Drugs, alcohol, smoking
LowNo substance use is shown or treated as appealing.
Movie · 2019
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
12+Use caution52% values match
The Rise of Skywalker has useful themes around rejecting evil identity, repentance, friendship, courage, and not letting ancestry define your moral future. Rey's struggle with lineage can support strong discussion about taqwa: a person is judged by faith and deeds, not by bloodline mythology.
Guidance at a glance
Language
MildInsults or profanity appear and need guidance.
Nudity, sex, romance
MildRomance or sexual themes need parent guidance.
Products and purchases
MildFranchise attachment or consumerism needs guidance.
Violence and fear
HighViolence, peril, or fear may unsettle younger viewers.
Overall Suitability
52%Needs careful parent guidance.
Story Overview
The Resistance learns that Emperor Palpatine has returned and is preparing a final fleet to crush the galaxy. Rey, Finn, Poe, Chewbacca, and their allies search for clues that will lead them to Exegol while Kylo Ren continues to pursue Rey and his own claim to power.
The protagonists are Rey and the Resistance, with Ben Solo's repentance becoming part of the final movement. The antagonists are Palpatine, the Sith cult atmosphere around him, Kylo while he serves darkness, and the First Order's military threat.
Good prevails when Rey rejects evil lineage, Ben turns back from Kylo Ren, and ordinary people across the galaxy help defeat Palpatine's fleet. The film's strongest moral point is that family history and inherited temptation do not force a person to choose evil.
Content Breakdown
The highest concerns are fantasy spirituality, threat/horror, and violence. The film includes lightsaber impalements, brief blood/injury, Palpatine's sinister arena and cult-like setting, a fanged/demonic moment, face melting by energy, space battles, war trauma, a brief same-sex kiss, and mild language.
Scene and content evidence
- The adventure and war plot do not centre drinking, smoking, or drugs.
Scene and content evidence
- Words such as 'ass', 'hell', and 'damn' appear.
- A few mild obscenities appear.
Scene and content evidence
- Rey and Ben share an emotional kiss near the end.
- Two women kiss briefly in the final celebration.
- There is no nudity or sexual scene, but the same-sex kiss needs Islamic parent framing.
Scene and content evidence
- Droids, ships, Sith imagery, costumes, and lightsabers are part of the wider merchandise ecosystem.
Scene and content evidence
- Lightsaber fights include impalements and painful injury.
- Brief blood/injury appears, and a character's face is melted by fantastical energy.
- Rey is taunted in a sinister arena-like setting by Palpatine and his followers.
- A character briefly appears fanged/demonic.
- Space battles, crashes, explosions, and war deaths recur throughout.
Islamic Values
The Force and fantasy spiritualityThe Force is treated as a spiritual power that guides, tempts, binds, empowers, and shapes destiny. Muslim families should distinguish this fictional worldview from tawhid, du'a, qadar, and reliance upon Allah.High
- Palpatine's return is surrounded by Sith cult imagery, chanting-like atmosphere, and dark resurrection implications.
- Rey and Kylo's Force bond allows supernatural combat, healing, and life/death exchanges.
- The climax treats generations of Jedi/Sith power as spiritually present in the final confrontation.
Frame it plainly as fiction. Muslims do not believe in an impersonal cosmic power; worship, help, guidance, and ultimate trust belong to Allah alone.
Lineage, identity, and moral responsibilityRey fears her lineage but ultimately chooses her own moral path.Mild
- Rey is disturbed by the claim that she descends from Palpatine.
- She refuses to inherit his evil despite pressure and temptation.
Discuss that Islam honours taqwa over bloodline, and no one is forced to continue family wrongdoing.
Same-sex kiss and normalisationA brief same-sex kiss appears in a celebration scene.Moderate
- Two women kiss briefly during the final celebration.
For children who notice it, calmly state the Islamic boundary without turning the whole review into that one moment.
Occult-like resurrection and power over life/deathPalpatine's return and Sith setting lean into dark supernatural imagery and power-over-death themes.High
- Palpatine appears restored through dark Sith power and machinery.
- The Exegol setting includes sinister followers, unnatural life-support imagery, and spiritual power transfer language.
Make clear that life, death, resurrection, and ultimate power belong to Allah alone; this is fantasy villain mythology.
Entertainment obsession and franchise attachmentThe film itself may not be consumer-driven, but Star Wars has a large merchandise, game, streaming, toy, costume, and collectible ecosystem.Mild
- The story sits inside a much larger franchise with sequels, shows, games, toys, LEGO sets, costumes, and online fandom.
- Children may move from enjoying one film to wanting to consume the whole franchise or identify strongly with its lore.
Set boundaries around time, purchases, and identity. A story can be enjoyed without becoming a child's main imaginative world.
Islamic Values Reflection
Use this review to separate useful character lessons from the saga's fictional spiritual framework. The clearest recurring MuslimReview cautions are the Force, destiny/power language, violence, anger, pride, and franchise attachment. The strongest recurring positives are courage, loyalty, resisting oppression, repentance, and protecting others.
Courage with friends
approvedStar Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker raises the value topic "Courage with friends". This supports a parent discussion about patience through fear, grief, change, disappointment, and difficult duties.
Patience
عَجَبًا لأَمْرِ الْمُؤْمِنِ إِنَّ أَمْرَهُ كُلَّهُ خَيْرٌ
How wonderful is the affair of the believer, for his affairs are all good. If something good happens to him, he is thankful, and that is good for him; if something bad happens to him, he is patient, and that is good for him.
Sahih Muslim 2999 Sunnah.com
Standing against oppression
approvedStar Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker raises the value topic "Standing against oppression". This supports a parent discussion about resisting oppression, stopping harm, correcting injustice, and using power accountably.
Justice
انْصُرْ أَخَاكَ ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا
Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is oppressed. The people asked how to help an oppressor, and he said: by preventing him from oppressing others.
Sahih al-Bukhari 6952 Sunnah.com
Good companionship
approvedStar Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker raises the value topic "Good companionship". This supports a parent discussion about how friends shape choices, loyalty, courage, and moral direction.
Companionship
مَثَلُ الْجَلِيسِ الصَّالِحِ وَالسَّوْءِ كَحَامِلِ الْمِسْكِ وَنَافِخِ الْكِيرِ
The example of a good companion and a bad companion is like that of the seller of musk and the blacksmith's bellows.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2101 Sunnah.com
Self-control with power
approvedStar Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker raises the value topic "Self-control with power". This supports a parent discussion about controlling anger, desire, ego, and instinct before they harm others.
Self-control
لَيْسَ الشَّدِيدُ بِالصُّرَعَةِ، إِنَّمَا الشَّدِيدُ الَّذِي يَمْلِكُ نَفْسَهُ عِنْدَ الْغَضَبِ
The strong man is not the one who overcomes people by his strength, but the strong man is the one who controls himself while in anger.
Sahih al-Bukhari 6114 Sunnah.com
Positives
Rejecting evil lineageRepentance and repairCourage with friendsSacrifice
Family Discussion
- Why does Rey's lineage not force her to choose evil?
- How should Muslims understand life and death differently from the Sith fantasy?
- What does Ben's return teach, and what harms still need accountability?
- What is the difference between the fictional Force and a Muslim's reliance on Allah?
- Where did characters use power justly, and where did they misuse it?