Parents guide

Very brief sexual references most kids would not understand. ( e.g. One character claims they were fired for 'messing around' with the bosses daughter. ) Some kissing. A character pulls their pants down and shows his underwear. A painter paints a nude woman, but sensitive bits are obscured by props.

A rat is exploring the kitchen and is trying to avoid the fire under the stove and getting put in the oven along with some type of food. He is okay after that.

Some Explosions.

A woman almost threatens a man with pepper spray.

A woman with a shotgun shoots repeatedly at two rats, many holes are blown in the house and furniture, the ceiling collapses and a huge number of rats pours out; the rats scurry and run, the woman follows the rats and continues shooting at them, the rats sail away on small makeshift boats, and one rat is separated from the others.

A woman aims a gun at a man, the man grabs the woman's arm, they struggle and the gun fires, but no one is struck.

While hiding under a young man's shirt a rat scratches and bites him repeatedly; the man swats at it and thrashes around (we see red slash marks on his chest and abdomen later).

A store window has a display with many rats whose heads are stuck in traps, and other rat killing items including poisons. A rat is trapped in a cage-like trap (it is not injured) and locked in the trunk of a car.

Two men are bound and gagged and locked in a food pantry by rats.

A pack of rats chases a man, clamber onto his car, and he tries to drive away but crashes. A man on a bicycle crashes into a parked car.

The floor of a man's room is shaped like a coffin. A young man imagines a man telling him that he'd like to order his "heart roasted on a spit." We hear that a man died after receiving a bad review from a food critic. A man talks about having killed someone with his thumb, and a woman talks about several other men and their dangerous backgrounds (being in prison, and being mysterious).

A chef states "Welcome to Hell" near the start of the movie.

Strong references to wine since this movie takes place in a gourmet restaurant.

In a scene, Linguini has a nightmare: when he takes the order of Anton Ego about what he wants to eat, he says that he want his heart roasted on a spit (doing this with a very feral look on his face, including deranged-looking eyes and a disturbing smile) before laughing creepily as Linguini watches in horror before it's all revealed to be just a nightmare.

2 rats are struck by lightning and fall from the roof of a house.

Use of poison gas/rat poison may gross out some viewers.

Collette puts 2 knifes on linguini's sleeve, almost stabbing him.

Horst holds up his thumb, claiming he once killed a man with it.

There is a near drowning scene while Remy is in the sewer. Various instruments for killing rats are shown. Dead rats are shown in a store window.