Parents' Guide to Leo

Parents need to know that Leo is a tender animated musical starring Adam Sandler and Bill Burr as veteran classroom pets. Both the kids in the movie and those watching at home learn important lessons about empathy and self-forgiveness from wise lizard Leo (Sandler) and his ability to lend a supportive ear. Leo and other animals recall being handled roughly by small children, and Leo's tail gets cut off (he says it grows back). In other scenes, a teacher nearly falls out of a moving bus, and a child who's driving a bus full of classmates nearly crashes. Kids threaten to "destroy" a substitute teacher; they plan to throw gummies at her and change their names and not tell her. Anxious kids deal with loss, grief, insecurity, loneliness, overprotective parents, a mean substitute, and the difficulties of growing up. Mild insults and language (like "suck," "butt," "pee," "tush," "brat," "dork," "stupid," "weirdo," "doo doo") mostly revolve around body parts and bodily emissions. One character is confused about where babies come from, kids face the changes of puberty, and the animals have some mildly suggestive dialogue that's meant to be funny. A turtle's bottom is shown when he removes his shell and is seen wearing a jockstrap (and tattoos). A child mentions a rumor about a kid smoking in middle school, and one teacher calls another substitute a "closet drunk."

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