The Grand Budapest Hotel: parents' guide

Mostly cartoonish, punctuated by sudden gore: fingers chopped off in a door, a severed head pulled from a basket, guards stabbed and strangled in a prison break, a poisoning, and a cat thrown from a window and shown dead.

Frequent profanity: more than a dozen f-words by one count, plus s-words, "goddamn," "asshole," "prick," "bitch" and a homophobic slur, often delivered for comic effect by a refined character.

A split-second image implies oral sex, an elderly woman is seen topless in bed, a couple strip each other before a cutaway, and there's an erotic painting, nude photos in a cell and a man's bare backside in a shower.

Constant social drinking of cocktails, wine and champagne, frequent cigarette and pipe smoking in period style, and a hit man who swigs from a flask. No drug use is shown.

A fanged hit man with skull-shaped brass knuckles stalks the heroes, there are motorcycle and ski chases, a prison break, and shocking glimpses of gore that arrive without warning.