Parents guide

In one scene, A drunk man taps a woman.

Clark and Lois kiss

Lois and Clark flirt at times throughout the movie, mostly holding hands and staring into each other's eyes, and occasionally sharing a kiss.

A baby's penis is shown twice for a second. Nothing else

Lois Lane says: "So if we're done measuring dicks..." It's meant for laughs and not be taken seriously.

In the beginning of the movie, the mother of Kal-el (Superman) is seen showing cleavage. There are 2 scenes like this and it is very noticeable.

Frequent male topless nudity with developed torso, lingering shots so objectification of his body.

Lois lane jokingly asks a soldier what to do if she has to tinkle, he replies that there is a bucket in the corner.

Lots of mass destruction and collateral damage throughout, but none of it is bloody nor is any explicit human injury shown.

Level of violence: 6/10. Amount of blood and gore.

PG-13 violence type: blood and gore.

Concussive explosions, demolished buildings, riddling bullet sprays, roaring lasers and heat beams, and all manner of scenery-destroying action are the order of the superday. The alien attack causes rubble to fall on screaming, running crowds, and it's implied that Metropolis is nearly leveled from the impact of incredibly destructive alien beams, human military bombings and strafes, and the collateral damage of superpowered beings smashing through entire city blocks of concrete and glass and steel as they pound, pound, pound each other in extravagantly ultraviolent ways. Cars and trucks are picked up and tossed like crumpled wads of paper.

Children scream and gasp for air as their bus slips beneath the water of a lake. Lois is struck by a menacing robotic arm, and we see a small circle of blood stain her shirt. Clark catches her and cauterizes her stomach wound with his heat vision. A man is caught in the swirling winds of a tornado. Pilots tumble out of their crushed planes, and people fall out of demolished buildings.

On Krypton, we see Jor-El and General Zod fight, the two aliens battering each other viciously. Zod ends up with a slashed wound on his face, and he ultimately kills Jor-El with a large-blade stab to the abdomen (just offscreen).

From a distance, a pilot in an aircraft has his head squeezed until it pops and bursts into a gory mess by the side character Nam-Ek, a moderate amount of blood splatter can be seen but is mostly covered by the shaky camera work and messy focus. This scene is very brief and easy to miss because of the distance.

Occasional uses of "shit", "ass", "hell", "dick", "asswipe", "damn", "crap", and one censored use of "fucking".

One scene takes place in a bar restaurant where adults are drinking, and one of them drinks Scotch on the rocks.

Several customers in two bar scenes have glasses of alcohol and bottles of beer. Lois swigs from a small glass of scotch. Clark drinks a beer.

General Zod and his soldiers wear armour that looks somewhat skeletal.

A very intense and adult movie, not meant for kids or even young teens.

A school bus full of kids falls to the water from a bridge. It starts to sink, risking to drown everybody inside, until a kid breaks the backdoor and uses his superhuman strength to lift it up and push it to the shore.

The tornado scene can be intense and disturbing --particularly the resulting death of an important character.

The scenes of destruction on Krypton, and later scenes of widespread urban destruction in Smallville and Metropolis, may be upsetting. People are shown panicking and fleeing, and while no civilian deaths are shown, a young woman is trapped under rubble at one point (she is freed and survives unharmed) and there are lots of falling buildings/crumbling skyscrapers.

At one point a young boy (young Clark) has difficulty controlling his developing superpowers, involuntarily seeing through the skin of a school teacher and several of his classmates. There's no blood but the sudden sight of the woman's muscles and bones upsets Clark (and may upset young viewers) and he runs out of the room. Later something similar happens, with another alien man freaking out as his senses are overloaded by Earth stimuli and he finds he can see through his gloves to the bones of his own hand.

A scene where a family taking shelter in a museum is threatened by an alien's heat vision growing nearer and nearer to them might be frightening, especially when Superman is forced to kill him to stop it, snapping the alien man's neck with a crunch (the man's body is shown falling to the ground) and appearing very distraught. It is also implied (though young viewers would probably not pick up on this) that the alien deliberately tried to achieve this result so that he might die in battle, a more honorable equivalent to suicide.