Parents' Guide to The Three Musketeers - Part II: Milady

Parents need to know that The Three Musketeers - Part II: Milady is the French-language sequel to The Three Musketeers - Part I: D'Artagnan, both based on the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. The immersive action sequences often make it feel like you're right there with the musketeers in the middle of battle, with pistols firing and daggers thrusting. That makes these scenes all the more intense. Viewers can also expect branding, hanging, stabbings, shootings, choking, suffocating, and a vicious dog attack (spoiler alert: the dog is stabbed to death), and suicide being depicted as a way to die with dignity. Villain Milady (Eva Green) is sexually aggressive and doesn't listen to a man who says no to her advances; later, the two are trying to kill each other, and it turns into passionate kissing. A subplot features one musketeer learning that his sister is pregnant; he tries to marry her off to avoid bringing shame on the family. Another musketeer is indulgent, which translates to booze and sex—while these aspects are tamer here than in the first film, in this film he obnoxiously hits on a nun (who responds positively), makes suggestive jokes (for instance, that a nobleman "likes to be spanked"), and is shown as wobbly drunk. Religious figures are depicted as untrustworthy, but the musketeers and other characters refer to the Bible and their Christian beliefs in a straightforward and positive manner. And while the musketeers have integrity and a sense of brotherhood, they also have outdated attitudes and are depicted with hypermasculine stereotypes.

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