Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: parents' guide

Frequent shootouts, explosions and brawls with a large body count, including decapitations. Blood is mostly a yellowish ooze; a broken neck snaps back into place, and a face is torn off mostly off-camera, then shown raw and partly skeletal. Children are held in cages.

Plugged In counted one f-word, the first in a Marvel Studios film. There is also an s-word and scattered "bitch," "dick," "piss," "ass," "damn" and "hell," with "freakin'" and "friggin'" as the most common stand-ins.

No sex or nudity. Mantis makes a guard fall for Drax, who flirts chastely, and Peter longs for a version of Gamora who doesn't remember him. Some form-fitting costumes.

Peter opens the film so drunk he has to be carried out of a bar, and a teammate's reaction suggests it happens often. There are brief drug references; adults drink elsewhere.

Rocket's flashbacks show frightened caged animals, painful experiments, and his animal friends shot while he watches. Patched-together hybrid creatures are disturbing, Rocket hovers near death for much of the film, and the villain destroys a whole populated planet.