SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man and woman drink wine with a meal, and a woman drinks wine and a man is shown with a glass of whiskey (he doesn’t drink any) in a restaurant.

My Spy DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Spies, CIA, product placements, being new, making friends, fitting in, survival, equal pay, weakness, secrets, trust, parenting, single parenting, death of a parent, bullying, comeuppance, zero tolerance, guilt.

My Spy MESSAGE

 – Even the most hardened soldier has a heart.