Dune: Part Two

Male-driven narrative, but women in supporting roles are quite powerful (and, in some cases, admirable). Two main characters are strong women. Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) is capable of bending others to her will, although she tends to lean toward unsavory activities. Chani (played by Zendaya, who has one Black and one White parent) is more positive; she's skilled, strong, independent. Supporting characters include Spanish actor Javier Bardem as the leader of the Fremen and Greek-Filipino American actor Dave Bautista as one of Baron Harkonnen's villainous minions. Black actor Alison Halstead plays the Maker Keeper, who's in charge of harvesting the Water of Life from young worms. She appears in just one scene, but it's an important job. The Dune films have raised concerns in the way they lean on Middle Eastern culture for world-building but don't include MENA actors. No body/size diversity, unless you count the Baron, whose grotesqueness is unfortunately tied to his larger size and eating.

Frequent sci-fi/action violence, though little is very gory. Guns and shooting; people get shot, including a villain who's shot with a high-powered weapon, goes flying, and explodes. Piles of bodies are burned with flamethrowers, and other dead bodies are shown. Many buildings and ships are blown up. Atomic warheads. Sound of women screaming; sight of two dead women in the corner of the Baron's chamber. Neck-snapping. A man slices the necks of two women to test the sharpness of his blade. Bloody wounds. Characters fall from a high cliff. Many scenes of fighting with knives and swords; characters stabbed, sliced. Martial arts fighting. Character smashes a villain's helmet and face with a large rock. A character repeatedly smashes another's head onto a control panel. Small hook punctures a person's skin. Woman goes through "water of life" ceremony, writhing in agony, blood crusted on her nose. Characters are forced to kiss others' boots. Angry mob. Visions of a famine, with people howling in pain. Birds killed with flamethrower. Slapping. Gross stuff includes vomiting.

One character lies on top of another, their faces close together, panting and out of breath; sex could be implied. Characters kiss more than once. One character appears to seduce another; dialogue about a man being "sexually vulnerable" and a woman being pregnant.

A use of "s--t," plus uses of "piss," "hell," "moron."

One character insults another by saying "you sandwalk like a drunk lizard." "Spice" is described as a drug that has good properties but is also addictive; the only side effect is that it turns users' eyes luminous blue. It's not really depicted as a substance that can be abused. It's more just "the thing" that both the heroes and villains want to get their hands on.