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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Embracing and kissing.
  • Two girls are seen wearing bras at a party.
  • Kissing and Making out at a party.
  • A teacher hits on brad throughout the film.
  • At a house party around 49 minutes, a bedroom door is opened and there's a threesome going on. Full nudity.
  • A man and woman are shown kissing at a party.
  • A fully clothed woman bends over to flaunt her backside to a child/teenage boy.
  • A female teacher had a crush on Jenko (Channing Tatum), while flirting, she made suggestive comments to him.
  • While a man stands through a limousine sunroof, a woman tries to unzip his pants.

Violence & Gore

  • The final 20 minutes of the film are the most intense and violent, however, it is all done in comedic matter.
  • While the violence in this film is sometimes strong, it never leaves the film's comedic tone.
  • A shootout in a hotel room involves a motorcycle gang.
  • Two police officers arrest a man and one shoots him
  • Two chase scenes involve a middle-aged motorcycle gang, limousines, a large car, and a small car containing two undercover police officers that have commandeered cars from civilians (once by punching an elderly man unconscious); the men all have handguns and shoot continually at one another while two limos run off the road, and one catches fire and explodes.
  • Fistfights break out at a high school.
  • A man posing as a teen punches a teen boy hard in the face knocking him down.
  • Two men run onto a high school stage during a play and get into a fight; one swings from a harness and cable and the other jumps onto him repeatedly, breaks the cable apparatus and disrupts the play.
  • Two police officers arrest a man and one shoots him.
  • A man punches another man in the groin.

Profanity

  • The entire movie is based around a drug named literally "Holy Fucking Shit." But the drug is almost always referred to as HFS for short. We only hear the full name a couple of times.
  • 125 uses of "fuck" throughout, very frequent use of "shit" and "dick"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Drinking and smoking from the bad guys.
  • Some references to cocaine and marijuana.
  • Lots and lots of drug and alcohol use
  • The plot of the movie involves a high school based drug ring. The name of the drug they're investigating is called H.F.S which is a synthetic. There are many comic references to drugs throughout.
  • Middle-aged bikers smoke marijuana in an urban area and a bag of cocaine is found inside and briefly shown in one of their motorcycles.
  • A teen boy is shown in a home video after having taken a fictional drug and he becomes manic and hyperactive before becoming violent, throwing things around his room; we learn that he died from an overdose and catch a quick glimpse of a photo of his dead body.
  • Two undercover police officers ingest a fictional drug and its effects are depicted vividly (hallucinations, mania, hyperactivity, giddiness).
  • Two undercover police officers throw a party for underage teens with several kegs of beer and dozens of bottles of hard liquor as well as a pound of marijuana taken from the police evidence room (we also see a pound of cocaine briefly); we see about 50 teens drinking hard liquor and beer from bottles and kegs, and some teens smoking marijuana as they party and buying HFS
  • The parents of an undercover police officer are shown smoking marijuana as they drive in their car.
  • We see a teen girl at a school prom acting uncontrollably giggly after taking a fictional drug and she becomes erratic in behavior.
  • An inebriated prostitute is seen in the back of a limo with an undercover police officer, and she is shown behaving drunkenly.
  • In the ending credits montage, we see a line of cocaine being suctioned through a rolled up dollar bill.
  • After swallowing drugs to maintain their cover at a school, two police officers run into a bathroom stall and try to gag themselves and each other to induce vomiting (it does not work).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are a few instances of graphic violence at the climax of the film.
  • Both police officers fight on stage in a school play after one overheard the other insulting him behind his back. In a later scene, he tells the other officer "I would have taken a bullet for you.", hinting at the fact that their friendship is over.
  • The prom scene is intense.
  • Unable to vomit a drug that two police officers ingested, they become manic and frenzied, they hallucinate that a coach turns into an ice cream cone and melts and they finally fall asleep.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • At about 49:30-49:55 a character walks in on a threesome a male and two females are shown on top of each other.
  • While in a limousine a girl tries to kiss someone.
  • At about 57:35 picture of a girl in a sexy costume.
  • An officer straddles a man lying face down on the ground for humor.

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