Information for Parents

Demolition

Demolition

Common Sense Media Age 16

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Suggests that there are many ways for people to mourn lost loved ones and that sometimes these means aren't necessarily "ordinary." Also, it's important to accept others and whatever form their mourning may take.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
A life-altering car crash kills a pivotal character. Characters are beaten to a pulp, with bloody wounds shown. Also a bloody wound from stepping on a nail. A kid shoots a gun. Blood stains on clothes. Character smashes up lots of furniture, appliances, and electronics with a sledgehammer. Toys are set on fire as a demonstration of war. Brief, verbal violent imagery.
Sex
Verbal references to having sex, oral sex, etc. The main character is shown naked, sitting on a toilet, from the side (nothing sensitive shown).
Language
"F--k" is used several times, plus "s--t," "motherf----r," "t-ts," "ass," "goddamn," "prick," "balls," "retarded," "pothead," "dyke," "idiot."
Consumerism
M&Ms are initially part of the plot. Reference to eBay. Heineken beer shown. Apple iPhones shown.
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
A teen smokes cigarettes and drinks beer. A secondary character regularly smokes pot. Minor character is a pot dealer. Social drinking. References to Ecstasy and crack.
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