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The Sea Beast | 2022 | PG | – 1.3.2

content-ratingsWhy is “The Sea Beast” rated PG? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “action, violence and some language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes many scenes of encounters with giant sea creatures that throw ships around in the sea and cause some to capsize and a couple to sink with few visible injuries, many arguments, yelling, threats of arrest, and some name-calling. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.


An adventurous orphan girl (voiced by Zaris-Angel Hator) stows away on a monster hunter’s (voiced by Karl Urban) ship in order to experience sea monsters and their capture. Eventually, she realizes that many monster tales in her beloved books are only government-sponsored propaganda. Also with the voices of Jared Harris, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Dan Stevens, Kathy Burke, Jim Carter, Doon Mackichan and Helen Sadler. Directed by Chris Williams. [Running Time: 1:55]

The Sea Beast SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A shirtless man is shown in one scene (his bare chest, abdomen and back are seen).

The Sea Beast VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – We see many scenes with a large creature that has green scales, sharp teeth and a nose horn, a large red creature with yellow eyes, blunt teeth and a nose horn, a giant purple crab, and a tiny blue creature that squeaks and is kept as a pet.
 Several sequences include monster hunters that resemble pirates, firing rifles, handguns, spears, harpoons, and cannonballs at either a green creature or a red creature (we hear growls but see no blood) and we see a lot of fireballs and smoke; the creatures ram and tilt the ships and a few men fall out of crows nests and into the water but are pulled back aboard, people and objects slide back and forth on the decks and in the cabins, a man saves another man from drowning, and a navy ship sinks (we do not see or hear about any deaths). Men and women swing knives and swords at the creatures to no avail, but a man slices off several tendrils from one creature, it spews black blood, it falls unconscious underwater (likely dying) and the man cuts off its nose horn. A fight sequence features a creature slamming a ship and being stabbed with a huge poison-tipped spear, it falls unconscious (no blood shows) and men pull out the spear and tie up the creature, dragging it to their homeport.
 A flashback shows a preteen boy escape from a burning ship and he drifts on a large piece of wood as we see the large burning ship in the background and a man on another ship finds the boy and takes him onboard.
 Men on a ship threaten each other with guns and swords, without fighting, in several scenes. A man with a sword and another man with a knife fight using slashing and kicking and one man falls several times, finally landing in the water with a young girl; a creature rises up in the water and swallows them (we see them held in the creature’s mouth and they exit through a nostril when the creature puts them on an island). A young girl yells and attacks a man with a knife until another man stops her.
 A ship hauls a giant creature into a city and a young girl and a woman cut it loose; it smashes into part of a castle and a dock area, throwing crumbled cement into the air and causing spectators to gasp and shout. A man and a young girl step on large eggs, releasing hundreds of small beasts that chase them; a large beast (it’s like a seal with tusks) joins the chase, and the man tosses a small beast at it and it stops chasing them. A young girl and a man pull many spears out of a creature’s back and it growls (no blood is visible). A young girl locked in a ship’s cabin is freed by a small creature that rips off the porthole covering.
 A giant crab covered in spikes and having many rows of sharp teeth, and a huge fish with a horn fight on a beach with snapping, ramming, biting, and roaring for several seconds (no blood is shown); a man swings a sword at the crab several times and stabs it with a spear (no blood is shown), a young girl falls into the water and a tiny creature helps her swim to shore, the fish bites the crab and the crab limps away into the water to end the scene.
 A shirtless man faces the camera as another man sews something up on his back (we can’t see the injury, but we see two long scars on his chest). A woman has a peg leg and another woman has a prosthetic hook for a hand. A man wears an eye patch, stating that a sea monster injured his eye 30 years earlier. A young girl falls down a hillside and lies still as a man picks her up and finds blood on his hand; we later see a bandage around the girl’s arm, a woman gives the girl a knife and the girl waves it around and sticks it in a wooden wall. A woman on a ship puts several knives into her waistband and throws an axe and a mace into a dartboard on a wall. A thunderstorm includes rain, lightning, and thunder and a small boat is damaged but on one is harmed.
 A man looks at a book about himself as a monster hunter and sees false stories about creatures killing many people and destroying many cities (which never existed); the man shouts that this is nonsense, and he stops another man from killing a creature, and breaking a huge harpoon over his knee. A young girl holds a book up to a crowd and shouts about propaganda and lies made up by a king and queen in order to profit from killing sea creatures; soldiers pointing guns put away their weapons, as the crowd shouts that they agree, and the royals run away. A man shouts and rants for several seconds at a man and a woman for refusing to pay for a sea creature’s horn and turning monster-hunting over to the navy; the man and the woman belittle him for saving another ship and its captain instead of killing a creature and they order his arrest, but another man stops the arrest at gunpoint by pleading for another chance and this is granted. A man shouts in pain as he tries to break a large spear over his knee several times.
 We hear about many sea monsters killing people and see line drawings of them on maps of the world, including a giant octopus, a huge whale with a horn, a giant squid and something with a large mouth filled with sharp teeth. We hear that a sea monster killed an orphan’s parents and see the orphan telling other orphans’ stories about monster hunters’ heroics, by candlelight in an orphanage for monster hunters’ children; the children are reprimanded for not being in bed by a matron that yells at them. Many characters mention a ship and how everyone aboard died while fighting monsters.
 The monster hunters’ motto is, “Live a great life, die a great death” and we hear it several times. Two men argue several times, and a man and a little girl argue several times. A man argues with a large creature that growls at his words, and a young girl intervenes to make them stop. A man and a woman yell for several seconds at two men and a young girl in different scenes. A man says he will kill a creature several times, but does not harm it. A man throws a book against a wall and screams. The end credits include a sea shanty about a man who guts and kills monsters, drinks a lot, and once killed the same man 50 times.
 A man visits a woman to purchase a poison potion that she makes from glowing powder; the woman has a giant pointed nose, slanted eyes, ragged long gray hair, she cackles like a witch and she sells him a harpoon launcher for shooting a poison-tipped harpoon and the man vows to kill every living thing in the sea. A small creature with a swollen belly lies beside a lot of fish skeletons and groans (implying that it ate too much). Many huge eels with glowing eyes swim by a ship.

The Sea Beast LANGUAGE 2

 – 1 anatomical term, 3 mild obscenities, name-calling (rum gagger, devil, demons, fish killers, coward, lubbers, dumb, fool, stupid, beast, donkey, infernal, Captain Someday), exclamations (bloody, bollocksed, whoo, ugh), 3 religious exclamations (e.g. by God, by the powers, hand of God). | profanity glossary |

The Sea Beast SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man pours wine from a carafe into two short glasses and he and another man drink them, a tavern scene includes several trays of foaming ale as a man says, “Drinks are on us” and a few adults sip from tankards, a man coughs and spits ale across a table, a young girl picks up a full tankard of ale and a man takes it from her, several kegs of ale are tapped and foam spews out as we see tankards of foamy ale carried around on trays on a ship, and a man and a woman drink from an unlabeled pint bottle that appears to be whiskey.

The Sea Beast DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Propaganda, lies, finding the truth, far right-wing politics, power, greed, manipulating history to control a population, people who are different, honor codes, family, loyalty, protecting minorities, animal cruelty, freeing the wrongly accused, hero-worship.

The Sea Beast MESSAGE

 – Learn how to recognize fake news and political propaganda.

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