Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver | 2024 | PG-13 | – 2.6.5

Why is “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “sequences of strong violence, brief strong language and suicide.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a couple of kissing scenes, many scenes of fights between people using swords and ray guns, many battle sequences with death and destruction and very little blood shown, a woman cuts her own arm off and it is replaced with a prosthetic arm, many scenes with arguments and yelling, 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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In this sequel, a cadre of farmer-warriors led by a woman (Sofia Boutella) and a man (Djimon Hounsou) helps imperiled farmers fight oppressors who want to subjugate their homeworld. Also with Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Staz Nair, Fra Fee, Elise Duffy, Charlotte Maggi, Stuart Martin, Cary Elwes, Sky Yang and the voice of Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Zack Snyder. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in ET languages with English subtitles, and some lines are spoken in an African language without translation. [Running Time: 2:02]

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A man and a woman are seen in bed under covers (we see part of his bare chest), and they kiss for a few seconds. A man and a woman kiss briefly.
► A man tells a woman “I love you” and she later tells him, “I love you.” A man says he is afraid of loving women.
► A woman wears a scoop neck dress that reveals cleavage. Several shirtless men are seen briefly (we see bare chests, abdomens and backs).

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A huge dreadnaught and many smaller ships belching black smoke appear in the sky and a landing party exits on a farm moon; a man argues with a woman and she agrees to surrender herself, but grabs a weapon and shoots a soldier as rebel soldiers come up out of the ground, firing laser weapons that cause smoke and fires; the first man jumps into a hole and kills several people in a tunnel, strangling and kicking them to death. A woman shoots three men on a vessel while a man sets explosives. Hundreds of people fight soldiers using long swords, light sabers, laser and projectile rifles, axes, fists and kicks; fires and smoke cover the landscape among loud explosions and shouts (two additional battle sequences in slow motion show similar encounters with many soldiers falling dead). A man screams for several seconds at his troops and aides; he shouts, “I’ll murder every one of you,” grabs an aide by the throat, lifts him up, slams him to the floor, and shoots him dead with a ray gun (no blood is shown). Two men fight inside a shuttle and one of the men rolls out to his death. A woman holds two glowing swords and fights off several men, killing them (no blood is seen); she falls but gets up and kills more men, she loses her prosthetic arm and fights one-handed, is stabbed in the side, and falls as a young boy kicks the man that stabbed the woman, tripping him, and the woman stabs him dead (no blood is seen); the boy and the woman hug, he cries, and she falls dead.
► A flashback shows a family entering a hall and being assassinated by a person with a ray gun; a teen girl is shot and she glows and floats, dead and with her eyes open before falling to the floor and we later see a dead man on a funeral cart. A flashback shows a forest bombed to char as a man watches on his knees. In a flashback, a woman kills a man with a sword, holds him as he dies (no blood is seen), and cuts her left arm off below the frame; the scene fades and comes up on her metal prosthetic arm that we hear clank later. A woman is arrested, but shoots several soldiers with a ray gun, shoots through a door and escapes. A woman throws herself off a high balcony to her death that we do not see.
► A man holds an explosive device that destroys a tunnel full of soldiers as we see a rolling firestorm and smoke, and the man is also killed and we see debris thrown. A tank that is a metal walking crab stomps loudly across a battle scene and shoots cannons into crowds of soldiers and many fall to the ground and a large building is burned to the ground. An officer says that a ship will return home and leave their soldiers on the ground to die because this will make “a few less [sic] mouths to feed.” A woman stabs a man in the foot, leg, and side (no blood is seen), he dies, and she shoots another man dead with a ray gun. A man chops another man in the back and neck with an axe (no blood is seen) and the victim falls dead. A sentient robot watches a farm village while holding a war staff and wearing deer antlers.
► A robot kills many men with a ray gun, wrenches open a tank, and tosses in a grenade that kills two men and destroys the tank, all in flames and smoke and the robot is unharmed by rays and bullets that hit him. In the dreadnaught, a man and a woman fist fight, using glowing swords, and choke each other, but another man stabs the first man through the back (no blood is seen), stopping just short of the woman’s face. A woman cuts off a man’s head below the frame and we hear the head land on the floor. A large flying vessel launches torpedoes at the ground, but blows itself up instead; the ship descends slowly to the ground and burns up, as a man and a woman escape in a shuttle and skid onto the ground (we see blood on their faces) and he dies. An air force squad shoots down many ships that crash to the ground.
► A man thought to be dead lies in a deep vat where electrical cables attached to his body glow and spark, hands reach in and peel a plastic covering from his face and shoulders and he revives, coughing and we see a scar on his chest. A shuttle releases a smoke bomb to make the dreadnaught officers think a ship was damaged. Men open cases of laser-powered handguns and rifles, axes, and clubs; they make bullets as sparks fly, adults and teens practice shooting scarecrows and one teen girl blasts a scarecrow completely to bits.
► Farmers learn that their oppressors are coming to steal their wheat crop; the farmers work to harvest the crop 24 hours a day for three days and hide it in buildings. A man vows to hunt down a rebel and kill her. Soldiers hold women and children captive. At a night memorial service, the personal banners of hundreds of soldiers and civilians who died are burned and a group of survivors and a robot dedicate themselves to fighting the Imperium in the future, finding a princess who they learn is not dead, and avenging the death of her father.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 1 mild obscenity, name-calling (idiots, lazy, murderer, traitor, snake), 3 religious exclamations (e.g. thank the old gods, by the old gods, a prayer in a foreign language and without translation). | profanity glossary |

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man drinks from a flask and it is unclear whether it contains alcohol (he later fills it with water), and men and women in a longhouse hold steins and goblets that may contain wine and a few men are shown drinking.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Class differences, royal families, farm life, invasion by oppressors, spies, war crimes, greed, power, brutality, murder, revenge, anger, sadness, atonement, freedom, peace, family, love, cooperation, camaraderie, fighting for a worthy cause, suicide.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver MESSAGE

 – A well-prepared group of people can win a war for freedom against the rich and their more numerous, massively armed troops.