Why is “Sketch” rated PG? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “scary action, some violence, thematic elements, language and rude humor.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several encounters with giant monsters that we hear have menacing intentions and children and adults are threatened, monsters that resemble snakes and giant birds and spiders, several arguments, discussions of death of a parent and dealing with grief, and some strong language and name-calling. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A young girl struggles with her grief after her mother’s death and she uses a sketch book to express her anger by drawing monsters and creatures that magically begin coming to life when her sketchbook falls into a pond that seems to have special powers. Also with Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle, Kue Lawrence and Kalon Cox. Directed by Seth Worley. [Running Time: 1:33]

Sketch SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A young boy asks a young girl to be his girlfriend and she declines; he says it’s OK. A man and a woman are described as newlyweds. A boy says that people that bully you are secretly in love with you.
► A woman wears a top that reveals her bare shoulders and partial bare back.

Sketch VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A man sees what looks like blood on a closet door frame, he finds his phone smeared with red and his favorite coffee mug hidden in the back of the closet, also smeared with red; a small red creature jumps on the man, he fights it off and smashes it on the floor (we see a spray of red powder and the man has a bloody cut on his forehead). A woman finds a convenience store in disarray and a man working there says the store was robbed; they both turn and run away when something approaches the counter and we hear deep growling. Something sits by the side of a pond and draws pictures of monsters, drops them in the pond, the water bubbles and monsters emerge and walk through the woods (giant snakes, creatures with claws and spikes on their arms, etc.). A young boy is pinned to the ground by a monster and he sprays it with a flame that melts it (because it was drawn with crayon) and it drips on the boy’s face as he screams; it wraps a strand of something from its mouth around the boy’s throat until a young girl sprouts tendrils from her arms and pulls the monster off the boy and the boy uses a glowing sword to cut the monster’s arm off. Several large monsters chase a boy through woods and he hides in a tent, but is attacked by a small creature and he screams. A large monster rises up into the air, a woman hits it with a weed trimmer, and a man hits it again using a shovel. A large snake monster lunges toward a man and a young girl uses her tendrils to pull it away. Fireworks shoot into the sky and they destroy any monsters and creatures.
► A boy runs alone through woods and hears noises, he turns around to find a small creature that spreads glowing wings and screeches (like a car alarm) as a very large monster with a big mouth filled with sharp teeth rises up and slams its mouth down toward the boy but misses three times; the boys asks, “Are you blind,” and runs away. A man drives on a road and hits something that runs in front of him; we see colorful paint on the grill of the car and a cat sits on the hood meowing, it sprouts wings and sprays a cloud of colors onto the man and a woman and runs away. A young boy opens a door and sees a room filled with small red creatures that skitter on walls and the ceiling, several jump on him and another boy hits him in the face twice to knock the creatures off his face; a young girl opens the door and many of the creatures pour out of the room as the girl runs into a bathroom, wraps herself in a shower curtain and turns on the shower to wash the creatures down the drain; two young boys spray creatures with water guns and one uses a garden hose.
► A school bus driver stops on a two-lane road when she sees what she thinks is a car crashed in the oncoming lane and we see splatters of blue paint on the road and the car; a giant blue monster with spider like legs stands up out of a cornfield and chases the bus as it tries to drive away, the bus is pushed off the road by the monster and crashes into a cornfield leaving the driver unconscious (no injuries are seen). A giant monster with big eyes and sharp teeth peers into the back of a school bus; it sprays confetti when it roars and tries to get into the bus through the emergency hatch on the roof as the children try to figure out how to put the monster to sleep; we hear deep snoring when calming music is played. A young boy dunks a creature into water and it dissolves. Two young boys and a young girl arm themselves with water guns and put on protective gear; one boy demonstrates a flamethrower using a lighter and a spray can.
► We hear a growling sound as a young boy walks through woods; he trips and tumbles down a hill cutting his hand (we see a bloody gash and he has blood on his shirt) and dropping his phone in a pond (we see it with a cracked screen when he retrieves it); wind blows across the pond and the boy seems unnerved. A young boy sneaks out of his house in the early morning hours and his younger sister follows him; the two children struggle over a box that holds their mother’s ashes and the girl nearly falls into a pond (the boy pulls her back away from the water’s edge). A small heart-shaped creature emerges from a hole in a tree and snaps up a small creature with a snarl.
