Pixels is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some language and suggestive comments. Violence: People engage in battles with an alien enemy throughout the film, and many of the non-human army is killed. There are pervasive depictions of weapons use, destruction of property and characters being digitized into pixels.
The string of symbols used to replace or obscure written curse words is called grawlix. Some commonly used grawlix symbols include ampersands ( & ), at signs ( @ ), exclamation marks ( ! ), dollar signs ( $ ), and hash symbols ( # ). It's also common to replace some letters in an offensive word with asterisks ( * ).
