Parents' Guide to Marry My Dead Body

Parents need to know that Marry My Dead Body is a Taiwanese comedy action movie about a homophobic policeman who accidentally picks up a red envelope for a dead gay man's wedding. Cursed to accept the envelope and "ghost marry" the deceased man, the policeman has to get over his homophobia and learn how to get along with his new "husband." Accompanying the comedy are many action set pieces and a lot of the violence is bloody. There are shoot outs, gun wounds, stabbings, fighting, lots of punching, knives and bats, and people get knocked out. A man gets hit by a truck and dies, and the footage is shown many times. Jump scares occur a number of times when a grotesque dead man with a bloody broken neck suddenly appears. People call gay men "f--got" and "f-g" often, and more than a few depictions of gay men and queer life are stereotypical and offensive. The film means well, however, despite some of the film's misguided representations. Naked men are shown (bare buttocks but no genitalia), pictures of naked men having sex are shown in thumbnails on a cellphone, and adults joke about and mention sex somewhat frequently. A man prepares to masturbate to pornography on his computer but gets interrupted. Adults romantically kiss. Adults also drink alcohol, get drunk, and smoke cigarettes. A criminal organization deals drugs, and one scene shows a little girl standing over her overdosed dead mother who has a needle sticking out of her arm. Strong language includes "f--k," "f--king," "s--t," "a--hole," "f--got," "f-g," "p---y," "ass," "bitch," "d--k," "goddamn," "damn," "hell," and "chubby."

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