► A man panics when he goes home to find the walls all stained with red smears and his children missing. Menacing music plays when a boy on a school bus grabs a drawing away from a girl and keeps it; we see the drawing later and it depicts a monster wrapping a long strand around a person’s (presumably the boy) throat and a large pool of blood is at their feet (labeled blood). A young girl describes things that she has drawn including a person using a parachute with no pull chord, creatures pulling out someone’s eyeballs, and taking a machete (she begins to describe a thought). A young girl describes creatures that she has drawn as Eyeders (eyeballs with spider legs) and says that they take your personal stuff like phones and coffee cups and eventually take your eyeballs; another creature is a Blood Eater that eats blood and “pukes it back out,” another is called the Tattler and it makes noises (like a car alarm) to let a blind monster know where prey is, and others stab you in the face. A young girl describes a monster stabbing you through the stomach really hard when a young boy insists that it is cutting you in half. A young girl explains that a monster has snake toes that it uses in case people don’t die when it crushes them. A young girl describes a monster eating people and taking their skin. A young girl drops her sketchbook into a pond and when she pulls it out, we see that the drawings have been washed away; we see the water bubbling up and we hear weird sounds coming from the water and surrounding area. People are shown covered with colorful paint and splatters after encountering monsters and creatures.
► A young girl becomes angry and knocks a plate of pizza onto the floor breaking the plate and a young boy tries to convince his father that it can be fixed (they argue briefly). A bus driver becomes angry with a boy on the bus and grabs his arm; the child says, “That’s child abuse.” Two boys argue and one tells the other, “You are the worst person ever.” A young boy and a young girl argue and the boy asks the girl what is wrong with her, she replies that she feels like something is wrong with her. A young boy gives a young girl a notebook and a pen and she becomes angry and throws it out a bus window; the boy yells and stands up and the bus driver reprimands him. A woman becomes frustrated with a man when he barges into his house while she is showing it to prospective buyers. A woman threatens to kill a man in front of prospective buyers if he doesn’t behave while she is showing the house. A man reprimands his young daughter and takes away her art supplies as a consequence. A young girl draws tentacles on her arms with a permanent marker and gets in trouble at school. A boy puts his hand over a girl’s mouth and she licks his hand causing him to pull away and yell. A boy tells a young girl, “I’m starting to get why you hate that kid,” referring to a young boy. A young boy says, “Everyone cool is an orphan.” A box that holds the ashes of a woman is broken and we see the ashes on the ground.
► A woman asks a young girl if she wanted something bad to happen to a boy and the child admits that she did; the woman congratulates the child for drawing her feelings instead of acting on them. Two children tell their father to give them his covenant that he won’t look in the girl’s sketchbook; the boy then tells him to forge a blood oath (he does not).
► A man opens window blinds to show a screen splattered with something that could be bird droppings and a young girl hides in her closet because she said that she heard tapping at her window all night. A man spills coffee on his daughter’s sketchbook and panics trying to dry it before his daughter comes home. A young girl complains that her brother drew something that resembles buttocks on her face (we see the drawing and her mother changes it into a butterfly. A woman considering buying a house worries when a man says that there are tons of spiders in the house. A young boy and a young girl say they have to go to the bathroom before an expedition. A boy says that he urinated in his pants twice.

Sketch LANGUAGE 3

 – 3 scatological terms, 18 anatomical terms (3 “B-hole”), 5 mild obscenities, name-calling (orphans, dumb [anatomical term deleted], morphans, bastards, jerk, crazy, exhausting, Eyeders, terrible, disgusting, evil, stupid, witch, nerds, incredibly boring), exclamations (what is your deal, back off, wow, jeez, what the heck, shut-up, calm down, what the…, oh my gosh, no worries, my goodness), 3 religious exclamations (e.g. oh God, my God). | profanity glossary |

Sketch SUBSTANCE USE

 – None.

Sketch DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Death of a parent, dealing with grief, anger, maternal orphans, cults, creative expression, Minecraft, Zelda.

Sketch MESSAGE

 – You cannot control how external forces will impact you, you can only control how you deal with them.