Notable flagged moments. Look over the scenes before you watch.
Captain America: The First Avenger scores 50 on the ScoutScore, which is Bold. Notable flagged moments. Look over the scenes before you watch. FilmScout maps 20 flagged scenes and 6 marked caution.
A ScoutScore is a living number. We re-check movies against the source and raise or lower it when we find something the first pass missed, so a score you see today can differ from one you saw last month.
What FilmScout flagged
Heads up
14
Caution
6
Content map
How the scenes we flagged in this movie divide up by kind. These are shares of what was flagged, not a level, and not a promise about anything we did not flag: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.
Flagged mostly for violence and action.
Scary and dark
19%
Violence and action
54%
Themes
25%
Sexual content
none flagged
Substances
1%
Language
1%
All flagged content
100%
Direction is the kind of content flagged. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the dotted line, which is 100. The scale has no ceiling, so a shape can cross it.
Scenes FilmScout flagged
Heads up Hydra raids Norwegian village
Heads up Schmidt reveals the Tesseract and removes his mask
Heads up Steve gets beaten up in an alley
Heads up Mild profanity - scattered
Heads up Steve jumps on grenade
Heads up Super-soldier experiment and Erskine's assassination
Heads up Assassin bites cyanide capsule
Heads up Schmidt kills Nazi officers with Tesseract weapon
Heads up Bucky's unit reported captured or killed
Caution Rescue raid on Hydra factory (begins)
Caution Rescue raid on Hydra factory (continues)
Heads up Hydra officer executed for failure
Caution Train assault and Bucky's fall
Heads up Steak served to captive; beef consumption
Heads up Steve and Peggy grieve Bucky over drinks
Caution Assault on Hydra's mountain fortress
Caution Final confrontation with Red Skull and Tesseract portal (begins)
Caution Final confrontation with Red Skull and Tesseract portal (continues)
Heads up Steve says goodbye and crashes the plane
Heads up Steve wakes up 70 years later
Where each one lands in the runtime, and alerts that arrive before it does, are in the app.
“Steve Rogers volunteers to crash the plane into the ocean to protect millions of people he has never met. What do you think it felt like for him to make that choice, and what helps people find the courage to put others first even when it costs them everything?”
This guide tells you before. The app tells you during.
Every scene above is timed. The FilmScout app listens to the movie and taps you 30 seconds before each one, so you can skip, turn the sound down, or talk it through. Free to start on iPhone.
Is Captain America: The First Avenger okay for kids?
Captain America: The First Avenger scores 50 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Bold tier. Notable flagged moments. Look over the scenes before you watch. FilmScout has mapped 20 flagged scenes in it, covering action, theme, substance use. The right answer depends on your child, which is why FilmScout shows you the scenes instead of giving a verdict.
What is the ScoutScore for Captain America: The First Avenger?
50, which is the Bold tier. The ScoutScore is driven by the intensity of a movie's heaviest moments rather than how many it has.
What is Captain America: The First Avenger rated?
Captain America: The First Avenger is rated PG-13 in the United States. Ratings differ by country: AU M, CA PG, GB 12A, US PG-13. A letter rating stamps a whole movie at once, so FilmScout scores it scene by scene instead.
ScoutScores are FilmScout's own scene by scene analysis and change as the catalog is rescored.
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