Elite aviators push the limits in a high-octane drama filled with epic, uplifting, and relentless action.
Earnest and feel-good. A date-night pick at full speed. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Netflix and Paramount+.
It stays inside its PG-13, with some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
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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.
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
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