Shotgun Wedding | 2022 | R | – 3.6.6

Why is “Shotgun Wedding” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language and some violence/bloody images.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an attempted seduction with some kissing, a few kissing scenes, discussions of infidelity and sex addiction, a few scenes of people being shot at and threatened by armed people that invade an island wedding, a man being killed during a fight with blood shown, a man being thrown into the blades of a helicopter and killed, a man being thrown out of a helicopter, a man burned on the head and face, a few near falls from heights, several arguments, and nearly 20 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When a couple’s (Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel) island destination wedding is derailed by pirates, they find themselves questioning their recent choices. Also with Lenny Kravitz, Jennifer Coolidge, Sonia Braga, Cheech Marin, Steve Coulter, D’Arcy Carden, Callie Hernandez, Desmin Borges, Selena Tan and Alberto Isaac. Directed by Jason Moore. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in Spanish with English subtitles and a few lines in Balinese, with some translation. [Running Time: 1:40]

Shotgun Wedding SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A woman climbs in bed and poses seductively, asking her fiancée to have sex (we see her bare legs to the hips and bare her abdomen when she pulls the leg of her shorts up; she removes her shorts and stands near the man trying to seduce him, she poses provocatively pretending to try to reach something on a high shelf and when he helps her, they kiss and he places her on the bed where they kiss and are interrupted by his mother coming into the room. A husband and his wife sleep in bed together.
► A video is shown and we see a man and a woman kissing passionately; the woman is in a relationship with another man. A man and a woman kiss after they are married. A man and a woman kiss loudly, smooching in front of people at a party and in front of the man’s ex-wife. People kiss on the cheeks as a greeting in a couple of scenes.
► A married man says that he slept with a woman who was not his wife and his wife says that she also had an affair; the woman goes on to say that the other woman had a sex addiction and talks about “weird sex stuff.” A woman says that she slept with a man (both guests at a wedding). A woman says that another woman asked where she could charge her vibrator and a man makes a sexual reference. People talk about a woman’s ex-fiancé being invited to her wedding. A woman says that another woman asked her what her love language is. A man talks about a woman breaking off their engagement.
► A woman’s wedding gown reveals deep cleavage and bare shoulders. A woman wears a short and low-cut dress that reveals cleavage, shoulders and bare legs to the upper thighs. A man’s shirt hangs open to reveal his bare chest and abdomen. A woman retrieves a cell phone from her underwear (we don’t see nudity).

