The Pirates (2014) Parents Guide: Is the movie OK for kids?

Mild sexual content and implications appear in a few scenes: a slave-trading ship includes a girl who states her father sold her, some characters exchange flirtatious looks, and there are momentary scenes of women in period undergarments teasing a man. IMDb Parents Guide specifically notes the trafficked girls, shirtless men bathing, and a scene where a man's groin is briefly touched (a hand in pants while another character is restrained). Nothing explicit or nudity-revealing is shown.

Moderate, stylized action violence runs throughout the film: frequent sword fights, hand-to-hand blows, and stunt combat with some on-screen blood but no graphic gore. Specific incidents noted in the IMDb Parents Guide include an unarmed man slashed across the throat (blood seen), prisoners executed with a crossbow, a beheading shown with a sword swing and silhouette spray, and characters tied up and dumped overboard. There are also explosive sequences (a wrecked waterwheel and damaged village) and several scenes…

Mild profanity appears occasionally (exclamations like "oh God", "d—n", and intermittent uses of "sh—"). IMDb contributors note infrequent uses of stronger words and that a female character is repeatedly called a derogatory term in keeping with the film's rough period setting. The tone is more coarse than modern family fare but not pervasive.

Light alcohol use: crews and captains drink and some characters are shown drunk. IMDb notes the captain orders alcohol for the crew and that drinking is portrayed as common aboard ships; there is no drug use and smoking is not emphasized.

Moderate mature themes appear: human trafficking/slavery (girls shown aboard a trafficking ship), executions and death, and the destruction of a village with grieving children. The film centers on a dangerous race to recover the Ming seal (including a whale swallowing the seal), so risk to life and scenes of loss and desperation recur. IMDb Parents Guide entries describe the ship trafficking and the village attack specifically.

No standout scary moments have been catalogued for The Pirates yet. Because this title is recommended for younger kids, sign up to get community-flagged jump scares, tense scenes, and startling imagery as parents submit them.