The Red Turtle (2016)

79 min · Animation

USPGUKPGAUPG

39 MILD

ScoutScore

Worth a quick check before you press play.

The Red Turtle scores 39 on the ScoutScore, which is Mild. Worth a quick check before you press play. FilmScout maps 10 flagged scenes and 3 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	7
Caution	3

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 for scary and dark with violence and action.

Scary and dark	47%
Violence and action	28%
Themes	25%
Sexual content	none flagged
Substances	none flagged
Language	none flagged
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 Man caught in storm, washes ashore
Caution Man destroys his raft; turtle repeatedly sinks it
Heads up Hallucination: string quartet on the beach
Caution Man attacks and flips the red turtle
Heads up The turtle dies on its back
Heads up Woman emerges from the turtle's shell
Heads up Young boy falls into the sea
Caution Tsunami strikes the island
Heads up Family burns the dead bamboo
Heads up The man dies peacefully; woman transforms back into turtle

Where each one lands in the runtime, and alerts that arrive before it does, are in the app.

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Age ratings by country

AU	PG
GB	PG
US	PG

Talk about it after

“The man spends much of the film alone on the island, sometimes losing hope, and his feelings toward the red turtle shift from anger to regret to tenderness. What do you think helped him keep going when things felt impossible?”

This guide tells you before. The app tells you during.

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Common questions

Is The Red Turtle okay for kids?

The Red Turtle scores 39 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Mild tier. Worth a quick check before you press play. FilmScout has mapped 10 flagged scenes in it, covering action, theme, dark imagery. 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 The Red Turtle?

39, which is the Mild tier. The ScoutScore is driven by the intensity of a movie's heaviest moments rather than how many it has.

What is The Red Turtle rated?

The Red Turtle is rated PG in the United States. Ratings differ by country: AU PG, GB PG, US PG. A letter rating stamps a whole movie at once, so FilmScout scores it scene by scene instead.

See every scene in the FilmScout app.
Each flagged moment with its place in the runtime, plus live alerts that follow along while you watch.

ScoutScores are FilmScout's own scene by scene analysis and change as the catalog is rescored. FilmScout is independent and is not affiliated with, licensed by, or endorsed by any studio or ratings board.

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