Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A powerful gangster keeps a handful of enslaved females. They are shown in highly revealing outfits.

  A woman is captured by a slug-like villain and it is subtly implied that she is forced to become his sex slave. He is shown trying to lick her face before the scene cuts away. Later she is made to wear a bikini-like outfit and is chained to sit lying against him.

  In a dance scene scantly clad women are seen dancing. In one shot, one can see a exposed breast.

• Violence

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  Luke throws a skull at a gate switch. Then a huge creature is impaled with the gate spikes, no blood is shown.

  A bad guy falls into the Sarlacc.

  A large space battle has spacecrafts being destroyed on both sides of the war.

  A land battle has several aliens and people shot and killed (no blood).

  Two people are shot or grazed in the arm and hand in great detail.

  A lightsaber fight between two main characters ends with one's hand being dismembered: no blood.

  Uniformed combatants are attacked or killed by large machines' laser fires or are beaten and battered by Ewoks.

  While punishing somebody, a man is lifted up off his feet by a third party, pulled away from his victim as he grunts, and tossed over some railing into a deep shaft. Screaming as he is falling, he explodes nearer toward the bottom of the shaft.

  A man briefly fistfights with an enemy before flipping him over his back.

  The rancor is released from its cage (very grotesque looking) and eats a pig guard. No blood, but the guards body is shown being eaten onscreen. Intense.

• Profanity

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  2 incomplete utterances of "What the f--k?", and a very brief & easy-to-miss f-word by Luke towards the end when he is being electrocuted nearly to death by the emperor.

• Intense Scenes

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  While this is the most lighthearted Star Wars film, it's also one of the most emotional, too.

  A slave is dropped into the pit with the rancor. She has a horrified look on her face and trembles in fear as she sees the rancor. The rancor then eats her alive. We see half of her body crushed in the rancor's mouth and then we hear her screams of pain off screen.

  Suggested MPA Re-Rating: PG-13 for Intense Sci-Fi Action Violence, and Brief Strong Language.

  Luke and his friends are led to the pit of a giant desert monster to be fed alive. Luke is the first to walk the plank to drop from a small craft, but with his friends in position to help him, he twists and uses the plank as a springboard to jump back and begin the battle against Jabba the Hutt's gang.

  Emperor Palpatine has a deformed visage, and he has a creepy voice.