Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  Kissing between main characters, but no sex to be seen.

  When Marion takes off her bra to get changed, her back is shown in a mirror. No nudity.

  Antagonist's bottoms are briefly seen in the opening as Indy runs away on screen for about ten seconds.

  Marians underwear is seen briefly when she gets lowered into a pit.

  22 minutes in, A painting is seen in the background of a scene of many women with breasts showing.

• Violence

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  Indy has a brief fight with a man under a plane. The mans body is chopped in half by the propellers and blood is seen.

  Two men engage in a brutal fight inside a truck, one is throwing through the windshield, but he manages to climb back inside and throws the other man through the windshield, running him over with the truck offscreen.

  Indy beats up a man offscreen, and steals his clothes.

  Snakes are seen going through skeletons

  This movie contains a few gunshots and explosions.

  Near the end of the movie, flames, and bolts of energy kill Belloq, Toht, including the Nazis.

  As Indiana Jones is being entertained by a swordsman showing his sword moves in likely to attack him, he pulls out his gun and shoots him once as he drops his sword and lays dead on the ground with everyone in front of him watching.

  Indy has a dual fist fight against a shirtless man, Marion goes in the ground aircraft and opens fires to attack the soldiers, some explosions are seen, as some soldiers are knocked to the ground from the gunshot impacts.

  A man is skewered by a booby trap; we see his bloody remains in a "jump moment". There are spears going through his head, and his body. It is slightly graphic, and fairly bloody, but we see it for about a second.

  A man's body is revealed to have many poison darts in its back. His shirt has bloodstains around the wounds. Bloody.

• Profanity

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  A few uses each of "Damn", "God", "Goddamn", and "Hell." One use each of "Bastard" "Son of a bitch" "Christ" and "Jesus." One use of "Shit".

• Intense Scenes

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  A snake slithers through a skeletons mouth.

  Indy falls into a pit of snakes. Anyone with a phobia of snakes can find this scary.

  Two men enter a cave and find some big, tarantula-like spiders on one of their shoulders. In a few seconds it turns out one of them is completely covered in them. They get rid of them easily and no-one is hurt, but this scene can be pretty intense to those with arachnophobia.

  In Marion's bar, Toht orders her seized and approaches her with a red-hot poker to torture for the artifact he wants. For a few baited seconds, Toht is in a closeup relishing the agony is about to inflict, until the poker is suddenly ripped away by Indiana Jones with his bullwhip.

  A man's hand is burned lightly after touching a piece of warm metal (relic). The aftermath of his hand is shown later.

  A man is sliced by a planes blades; it is offscreen but blood splatters on the windshield.

  Moderate/Severe for neurodivergent viewers.

  Probably the most emphasized scene is the criminal archaeologists opening the box, and the ghosts/spirits show up and their faces melt off.

  The fist fight between Indiana Jones and a shirtless boxer man is very intense.

  The first scene is fairly frightening and intense, where Indy finds a man with spears through his body and runs from a moving boulder, among other things.