Murder Mystery 2 | 2023 | PG-13 | – 4.5.5

Why is “Murder Mystery 2” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violence, bloody images, strong language, suggestive material and smoking.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several scenes of attempted seduction and kissing, some sexual references and innuendo, several scenes of gunfire being exchanged with a few bloody injuries shown, a death by being thrown into a helicopter’s blades with blood shown, a few explosions with implied deaths, a kidnapping, many arguments, people smoking cigarettes and vapes, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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In this sequel to 2019’s Murder Mystery, when start-up private detectives (Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston) attend an island wedding looking for new clients, they become embroiled in a complicated kidnapping that takes them across the globe. Also with Mark Strong, Melanie Laurent, Jodie Turner-Smith and John Kani. Directed by Jeremy Garelick. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in French without translation. [Running Time: 1:35]

Murder Mystery 2 SEX/NUDITY 4

 – A man and a woman kiss briefly in a few scenes, and a man and a woman kiss for several seconds in one scene. A man and woman kiss each other on both cheeks many times until the man’s wife stops them. A man kisses a woman’s hand for several seconds, saying, “I have made love to 10,000 women who were not as ravishing as you”; he tries unsuccessfully to kiss her throughout the movie.
► A man tells another man, “I made love to one woman and did it terribly,” and, “For $10,000 you can have one night with her [his wife]”; as the man reaches for his wallet, the first man tells him it was a joke and calls him a rude name. We hear that a man has 85 paternity suits against him involving numerous children and he says later, “I have spread my seed far and wide.” In four different scenes, a man asks women or men to reach into his trouser pocket for keys; one man asks if he has a potato in there.
► A man moans when a woman scratches his nose for him while he is tied up on the floor. A man and a woman blow smoke rings from a vape pen that create a sexually suggestive image and the man says, “These are the rings of love.”
► A photo of a man wearing women’s underwear shows his bare buttocks and thighs and we hear that he took Ambien, dressed in his wife’s underwear, went to the hotel lobby, and urinated on a couch (we do not see urination). A woman holds up a pair of fur-covered handcuffs.
► A couple of wedding scenes show many women wearing long skirts and midriff-baring crop tops that reveal cleavage and bare shoulders. Women wear strapless or thin-strapped dresses that bare cleavage and shoulders. A woman wears a long-sleeved blouse that bares the front of her body, beneath her breasts to her waist. Many women dance at a wedding, writhing and shimmying. A few scenes include a woman wearing a long-sleeved dress that ends at the upper thighs and she keeps pulling the skirt down. A woman wears a long skirt slit up to the groin, revealing bare legs and thighs.

Murder Mystery 2 VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A kidnapper demands a ransom and people argue until a man and a woman agree to deliver the money; they are taken to the exchange point where two masked people force the couple into a van at gunpoint and a man shouts, “Chop off his hand,” as another man twirls a small axe and the man and the woman fight them with kicks and punches as the van swerves; the woman shoots one man dead and accidentally kills the other man with an axe to the top of the head (we see some blood) and the man chokes another man; the van swerves into a pole that hits the man inside the van (no injuries are seen), crashes into a restaurant shattering a window and one of the dead men falls out onto the floor. A man’s harness is tied to a tower’s elevator mechanism and he is pulled into the rotor blades of a helicopter, which explodes, spews blood and crashes into a river. A man is shot in the shoulder with a little blood showing. A man is shown with blood seeping through bandages on his shoulder and arm. A man attempts to shoot a man but another man jumps in front of the bullet and is struck in the arm (we see a spot of blood on his arm).
► A man wearing a bomb vest arrives at the Eiffel Tower, people scream, another man drops into the area wearing a harness attached to a cable and he tries to kill a number of people before a woman jumps on his back and they are pulled to the top floor of the tower; another man pursues them, three men fight each other and a woman until the woman accidentally shoots a man in the shoulder and arm, but also destroys the bomb vest detonator; men are thrown and kicked downstairs surrounded by scaffolding (no injuries are apparent), another man shoots a trench coat over a chair, thinking it is a person, a man throws a woman over a railing and fistfights a man who opens a briefcase to disperse money into the wind. A woman knocks another woman unconscious with a metal briefcase. A helicopter pilot steals a bag of money from a man and a woman at gunpoint and jumps out of the helicopter as the couple screams. A cloaked figure at a wedding follows a man riding an elephant; the rider spasms and twists, falling forward onto the animal’s head and he dies as people scream. A man is kidnapped by a cloaked figure and another man chases them to a boat dock, and throws himself to the ground as gunfire erupts from a boat.
► Two women with guns ambush a man and a woman and tie them up together; one woman shoots the other and tries to kill the couple, but is then shot herself (no blood is seen). A man shoots a gun and the bullet hits a few walls and disappears as a woman’s coat catches fire from overturned candles and the man grabs her, rushing through a shattering window and dropping into a moat unharmed. A man is seemingly killed when his car explodes in flames and smoke and we see a person walk through the flames to steal a bag of money, but is robbed by another person after being hit by a truck (no blood is seen).
► A flashback montage includes images of swords, knives, guns and a bus hitting a man (he is thrown off- screen); we hear that the montage was from an investigation case where “everybody died.” A soccer player says that he kicked an opponent in the head so hard that the opponent was in a coma and lost the ability to blink; he later kicks a man in the head during a short fistfight, and they both fall unconscious. Two women at the wedding argue and push each other back and forth. A woman carries a gun in the back of her long skirt at a wedding.
► A woman mistakes a spot on another woman’s hand for a bloody injury, but the second woman says it is henna. A TV report announces that a man and a woman are wanted for murder, theft, and kidnapping; deep-fake footage shows the man running from a wedding tent and carrying a sharp knife as people gasp and shout.
► A couple argues about alleged infidelity and the woman grabs a crossbow, clicks the bolt into position, the man shouts angrily at another couple in the room, and the scene ends. A man and a woman argue several times, sometimes loudly, throughout the film. A man at a wedding says his parents are dead but then says it’s a joke and he just hated them. After taking several Ambien and passing out, a woman wakes up and exclaims, “We got roofied.”

Murder Mystery 2 LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 10 sexual references, 29 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 12 mild obscenities, name-calling (stupid Americans, Schitzerland, Miss Minority Stockholder, rapper wannabe, disgusting pig, doofus, buffoons, harpy, bastard, rude, nonsense, psycho, weird, drunken, gold digger), exclamations (wow, jeez, shoot, oh my goodness, oh my gosh, oh boy, son of a gun, hey), 4 religious profanities (GD), 73 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, oh God, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, dear God, thank God, God’s gift, I swear to God). | profanity glossary |

Murder Mystery 2 SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man and a woman each swallow four tablets thinking they are Advil but they are Ambien and they pass out. People in different scenes hold glasses of champagne as well as cocktails but do not drink, a woman sips whiskey in a hotel room, a man drinks from a beer bottle and a woman drinks from a glass of clear liquor on a plane, a woman holds a cocktail and we do not see her drink it, empty wine glasses and an unopened wine bottle are shown on a restaurant table, a man on a phone says that there is a drunken man with him and everyone has a drunk friend (no drunk man is seen). A woman smokes a cigarette, a man smokes a hookah and coughs for several seconds, a man smokes a vape pen and creates dozens of smoke rings, and a man and a woman blow smoke rings together (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details).

Murder Mystery 2 DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Overeating (especially by Americans), body-shaming, classism, wedding ceremonies, private investigators, crime, secrets, undermining others, kidnapping, murder, money, power, anger, envy, accident proneness, not giving up.

Murder Mystery 2 MESSAGE

 – Investigating crime is complex and risky but exciting.