Waltz with Bashir: parents' guide

Sustained wartime violence: firefights, shelling, soldiers killed in an ambush, a veteran remembering shooting dogs, and a boy who fires a rocket-propelled grenade gunned down. It ends with real news footage of massacre victims' bodies, including a child.

Infrequent but strong. Movieguide counted seven obscenities, including some f-words, and Common Sense also notes 'a--hole.' Most dialogue is in Hebrew with English subtitles.

Soldiers watch a porn video that the film animates explicitly, with intercourse in several positions. A dream shows a soldier lying on a giant naked woman, and there is other full male and female nudity, plus characters in underwear.

Brief: a veteran the director visits in the Netherlands smokes what appears to be a marijuana joint. Soldiers and adults drink, sometimes to drunkenness, and characters smoke cigarettes.

Haunting throughout: the film opens with a pack of snarling dogs charging through city streets in a veteran's nightmare, the war scenes are surreal and tense, and the real massacre footage at the end is deeply disturbing.