Threat

Very mild threat in several scenes where characters have to avoid danger, including where the ground is falling away beneath them, and a scene where they have to avoid a slightly scary clown character. These sequences are quickly resolved.

There are some sad moments, but the overall message of the film emphasises that sadness is an important and essential emotion and that it is normal to feel sad sometimes. The character Anger mentions several times that he knows 'a curse word' but we never hear him say it. Bad language is very mild and includes the terms 'sucker', 'what the heck' and 'moron'.

Violence

There are lots of fight sequences in which the good characters take on various baddies, including Lego robots and Lego skeletons. The Lego figures kick and punch at each other, while leaping around in fantastical style. Very few of the blows are clearly seen to land and all the action involves toy figures rather than humans. Occasionally the heads of the Lego figures pop off during fights, and one character's head is knocked off by a flying coin but continues to talk to his friends. Other sequences have science fiction space ships and robots shooting laser beams at others, causing explosions and crashes. No one is seen to get hurt and the fact that all the fighting involves animated toy figures means that the fantasy nature of the violence is very clear.

Language

There is some very mild bad language, with uses of 'butt', 'bum', 'darn' and 'heck'.

Threat

Characters are chased, panic and occasionally despair. A character is frightened when he meets skeletons in a graveyard. These sequences are brief and reassurance is swift.

Violence

A character is poisoned by a villain. Another is crushed by a heavy object, without detail. There are sequences of fantasy fights, but these are comic in nature.

The death of loved ones is a theme of the film.

Bad language is very mild ('jerk').

Injury detail

Archive footage showing a puddle of blood and a piece of bloodied cloth on a street accompanies a reference to the Taliban shooting people in a square. There is then relatively undetailed sight of a body in the back of a pickup truck. Another sequence shows the bus in which Malala and her friends were shot. There is blood on some of the seats, together with streaks of blood on the outside of the bus.

Other issues include verbal accounts of the shooting and the injuries suffered by Malala, together with undetailed footage of her first in the operating theatre and then undergoing physiotherapy as she embarks on the road to recovery.

Language

Mild bad language includes uses of 'crap', 'jerk', 'buttface' and 'God'.

Violence

Altercations between youngsters contain undetailed kicks and punches. A boy sustains a minor head wound after being pushed over.

Theme

There are several scenes depicting characters in distress, including the central character crying about being bullied, falling out with a friend and the death of his dog. Members of his family provide reassurance, and the narrative is ultimately uplifting.

Language

There is some use of mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘shit’, ‘hell’, ‘goddammit’) although this is not spoken by child characters. There is also use of ‘retard’ by a father who is unable to understand that their child is dyslexic.

Violence

Mild violence occurs in a fight between two boys that results in some minor injury.

Theme

There are scenes in which the child protagonist is seen in a distressed and upset state, including in the aftermath of a fight and when his parents become angry with him.

There is also a scene in which a child is seen handling a firework, although no harm comes to them and the scene is not suggesting playing with fireworks is fun or harmless.

Threat

Scenes of mild threat include people running out of a burning building. A man runs back into the building to rescue someone. He escapes with mild injuries just as it collapses, having saved the person's life.

Violence

Scenes of violence include bar brawls and punches being exchanged.

There is use of the derogatory term 'spook'. There is also very mild bad language ('Oh my God', 'prig', 'flopdoodle') and a character referring to herself as being born 'out of wedlock'.

There are scenes of alcohol consumption by adults.

There is infrequent mild bad language ('crap'), as well as milder terms, such as 'God' and 'butt'.

There are scenes of mild fantasy threat, in which characters find themselves in another realm that controls life and death. The main protagonist dies, but this is comically presented, without any detail of injury, and he is immediately transformed into a colourful blob-like state. Other scenes contain darker blob-like beings, which initially appear threatening, but do not bring about any harm. There is also a scene in which a character is surrounded by looming figures who make belittling comments but the emphasis is on the resourcefulness of the protagonist to help rescue them both.

There is infrequent strong langauge ('f**k').

There are scenes in which a teenage girl and her parents discuss a period when she became unwell from not eating properly. In another sequence, a father insists that her daughter take a break from a large protest in order to eat something.

A girl is repeatedly subjected to bullying and unfair treatment because of her sexuality, though this is not condoned by the film. In one scene, she finds two toys in her locker, posed in a sexualised position, with a note that says 'Hello, my name is LEZ'. In another, she is referred to as a 'lesbo'.

There is moderate bad language ('bitch'), as well as mild terms such as 'shit', 'piss', 'ass', 'crap', 'God', 'hell', 'damn' and 'balls'.

There is a verbal reference to masturbation, and a use of the term 'MILF'.

Violence

A teenage boy is attacked by a gang of bullies, leaving him unconscious with streaks of blood on his face. In a later scene, two teens get into a brief fistfight.

Discrimination

The main character is verbally and physically abused by his classmates, who use homophobic slurs (e.g. 'faggot', 'queer', 'homo', 'fudge-packer') and hurl projectiles at him in the school hallway. However, the film carries a resolutely anti-discrimination message.

Sex

There is a scene in which it is implied a teenage boy has an erection in gym class, which causes him embarrassment. There are also references to anal sex.

Language

There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), alongside milder terms like 'prick', 'bitch', 'dick', 'asshole', 'crap' and 'pissed'.

There is also an isolated reference to self-harm when a girl is described as 'a cutter for Christ'. An older character is depicted as being an alcoholic, and there is a reference to abortion.