Venom: The Last Dance

Story

Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his alien symbiote Venom (voice of Tom Hardy) are fugitives, wanted for the murder of detective Mulligan (Stephan Graham). They find themselves on the run in Mexico, hunted by both military forces and alien creatures.

In a dark corner of the universe, Venom’s creator, Knull (Andy Serkis), was long ago imprisoned by his symbiote children. Knull employs a merciless alien army to hunt Eddie and Venom because they contain a codex with the power to set him free. Eddie and Venom leave Mexico and head for New York to start again, all the while trying to evade the US army, the combined forces of the police, and countless creatures from Hell.

Inevitably, Eddie and Venom need help and come across a hippie family, who takes them as far as Las Vegas. Eddie is eventually captured and taken to Area 51, where scientists led by Dr Teddy Paine (Juno Temple) are studying multiple alien life forms, including numerous symbiotes from Venom’s home planet. When Knull’s alien army tracks Eddie and Venom to Area 51, the scientists will stop at nothing to protect their research.

Venom, Eddie, the scientists and the army team up to fight creatures who won’t die and who will stop at nothing to open a portal, free their leader and end the universe.

Themes

Alien assault; murder; sacrifice; crime; moral ambiguity

Violence

Venom: The Last Dance has some violence. For example:

A character is impaled.
Fighting dogs are kept in cages.
Venom says that he’ll eat every bad guy that gets in ‘our way’.
Eddie says to a man, ‘I will tear your head off and feed it to your asshole’.
Eddie begins kicking, smashing and strangling men.
A man shoots at a dog.
With half of Eddie’s face visible, Venom bites off and eats the heads of 4 criminals. Their decapitated corpses are clearly shown.
A character is electrocuted.
A horse bucks Eddie into a river, where he’s swept downstream.
Both Eddie and Venom fight for their lives as the army advances on them. Soldiers have orders to kill Eddie and capture Venom.
A man grabs and strangles Eddie, holding him underwater. Eddie eventually shoots the man with his own gun and escapes.
Venom is electrocuted.
The army shoots at an alien that has come to kill Eddie and Venom.
The alien eats the soldiers and blasts their blood out of its back. All the soldiers are killed.
Eddie and Venom fight an alien that attacks them as they cling to the side of a plane. Eddie falls off and plummets to the ground, but Venom saves him.
A character says, ‘Shoot me in the face’.
Eddie knocks out a man and steals his clothes.
Eddie headbutts a security guard.
Eddie kicks a slot machine and hurts his foot.
The army and the aliens attack Eddie and Venom. Eddie is injected with something and separated from Venom. Both are taken away.
An alien eats a character.
Shots are fired at an alien, and Eddie is also shot.
Soldiers are eaten, impaled and shot.
A security guard is shot and transformed into an alien.
Symbiotes attack the aliens.
An alien eats some symbiotes.
Machine guns and rocket launchers are used against the aliens, who explode but then quickly regenerate.
Aliens attack a helicopter. Men scream as they’re eaten, attacked and impaled.
Eddie and Venom use the chopper blades to decapitate an alien.
A commander is impaled, and Eddie is stabbed and about to be eaten when a rocket launcher hits the alien.
Eddie is badly injured, and all the aliens attack Venom. Venom lures them into an acid bath, and Eddie makes sure the acid dissolves the creatures. A mortally wounded army general triggers a massive explosion that kills everything in its path.

Sexual references

Venom: The Last Dance has some sexual references. For example, a character notes that Eddie should be awarded ‘People’s sexiest man’.

Alcohol, drugs and other substances

Venom: The Last Dance shows some use of substances. For example:

Characters drink martinis in a bar.
Venom says to Eddie, ‘We are drunk and also hungover at the same time’.
Eddie acts as a bartender with Venom’s help. He grabs bottles of liquor and tequila and keeps pouring drinks, although he’s obviously drunk.
Venom makes Eddie have another drink, although Eddie complains repeatedly of a hangover and asks for water.
A bartender drinks shots to deal with the shock of seeing Venom.
A drunk man urinates on Eddie’s shoes.
Eddie is injected with something that causes him to lose consciousness.

Nudity and sexual activity

Venom: The Last Dance has some nudity and sexual activity. For example, Venom dances with a woman and uses a lot of hip thrusts.

Product placement

Venom: The Last Dance has some product placement. For example, Abba’s song ‘Dancing queen’ is used in a dance number.

Coarse language

Venom: The Last Dance has some coarse language.

Ideas to discuss with your children

Venom: The Last Dance is the third and final instalment in the Venom trilogy from Marvel Studios. It’s a fast-paced science fiction adventure, featuring solid performances, excellent special effects and the coarse humour typical of Venom movies.

Because of its content, Venom: The Last Dance isn’t suitable for children and is best suited to viewers aged over 16 years.

These are the main messages from Venom: The Last Dance:

Some friendships and chance encounters can completely change our lives.
When the people we love move on, they still remain a part of us, even if only in our hearts or memories.

Values in Venom: The Last Dance that you could reinforce with your children include teamwork, self-sacrifice, compassion, determination and trust.

Venom: The Last Dance could also give you the chance to talk with your children about the real-life consequences of things like:

hurting others because we think they’re bad
doing what we want, regardless of the effects on others
having flexible morals instead of a strong code of values.