There is one fight scene where a character uses her dog as a weapon. It's clearly a prop being swung and kicked around, but there are still barks, growls, and yelps for the duration, so it could be hard to watch/listen to for some viewers. To be fair, it's unclear whether the dog dies from this, as I don't believe it appears again.
Pretty much all three layers of the generational trauma going on reconcile with each other (although it appears that at least in one universe Joy leaves in anger)
well, in the literal sense no, not that i can remember, but due to multiverse shenanigans there are many scenes where characters are left in the dark about whats really happening or mislead because of it. so literally not at all, just more like "my husband absolutely would not believe me if i told him his alternate dimension self just pulled me into another dimension and then died so i think ill just. lie about whats up with me" if that messes with anyone.
to be clear, the monkeys that people are commenting on is a purely comedic 2001 Space Odyssey-esque parody scene of prehistory with a bunch of people in very obviously bad prehistoric primate costumes and one is comedically beating another. it is truly not upsetting.
in the universe where everyone has sausage fingers, a character tries to put their fingers in another character's mouth (which is established to be a mating ritual in this universe), and the other character reacts with disgust
A character has to give himself paper cuts between his fingers in order to use a certain ability. This only happens one time, and while it's not particularly graphic, there is a moment after the last one where you can see blood droplets at the corner of the screen, as if it has splattered onto the camera. Could still be upsetting for some viewers.
Not in the literal head-cut-off way, but one of the antagonist's reality-warping murders involves making a person's head transform into a cloud of glitter, leaving a headless corpse behind.
As mentioned in another section there is a universe where people have sausages for fingers and although we dont see the characters eating each other's fingers, they playfully put them in each other's mouths and mustard and ketchup appear
The hot dog finger universe could qualify. It's in a lot of promotional material, so I recommend looking it up and not watching the movie if you don't like it because it's featured pretty heavily
Not squashed, per se, but there is a scene when the antagonist appears to blow up a character's brain inside their head, and it cuts to the character dead with blood on their face. The act is shown through a somewhat ambiguous animation, but it could still be a bit graphic for some viewers.
There's a scene where people are cartoonishly fighting to put butt plugs up their butts but there's no explicit or implied mutilation or trauma involved.
Early on in the film a character's neck is snapped to kill him. It's relatively easy to predict when it happens, so viewers have a chance to avoid seeing if it's distressing to them.
In addition to the character who gives himself paper cuts between his fingers, there are also recurring scenes of a universe that a character creates by accident where humans have hot dogs for fingers. It's mostly comedic, and not necessarily mutilation, but the visual and sound design of the fingers moving could still be disturbing for some viewers.
there is a scene or two involving BDSM and kink equipment, but the guy clearly seems to enjoy it so it shouldnt be too upsetting. a girl also gets mental experiments done on her in a brief scene but she clearly looks in pain for a few seconds
Not sure where the one yes came from because there’s some sexual content but nobody in the film (outside from flashbacks) is under the age of 18 or so. Joy and her girlfriend in particular are at least old enough to drink
kinda but also kinda not. characters get "possessed" by their selves from alternative universes, as this is how universe jumping is achieved. this does really disorient+disturb the characters who get taken over at points.
NOT SAFE! there are a bunch of times where someone gags, but these are the only two times it actually happens -
at 14 minutes, during the life rewind part, when evelyn calls her father, she sits down and puts her hand on her mouth, it then cuts to a quick scene of her vomiting, its shown from behind her and you can still see it visually (not too much), you definitely hear it.
at 1 hour and 24 minutes, evelyn and waymond are talking and jobu tupaki arrives, evelyn gets ready to fight and tupaki says "you still cant see whats happening", evelyn then sees more universes, vomits, and collapses, you see it clearly.
Cops and security guards are frequent enemies/opponents, and one scene depicts the protagonist as a prisoner fighting back against the antagonist as a prison guard.
One of the alternate universes has a couple of scenes that take place in a jail. One of the very quick montages has a shot of a character in an orange jumpsuit but it goes by extremely fast
Uh yeah [SPOILERS] Evelyn outs her daughter to the grandfather after spending a good chunk of the film debating on if she should come out. Now thankfully he’s cool with Joy and her girlfriend, but Joy is still rightfully upset in the moment
There is a scene where in another universe a character's eyes are being operated on as she stabbed them. another scene where in an experimental facility a child is being monitored while she performs implied excruciating tasks that eventually results in the child becoming the antagonist
Not in the way of mental health issues, but worldjumping and connecting to other worlds and versions of oneself is having similar results of dissociation, derealization and depersonalization.
The yes vote is probably because some things here could be interpreted as a metaphor for DID, and not a particularly accurate one. But nobody literally has DID, and DID isn’t used as a twist at the end or anything. Movie is pretty understanding toward mental illness in general
In addition to the points already noted, at one point the movie creates a deliberate confusion about which events are 'actually' happening and which are fictional within the story (part of a movie some of the characters are watching).
At an hour and a half in, there's a scene (starting when Evelyn holds a baseball bat) that's nearly a minute of flashing shots of Michelle Yeoh, who also screams for the last few seconds of that sequence. It's startling and could prove overwhelming, especially in IMAX.
yes, mostly in "blink and youll miss it" scenes. nothing is shown super explicitly, like in one scene you only see the mother's screaming face, and in the other you only see through the babies eyes as the father is given the baby.
As a Chinese language speaker who was raised culturally Chinese, the character is absolutely misgendered and the mom's claim that it's about Chinese language is gaslighting.
Evelyn makes several comments to Joy and Becky about their weight, but it's more to highlight the lack of understanding than to use weight as a punchline.
I mean the worst you can say about its depiction of Chinese-Americans is that the main characters run a laundromat but even that’s more a reflection of the fact that it’s a struggling immigrant business. In general the film plays around with and subverts common Asian stereotypes such as Weymound being very meek and not super masculine but his philosophy on empathy comes through in the end
No actual slurs or insults are used, but there are multiple instances of a character expressing disapproval that her daughter is dating another girl. She eventually learns to accept it, however, and introduces her daughter's girlfriend to a relative with pride.
There are many anal plug/ dildo scenes, plug insertion scenes, 2 men walk around with anal plugs inside them. A man is killed in a fight with 2 very large double dildos. This is narrated by the protagonist and shown in slow motion, so you can't miss it. The toys and sex acts are not blurred out. Maybe some countries blur it. Mine did not. Several times a man on the side lines is masturbating. A couple is having sex. There is a sex room/ dungeon. Ball gags, there are about 5 scenes related to the sex toys, that secret sex room and BDSM. This is a movie for adults.
One of the high ranking IRS employees has a secret BDSM dungeon that the heroes use to try to hide at one point and during the Empathy fight sequence Evelyn tries to resolve the employee’s issues via bondage stuff
i have no idea what the top comment is referring to. theres no chronic illness, physical or mental. it is literally never stated or even implied someone has a chronic mental illness. headcanons don’t count.
Jamie Lee Curtis is not wearing a fat suit. Many people assumed that she was, but she and the directors have confirmed it’s her real body without shapewear
some aus of evelyn have her almost being hitten by a car, however its cut off directly before she’s actually hit OR she manages to quickly dodge the car.
theres also a scene where the vehicle alpha!waymond is in crashes