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Ponyo (2008)

Parents guide

Ponyo

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    None
  • Violence & Gore:
    None
  • Profanity:
    None
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    None
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Mild

Sex & Nudity

None
52 of 57 found this to have none
None. This is a G-rated picture.
A girl hugs a boy tightly and rubs her face against his

Violence & Gore

None
35 of 44 found this to have none
A woman drives her son along the highway at the edge of the sea during a storm; she drives recklessly, the car skids to a stop and she and her little boy exit, but the wind blows the boy over the rail and toward the sea (he is caught).
A mother and small boy in a car nearly run head-on into a van on a narrow winding road.
A five-year-old boy uses matches to light a candle three times and burns his finger once and yells "Ouch!"
A mother leaves her 5-year-old son and his same-aged female playmate home alone late at night and the boy becomes afraid when the mom does not return.
A boy and girl (both 5 years old) walk through a long, dark tunnel and halfway through she begins to turn into a fish and collapses; the boy cries, and carries her out to the shoreline, and he dunks her in the water to revive her (she awakens).
Several short scenes feature family arguments:
A husband and his wife argue over the phone and by signal beacon, and she slams the phone down and later slams a pot of greens into a sink.
A girl-fish argues several times with her human father about living on land and he locks her in a bubble; she escapes, and this is repeated three times.
An old woman in a nursing home screams when a little boy shows her a goldfish with the face of a little girl; the old woman screams that it is bad luck and the fish must go back to the sea.
Several scenes depict dark-blue, big-eyed water blobs that grumble:

Profanity

None
38 of 40 found this to have none
A few uses of Baka, which means idiot.
None. This is a G-rated picture.
17 mild obscenities ("bug off!"), 3 stereotypical comments about humans as naturally destructive, 3 religious exclamations.
Name-calling (freak show, weird, human, ugly.)

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

None
37 of 42 found this to have none
A character opens a beer can which overflows. Alcohol is not consumed.
A male human-looking character under the sea drinks elixirs from four tall bottles and from a fifth he pours a glowing golden potion and when he drinks the last drops from the bottle, he states, "I can feel the power of it down into my DNA."

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Mild
23 of 46 found this mild
There's little violence, although a few scenes during and after a climactic storm may be intense.
Some scenes in which characters seem to be missing might also be upsetting.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • Atp
  • Australia
    • G
  • Austria
    • 6
  • Belgium
    • KT/EA
  • Brazil
    • Livre
  • Canada
    • Gall jurisdictions
  • Chile
    • TE
  • Denmark
    • 7
  • Finland
    • K-3
  • France
    • Tous publics
  • Germany
    • 0
  • Greece
    • K-8
  • Hong Kong
    • I
  • India
    • U
  • Ireland
    • G
  • Israel
    • ALL
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G
  • Lithuania
    • V
  • Malaysia
    • U
  • Mexico
    • A
  • Netherlands
    • AL
  • New Zealand
    • G
  • Norway
    • 7Netflix self-rating
    • 72019, cinema rating
  • Philippines
    • G
    • 7+self-applied, Netflix rating
  • Poland
    • 7self-applied
  • Portugal
    • M/4dubbed version
    • M/6subtitled version
  • Russia
    • 6+
  • Singapore
    • G
  • South Korea
    • All
  • Spain
    • A/i
  • Sweden
    • 7
  • Switzerland
    • 0canton of Geneva
    • 0canton of Vaud
  • Taiwan
    • 0+
  • Turkey
    • 7+self-applied
  • United Kingdom
    • U
  • United States
    • Gcertificate #45429
  • United Arab Emirates
    • 7+self-applied
  • Vietnam
    • P

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