Early on, crew is preparing for mission, one male says people on colony needs to be rescued from their virginity.

Brief female nudity shown in a poster on a wall.

Moderate action violence throughout with death scenes (some offscreen) that contain little or mild blood spurts. No gore or violent death details.

A baby Xenomorph is burned to death by a flamethrower.

The movie's lighting is very dark, so many of the scenes that contain any gore are hard to see

The overall violence is quite moderate level, so it is not too hard for adolescent viewing. Few humans die, it's mostly alien monsters that gets killed.

R violence type: blood and gore.

An alien attacks a woman offscreen, but you see blood splattering on the windows of the cockpit she was in.

Dead corpses are seen wrapped in cocoons; a chestburster alien rips through a living woman's chest. Some blood pours out, although not as much as the chestburster from the first movie.

A woman has a dream that an alien bursts out of her; the alien can be seen under her skin just before she wakes up.

Several times, people are killed both on and offscreen with minimal blood.

A Marine character is seized by an alien and in a panic, discharges her flamethrower, setting her comrade alight. In a blind panic, he accidentally falls over a railing a plummets to his death. In the process, he drops his flaming bag of ammunition, which explodes and throws two other Marine characters. One of them is hurled into a wall and snaps his neck.

A Marine character shoots an alien in the head.

25 f words in the theatrical version and 22-23 in the special edition.

'Sh*thead' is said once.

'Sh*t' is said many times.

'F*ck' is said about 25 times in the theatrical version, and about 23 times in the special edition version.

A**hole is used.

A main character says an iconic line which is "Get away from her, you b***h!"

There are a few scenes where characters smoke cigarettes.

The main character Ripley smokes in a few scenes as does Hicks.

Apone smokes cigars frequently.

There are a few scenes with smoking. The main character Ripley smokes in a few scenes as does Hicks. Apone smokes cigars frequently.

The many deaths during the film are quite frightening.

Some intense peril and scary creature violence

Mild to moderate horror scenes, however the film is more action and adventure oriented rather than 'scary'.

Several Marines are in danger of extremely scary and vicious alien creatures. The film is more action-oriented than the extremely suspenseful and frightening first film (Alien).

There is one intense scene where Ripley and the girl are both in mortal danger of being "impregnated" by a crab-like creature that crawls around in an empty laboratory while they sleep.