Aliens - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A space marine says people on colony need to be rescued from their virginity.

  Brief female nudity displayed on a wall, via several magazine centrefolds plus magazine posters.

  At 18.41 minutes, Sigourney Weaver is seen In her sleep pod, awakening from her deep sleep. Sigourney Weaver is shown wearing only her blue hipster bikini underwear, and her blue tank top. Her thick black pubic hair (OR her merkin) is very visible on her right leg near her blue hipster bikini underwear.

• Violence

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  Moderate action violence throughout with death scenes (some offscreen) that contain little or mild blood spurts. No gore or violent death details.

  A baby Xenomorph is burned to death by a flamethrower.

  An alien attacks a woman offscreen, but you see blood splattering on the windows of the cockpit she was in.

  Dead corpses are seen wrapped in cocoons; a chestburster alien rips through a living woman's chest. Some blood pours out, although not as much as the chestburster from the first movie.

  A woman has a dream that an alien bursts out of her; the alien can be seen under her skin just before she wakes up.

  Several times, people are killed both on and offscreen with minimal blood.

  A Marine character is seized by an alien and in a panic, discharges her flamethrower, setting her comrade alight. In a blind panic, he accidentally falls over a railing a plummets to his death. In the process, he drops his flaming bag of ammunition, which explodes and throws two other Marine characters. One of them is hurled into a wall and snaps his neck.

  A Marine character shoots an alien in the head.

• Profanity

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  Shit, fuck, and bitch are used sparingly alongside lesser profanity like ass.

• Intense Scenes

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  There is one intense scene where Ripley and the girl are both in mortal danger of being "impregnated" by a crab-like creature that crawls around in an empty laboratory while they sleep.