Captain Lighting Man

**Captain Lighting Man** is a 3D-animated superhero action film based on the character and stories of Captain Marvel.

## Synopsis

Captain Marvel starts up the Marvel Family to take on Mister Mind and his Monster Society of Evil.

## Parents Guide

### Sex & Nudity

* A teenager enters a strip club when he is disguised as an adult man. While no nudity is shown, another boy asks him if he saw any 'boobies or nipples'.
* There is also some mild comic innuendo about a wizard's magic staff.
* There is a reference to chlamydia and jokes about large age gaps.

### Violence & Gore

* There are frequent scenes of moderate violence, including fistfights, gunfights, use of bladed weapons, and fantastical action between superpowered beings resulting in bloody facial injuries. When monsters are hit with thunderbolts and blasts from a fantastical gun, the impact causes small blood spurts to erupt. There are slashes and stabbings resulting in brief sight of blood.
* At one point a man is executed, by being shot in the back of his head. There are undetailed scenes of implied execution by gunshot and sword strike.
* There is a torture sequence in which a man is zapped with lighting in order to make him give up information, but this is quickly interrupted by people trying to rescue him.
* In one scene a supervillain uses metal claws to punch through a man's stomach, with sight of blood spray on impact.
* A villain stabs a prisoner and throws him from a ledge, with resulting bloody detail.
* One man shoots another in the belly, also with resulting bloody detail.
* A child is hit in the chest by a bowman's arrow.
* People are hypnotized by dark magic which causes them to throw themselves into the ocean and off of buildings.
* There are scenes in which superheroes are impaled on metal pipes.
* A superhero extracts information from prisoners by dropping them from a height; they are caught by another superhero before they hit the ground.
* Other sequences depict large scale attacks in which cars, planes, and buildings are bombed and explode, and some deaths caused by toxic gas.
* Bloody images feature in the aftermath of violent events, including a shooting, and when people sustain injuries as vehicles are tossed around. Bloody injury includes a man removing a sharp piece of metal from his body. There are further bloody images during a scene depicting a surgical procedure. After a monster is badly burned, there is sight of its gory and burned corpse. There is occasional focus on bloodied blades, or blood on hands and clothes. A superhero rips a supervillain in half, causing lava to flow from the injury. There is sight of a severed arm. A soldier is melted by a superhero's fantastical powers. There is close-up sight of the charred corpse of a villain. There is also brief sight of dead bodies lying on the ground. A character is swept away by a vast wave of blood during a hallucination. A man's nose and mouth are bloody after falling from a height. A brief scene in a video game shows an alien bursting out of a troll's chest before eating its body open with bloody detail, and another character being swept away by a wave of blood.
* There is implied suicide with sight of a silhouetted hanging body. References are made to a man taking his own life by poisoning.
* There is a scene in which two bullies repeatedly kick a disabled teenager, but the impacts are not clearly shown and their behaviour is not condoned.

### Profanity

* There is infrequent strong language ('f\*\*k'), bleeped uses of the aforementioned strong language, as well as full use of milder terms including 'bitch,' 'pussy,' 'prick,' 'tits,' 'shit', 'screw', 'dick' and 'crap'. There is also use of the rude middle finger gesture.

### Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking

* There is frequent sight of adults drinking and smoking.
* There is a brief reference to criminals being "on drugs".
* Teenage characters try beer but spit it out.

### Frightening/Intense Scenes

* There are frequent and sustained scenes of horror and supernatural threat, including jump scares, ghostly apparitions and demonic beings with glowing red eyes, people being chased and attacked by axe-wielding demons, and skeletal figures emerging from the ground. Children are sometimes the focus of these scary moments, and in one scene a child and others must escape from a supernatural pit filled with sharks, snakes, and crocodiles. There is often an emphasis on action and thrills during these scenes, along with moments of humour. It is implied that a creature eats a man's head, but no detail is shown. Other scenes of threat include people threatened with guns, knives, or magical torture, and a scene in which the hero saves people from a plane dangling off a cliff.
* A Nazi villain tries to indoctrinate other characters into Nazi ideology, expressing discriminatory views concerning Jewish and Black people, and creating absurd anti-Semitic propaganda. This includes characterisations of Jewish people as monsters. The villain also uses anti-Semitic language such as 'Jewy cow' and 'dirty Jew'. Discrimination is strongly condemned and not condoned by the work as a whole.
* There are images of slave labor in an underground mine where people are strung up by chains and locked in stocks.
* The film deals with issues of mental illness in a manner some viewers might find upsetting.
* The film also includes elements showing civil unrest and terrorism, which viewers might find find disturbing.
* Grief following the loss of loved ones is a theme of the film, with characters becoming tearful as they recall stories and discuss their feelings. The theme is handled sensitively.
* A man steps in a tar pit, crocodiles and sharks swim around the area and the man and a young boy cling onto gargoyles attached to the walls; they climb up the wall while chased by snapping crocodiles and sharks until they reach the ceiling.
* Billy sees a reflection in a mirror of him decapitated; when he wipes away dust covering the mirror we see him alive before Envy throws a large razor blade at him and shatters the mirror, he falls down a ladder and crashes onto the floor below followed by a chest and the large razor blade landing between his legs as he looks alarmed.
* The Marvel Family gather in a boot hill as the Seven Deadly Sins swirl around them; Gluttony calls for a soul to join them and tries to convince a Freddy, upon which Captain Marvel steps toward Gluttony and a grave opens in the ground. Gluttony is restrained with glowing strands that pull him into the hole before Captain Marvel kicks him in the head and he vanishes into the hole before being buried alive.
* Envy swings a large razor blade towards a man as he runs away.
* A hand grabs a woman by the throat; she falls to the floor and coughs.
* Gluttony shoves its way into a man’s head and we see the man's features stretching unnaturally.
* A man falls to the floor holding his head and seizing as one of the Sins moves toward him (it is said that he is having a stroke).
* Three people open a hatch in a crematory and Freddy climbs through it and finds many gravestones, as well as a Golden Scorpion resting on a crushed, emaciated skull; giant spiders and insects crawl out from under Golden Scorpion when it is lifted. This causes Captain Marvel's mouth and nose to bleed and he speaks in a deep and threatening voice; he moves toward Mary Marvel as she tries to take the Golden Scorpion away from him, his face becomes veiny and gray, and the two superheroes fight briefly before Mary Marvel throws the Golden Scorpion into a fireplace and it melts.
* A remark is made about someone suffering from a mental illness before committing suicide.

Rated PG-13 for strong violence and scary action, bloody images, strong language, suggestive content, thematic elements, smoking, and some disturbing behavior.

BBFC 12 for moderate violence, threat, horror, bloody images, discrimination, infrequent strong language, sex and suicide references, upsetting scenes, references to mental illness