An elderly minor character uses the outdated discriminatory term, 'Hottentots', on a couple of occasions. The film is set in 1910 and the man thinks he is a naval commander in charge of a ship travelling the world. Although he uses the term to describe imagined enemies, it is not directed at any other character.

There are some scenes of very mild slapstick, for example as people bang their heads on fireplaces and ceilings.

The children are briefly scared by a beggar and a barking dog as they run through some dark alleys. However, they are quickly reassured by the appearance of a friend.

There is one brief reference to suicide as characters worry about someone who has gone missing. The man quickly turns up unharmed.

Threat

Scenes of mild threat include meeting a shark with lots of sharp teeth, encountering an angler fish who tries to eat a character, and getting lost in a swarm of jellyfish. One fish also finds himself in danger when he tries to escape from a rotating fan and from a large trawler fishing net.

There is very mild bad language ('butt'). There is also one implied, but unspoken, use of 'shit' when a fish in an aquarium says that they are 'swimming in our own...' and another fish tells him to 'Shhhh’.

There is also a sad scene near the beginning of the film when one character realises that all of his young family have been taken away by a shark.

Discrimination

There is occasional use of the term 'n****r' by bigoted and unsympathetic characters in a historical context. Racist behaviour is clearly not condoned by the work.

Threat and horror

A crowd threaten to lynch someone, but are deterred before violence is committed.

Sex

A man refers to a woman kissing and holding him.

There is a scene in which a young boy is attacked, but the violence is undetailed. There are undetailed references to rape and allusions to child abuse.

Violence

There are several fight scenes featuring crunchy blows. People are slammed into cars or walls, or blasted with energy guns. A superpowered character is struck with a bus but is not seriously hurt. There is barely any injury detail beyond a few small cuts and bruises on a superhero's face.

Threat

A group of teenagers is trapped in a lift at the top of a crumbling building. The lift falls but the teens are saved. In another scene Spider-Man struggles to prevent a passenger ferry from sinking after it is cut in two. We hear people screaming but no one is hurt.

Sex

A teenager is caught using his computer for crime-fighting activity but lies that he is 'looking at porn' instead. In another scene a group of teens is overheard playing a game of 'F, Marry, Kill'.

Language

A woman exclaims, 'What the f...?', but the scene ends before the word is completed. Another scene contains bleeped-out words that are implied to be bad language. Milder terms include 'bastard', 'asshole', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'frigging', 'ass', 'crap' and 'ballsy'. There is also infrequent use of the rude 'middle finger' gesture.

Sex

There are several moderate sex references when one character taunts another about the sexual favours he might be expecting from a woman. The character uses innuendo to refer to oral sex, masturbation and sex toys with comments including a reference to a 'going down payment' and 'a bit of the cunning linguists'. There are also comments about a woman possibly dressing like a 'harlot' or 'streetwalker'.

Language

There is use of a middle finger gesture. Mild bad language includes uses of 'bitch', 'bloody', 'crap', 'piss', 'bastard', 'shit' and 'hell'.

There are some scenes of comic slapstick as a character's fake foam breasts catch fire while they're cooking and the Heimlich manoeuvre is tried on a man to comic excess.

Language

There are two non-aggressive uses of strong language (‘f**k’).

Sex

There is a scene in which underwear is seen falling to the floor implying two characters are about to have sex, although no sexual activity is shown. There are moderate sex references throughout.

There is a brief gory clip from a horror B-Movie as a woman's torso is drilled with an overly large screw; however, this is viewed by the characters on a small TV screen and is not clearly visible.

Sex

References occur between teenage characters about such matters as orgasms, breast-size, losing one's virginity, STIs, sex toys, and sexual fantasising.

There is moderate bad language, including uses of 'skank', 'bitch', 'whore' and 'twat'. Occasional drug references include the protagonist being offered a marijuana bong by a friend's parent. However, she refuses and the work as a whole does not condone drug misuse.

Violence

There are scenes in which men are shot. There is also a scene in which a hit man has his hand pinned to the counter of a bar whilst being throttled from behind with a ligature. In another scene, a man wakes up in bed, covered in blood, and with the severed head of his favourite horse in bed next to him.

There are some moderate sex and sex references, infrequent strong language (eg 'f**k'), and some racist language (eg 'nigger', 'wop' and 'guinea').

Besides a kidnapping scene where the terrified daughter is dragged screaming from under the bed where she is hiding, the film features several other scenes of strong violence - notably a cold-blooded shooting of a villain's innocent wife, a moment where the ex-spy is throttled in close-up leading to a heavy beating of a villain with a fire-extinguisher, and a fight where the ex-spy repeatedly plunges a broken bottle into the chest of a man who has slashed him with a curved knife.

The torture scene, which is longer and stronger than the same scene in the film release, involves the kidnapper being electrocuted several times by the ex-spy as he tries to force the man to reveal his daughter's whereabouts. The man is seen to judder, a spike driven is into his leg, and his face shows his agony. He is left screaming off-screen at the end of the scene when the ex-spy leaves him being electrocuted. This scene, in dwelling on the torture, exceeded the boundaries of the strong violence permitted by the '15' Guidelines which state that 'Violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury', and tipped the classification into '18'

Other scenes of gun and fight action occur throughout the film.

The violence elsewhere is tonally strong, but is largely conveyed by sound effects and implied action. For example, gunshots and blows rarely result in blood, the stabbing with the bottle is shown withour clear detail or sight of injury. Where detail of injury or the process of the violence is shown, it is brief and not dwelt upon.

The film also deals with the theme of young women being kidnapped, trafficked and sold into the sex industry. There are scenes of the ex-spy visiting a red-light district where he tries to glean information from a prostitute as she loses customers, a moment featuring drugged young women in the arms of men in a makeshift brothel, and a scene where women are sold to male bidders at an auction. The trade is depicted as cruel and seedy, and is not condoned or glamorised.

In addition, the film also contains a crunchy scene where a man is shown to be hit forcefully by a truck at a distance, and a muffled use of strong language.