What age is Top Gun: Maverick appropriate for?

Rated PG-13 in the US. 13, alone or with a parent; 10 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Top Gun: Maverick not recommended under 13?

What's in it: the official rating, first; dogfights without bodies; a friend's death, a father's death; navy swearing. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Top Gun: Maverick: what age is it for? 13, alone or with a parent

From 13, alone or with a parent.

Movie · 2022 · 2 h 10 · action, drama

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

The official US rating is PG-13, and we never go below it. Alone from 13, and not before, even with an adult.

The sweet spot: around 13, when you crave speed and real planes, and understand that an old pilot can have a wrong to put right. Why a sweet spot?

Official US rating: PG-13. In France, zinema would say 10.

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What it's about

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

Why 13

The official rating, firstRated PG-13 in the US (parents strongly cautioned, some material may be inappropriate for children under 13). zinema never goes below the country's rating: it explains it.
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Dogfights without bodiesMissiles, planes shot down, a base bombed, a pilot ejecting over enemy mountains: the final mission lasts twenty minutes and the film shows neither blood nor corpses. Enemy pilots have no faces.
A friend's death, a father's deathMaverick's best friend, who died in the first film, hangs over this one: his son resents him, and an old comrade dies of illness along the way, with farewells. A crash in flight, a pilot rescued just in time.
Navy swearingAround sixty swear words; beers at the bar, and a night at Penny's where all you see is an unmade bed.

What the movie brings

A sixty-year-old man who refuses to give up what he loves, and is right to insist.
Repairing an old wrong with his friend's son: the film is about forgiveness more than war.
Planes filmed for real, without tricks, and the physical pleasure of speed.

Watching it together

Before

Nothing to prepare; if your child asks who they are fighting, the film never says, and that is a good question.

After

at 13 and up

Rooster resents Maverick for holding back his career: was Maverick right to do it?

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A zinema reading from September 20, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made