Parents Guide for
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) More at IMDbPro »

Rated R for Strong Violent Sci-fi Action throughout and language.

3/10

At the beginning, the T-101 is shown nude breifly, but only his chest, back, and his butt are shown.

Robert Patrick's character is shown nude and you can see his butt very briefly.

A man walks into a bar nude (no nudity shown). A couple of ladies look him up and down.

A guard at a mental institute licks Sarah Connor's face while she is restrained to a bed, presumably to see if she is awake.

Sarah's clothes are thin.

8/10 right on the line between PG-13 violence (with just a bit more blood shed) and minor R violence.

At the beginning, many soldiers are shot by machines. (not graphic) PG

There is a bar fight at the beginning. A man is burned, another is stabbed, and many bones are broken. PG-13

A man knocks out a police officer and takes his clothes and his car. PG

Two men shoot at each other in a hallway. PG/PG-13

A truck explodes with a man in it. But the man melts into mercury and forms back into his human form. PG/PG13

A woman's arm transforms into a sword-like weapon and stabs a man through a milk carton and through his mouth. She pulls it out and blood spurts. R

The T-1000 kills a dog and rips off it's collar, blood is seen on the collar. PG13

An officer is stabbed in the eye by the T-1000. R

A guard at a mental institute is hit on the face by a broom that was broken in half, blood spurts. R

Sarah Connor breaks a mans arm and puts a syringe in his neck that is filled with poison. She does not empty the poison into him though. PG-13

T-101 shoots an officer in the leg, he later fights officers in a hallway of a mental institute. PG13 (Comical)

In a deleted scene, Sarah Connor cuts the T-101's scalp to get a memory chip. Pretty violent, but cool for some viewers. PG-13

Sarah dreams about the world ending and things catch on fire. Sarah Connor then catches and on fire and starts screaming. An explosion disintegrates all her skin, leaving only her skeleton. This scene is very intense. PG-13

T-101 cuts the skin off his arm and rips it away to reveal his metal skeleton. Fairly bloody. PG-13

At Skynet, Dyson is shot several times. R

Sarah Connor is shot in the thigh. PG-13

T-1000 gets frozen by liquid nitrogen and shattered by a bullet. PG/PG-13

T-101 and T-1000 get in an intense fight. [/spoiler]T-1000 terminates T-101. T-101 then re-programs himself and comes back.[spoiler] PG-13

T-1000 stabs Sarah Connor in the shoulder. She screams in pain. PG-13/R

T-101 terminates T-1000 by shooting him until he falls into hot lava. PG13

You can see T-101's red eye, and the metal skeleton under his skin after the big fight scenes. PG-13

T-101 lowers himself into the hot lava. PG (Emotional, however)

8/10

Most of the R rating comes from the language in this film.

16 f-words and its derivatives (2 used with mother), 23 uses of sh**, and numerous uses of milder profanities such as damn, hell, a**, bas***d, S.O.B, di*k, bas****d, bi**ch, etc.

In the "Special Extended Edition," there are about 32 f-words, & each cuss word mentioned above is used more often.

2/10

A man in a bar is smoking a cigar.

Men force Sarah Connor to take her meds.

Sarah Connor is shown smoking a cigarette in a couple scenes.

7/10

Fair intensity, but nothing to suspenseful

The terminators can be frightening.

At the end of the main titles the terminator's face could scare or be frightening to some viewers.

Two guards force a woman in a mental institute to take her meds by beating her and shocking her.

John Connor is chased by T-1000. An intense sequence, especially when the robot pursues the boy with a large semi truck in a drainage canal while the T-800 is on a motorcycle, pursuing them to attempt to rescue the boy.

A woman's arm turns into a sword and stabs a man in the mouth. Very intense.

T-1000 kills a dog. Pretty frightening.

Sarah dreams the world ends and a bomb comes down and blows up. Everything catches on fire. Sarah Connor catches on fire and screams in pain. This scene is very frightening.

T-101 cuts the skin off his arm and rips it away to show Dyson his metallic arm.

Okay for ages 13 & up.