Shotgun Wedding VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A man and a woman climb a tall tower and are shot at by gunmen chasing them; they glide along a cable to get away, the woman drops a grenade on two men shooting at them on the ground and they are blown up (we see the explosion and flames and later see rubble). A man and a woman fight with two pirates: the woman shoots at one pirate as he runs away and a man bats a live grenade toward him, blowing him up in the distance and setting off fireworks. Two men fight on a dock, a woman and one of the men speed away in a speedboat and the other man jumps off the dock and pulls himself onboard; he shoots a flare gun at the other man (he deflects the flare with a life jacket) and the two men fight, are pulled into the air by a parasail, they continue to fight until one man glides down the cable to the boat and the cable is cut sending the other man into the blades of a helicopter flying next to him killing him and causing the helicopter to crash into the ocean (we see blood splatter).
► People invading an island put masks on their faces and load weapons, they shoot their guns into the air and people on a beach preparing for a wedding scream and try to run away; the people are gathered and taken to a pool where they are told to get into the water and one man is shot in the arm when he tries to run away (we see blood on the wound). A gunman punches a man and he falls back onto a table, a woman tries to hit the gunman and she is thrown onto a bed; the man and the woman are then shown with their hands bound together as the gunman radios that the two have been found. A gunman charges toward a man and a woman, the two men fight, the gunman pulls a grenade, they wrestle and he is kicked and falls hitting his head on a rock (we see blood) and the other man says that he is dead. A woman lights a cigarette and presses the glowing hot tip to a man’s head and it catches fire (he had been sprayed with hairspray earlier); the man and another man (both with flames on their heads) jump out of a moving vehicle and run away while the woman and a man try to stop the vehicle before it drives over a cliff, and when they manage to get out, the woman’s long gown gets stuck on the bumper and she is pulled dangerously close to the edge before freeing herself and other gunmen shoot at them as the vehicle crashes over the cliff. An armed person stands over an unconscious woman on the floor and when the woman wakes up a man jumps the gun person and they fight: the armed person jumps on the man and he slams the person into a plate glass knocking them out. A man holds another man with a pin to his eye threatening to hurt him if people are not let go; the threatened man frees himself by head-butting the other man and he is later struck in the face with a gun (we see some blood on his face).
► A man says that he wants to kill a man and a woman and we see that he has been badly burned on the side of his head (charred and reddened flesh is shown). A woman tries to cut zip ties using a wedding cake knife, and a man then decides to try a meat slicer and cuts himself (we see the cut and blood and the woman is sprayed with blood and faints). A woman carrying a gun comes out of a hatch and shoots the weapon, accidentally shooting a woman (the woman is not killed; we see some blood). A woman pushes a man out of a flying helicopter and we see him fall toward the ocean below. A man puts his hand over a woman’s mouth when she yells about a situation and gunmen are searching for them; a gunman punches a door open and another shoots a door open.
► A woman grips a live grenade for an extended period. A woman arms herself with a gun and a cake knife. A man tries to persuade gunmen to stop and he is threatened with a gun. A man climbs out of a hatch that leads to a bunker where other people are hiding; he calls to the gunmen that take him away at gunpoint. A man threatens a woman at gunpoint and takes her away in a helicopter to find other people. A man climbs onto the back of a motorboat from a pier and a security guard approaches him, calls out while pointing a gun at the man, startling him, and the man falls into the water. A woman screams when she fears that her son and his fiancée fell in a ditch. A man and a woman argue and he accuses her of lawyering herself out of any real responsibility; the woman slaps the man in the face and he complains that she cut him with her ring (we don’t see any injury).
► A woman complains that she cannot breathe when she cannot get out of her wedding gown. A woman says, “Just shoot me.” A woman talks about someone being decapitated by a forklift. A man mocks another man for being cut from a baseball team and that he is unemployed at the age of 40. A man speaks a line of dialogue in Balinese (or Indonesian) and we are told that it is a crude insult. A woman says that someone got Lyme disease and cannot wear sandals. A man exclaims that he is sick (we do not see anything). A man says, “I think I’m gonna throw up” (he does not). A man complains that a cut on his hand has left a “loose flap.”
► A woman retrieves a cell phone from her underwear (we don’t see nudity). We hear a loud blast like a gunshot with the opening credits (it does not appear to be a gun).

Shotgun Wedding LANGUAGE 6

 – About 19 F-words, 4 sexual references, 13 scatological terms, 7 anatomical terms, 11 mild obscenities, name-calling (groomzilla, messy, corny, lifesaver, hero, gaslighter, cranky, rich idiots, monster, weird, stupid, bad liar, sneaky little [mild obscenity deleted]), exclamations (wow, jeez, shut her up, relax, shhh, whoa, oh, easy), 1 religious profanity (GD), 39 religious exclamations (e.g. oh God, oh my God, God, Holy Ghost, I swear to God, Jesus, oh thank God, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Shotgun Wedding SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman drinks from a bottle of champagne, and a woman says that she drank a lot of champagne and ate some weed gummies. A woman asks for a cigarette and lights it.

Shotgun Wedding DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Weddings, family, relationships, doubts, misunderstandings, money, greed, infidelity, sex addiction, self-sabotage, control, insecurity, jealousy, pirates.

Shotgun Wedding MESSAGE

 – It’s important to tell your partner about the things that are really important to you.