Jurassic World: Rebirth

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Not suitable under 12; parental guidance to 14 (violence, scary scenes)

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This topic contains:

  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for Jurassic World: Rebirth
  • a review of Jurassic World: Rebirth completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 8 July 2025.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 12 Not suitable due to violence and scary scenes.
Children aged 12–14 Parental guidance recommended due to violence and scary scenes.
Children aged 15 and over Ok for this age group.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: Jurassic World: Rebirth
Classification: M
Consumer advice lines: Scenes of threat and peril
Length: 133 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

Since the events of Jurassic World: Dominion unfolded five years previous, dinosaurs have struggled to survive in the modern world. The remaining species live in tropical zones around the equator that have been marked as ‘no-travel zones’ due to the severe danger posed by encounters with these prehistoric creatures. However, pharmaceutical company ParkerGenix have determined that DNA from specific dinosaurs hold the key to creating a revolutionary cure for heart disease (along with the immense profits such a discovery would bring).

For this reason, ParkerGenix representative Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) hires seasoned mercenary Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) to illegally visit an island housing the dinosaurs and collect the samples necessary to create the treatment. Zora recruits her friend Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and his crew to lead the expedition.

What begins as a covert mission quickly unravels. While pursuing a Mosasaurus, the team stumbles upon a shipwrecked family: Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), his daughters Teresa (Luna Blaise) and Isabella (Audrina Miranda), and Teresa’s boyfriend Xavier Dobbs (David Iacono). The crew and family crash onto an island featuring genetically modified dinosaurs and must make it to a helipad on the other side of the island if they wish to escape. As the group fights to survive, Zora is faced with a moral dilemma: should she complete the mission and hand the DNA over to ParkerGenix for personal gain, or defy her employers and ensure the life-saving treatment is shared with the world?

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Death; Crime; Animal distress; Children as victims.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • A scientist is grabbed and presumably eaten by a mutated T-Rex.
  • Zora communicates that a close friend of hers died from a car bomb in Yemen.
  • A Mosasaurus attacks the family’s sailboat, capsizing it. Xavier is trapped underwater and is later almost eaten as he swims back to the boat.
  • The Mosasaurus attacks the crew’s ship as they try and tag it, and it attempts to eat Zora.
  • A Spinosaurus eats a crew member and attempts to eat Isabella.
  • While attempting to escape the Mosasaurus, many mission crew members end up falling overboard and at risk of being eaten.
  • Teresa attempts to put out a mayday call but is stopped by Martin as it would expose the illegal mission and tarnish the ParkerGenix brand. She shoves him away but falls off the boat. Martin refuses to help her, instead leaving her to be potentially eaten by the pursuing dinosaurs.
  • The ocean water runs red with blood after a crew member is eaten.
  • Martin finds dog tags below a crashed helicopter.
  • Xavier is almost eaten by a Velociraptor but is saved when a Quetzalcoatlus dives down and kills it.
  • While navigating the river in an inflatable raft, the family is ambushed by a T-Rex. In the chaos, it appears that Isabella is killed, but she later emerges alive, having narrowly escaped the attack.
  • While collecting DNA from a Quetzalcoatlus egg, the mother returns and attacks the crew, swallowing a crew member whole. Henry falls off a cliff but luckily survives.
  • Martin points a gun at the crew and family, particularly at Teresa after she exposes how he left her to die back on the boat.
  • The crew and family are attacked by mutant dinosaurs at the helipad. Members of the crew shoot at them using pistols, killing one.
  • A helicopter arrives to rescue the crew but is attacked by the mutated T-Rex. It grabs and throws the helicopter out of the sky, where it explodes on impact.
  • The mutated T-Rex eats Martin, leaving his decapitated arm attached to a briefcase.
  • Duncan sacrifices himself to allow the survivors to escape, leading the mutated T-Rex away with a flare. He is presumed to be dead but survives, sending out a second flare to alert the crew.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

  • A mutated dinosaur is trapped in fluid inside a glass container in a laboratory.
  • A scientist dissects a dinosaur.
  • A giant fish head is caught by fishermen, which may disturb or disgust younger audiences.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

  • Martin shares that Zora’s mother died of heart disease, which may trouble any children who have lost a loved one in a similar context.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

  • The crew abseils down a very tall cliff, which could frighten children with a fear of heights. Additionally, a crew member does end up falling, which could affirm any fears already present.

Thirteen and overinfo

Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

The following products are displayed or used in this movie:

  • Heineken
  • Snickers
  • M&M’s
  • Converse
  • Lays.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

  • Teresa says to her family that they don’t see the side of Xavier that she sees, to which Isabella responds, “the naked side”.

Nudity and sexual activity

There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:

  • Xavier is frequently shirtless throughout the movie.
  • Xavier walks away from the family to urinate, but he is only shown from above the waist.

Use of substances

There is some use of substances in this movie, including:

  • Duncan and some other men are playing poker while drinking beers.
  • Xavier says that he is too high to steer the sailboat. He later mentions that he has marijuana while the family is travelling to the helipad.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

  • Shut up
  • Shit
  • Piss
  • Damn
  • Bitch
  • Hell.

In a nutshell

Jurassic World: Rebirth is the latest instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise, continuing the story after the events of Jurassic World: Dominion. Like its predecessors, the film blends science fiction and action, delivering intense set pieces and suspenseful encounters with genetically engineered dinosaurs that pose constant threats to the main characters.

Beyond the familiar thrills, the film also introduces new ethical dilemmas around genetic science, corporate greed, and the value of human life. Due to the violence and scary scenes, the film is unsuitable for viewers under 12, and parental guidance is recommended to 14.

The central message from this movie is that medicine and human lives should never be exploited for profit. Although the mission to cure heart disease appears noble on the surface, ParkerGenix and its executive Martin are willing to endanger lives and suppress cries for help in pursuit of financial gain. This ethical conflict becomes a central struggle for Zora, who must decide whether to hand over the valuable DNA samples for personal profit or distribute the cure openly to maximise its global impact.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Teamwork
  • Courage
  • Compassion
  • Integrity.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:

  • The temptation to betray personal morals for money or career advancement.