A small amount of innuendo: the Gogan men make comments about how, in their attempt to steal Pete back, they'd like to hold Nora.

Nora kisses Elliot, which makes him disappear.

Throughout the film, it is made clear that Pete's hillbilly foster family were very abusive towards him. During a song, they sing about various ways they plan to torture him (e.g. drowning him, tying him to a railway track) and in one scene, he tells someone they would hit him all the time. However, all of this is implied, not shown. The most they are seen doing is tying Pete up in a sack.

Some mild slapstick involving the invisible Elliott the dragon (e.g. a picket fence being smashed, a man falling off a milk truck, a giant dragon-shaped hole in the side of a building.) No one is visibly injured.

A teacher unfairly uses corporal punishment on Pete, slapping his knuckles with a pointer. At one point, she goes to spank him with a yardstick but is stopped before she can do so.

Multiple kidnapping attempts.

In one song, Jim Dale and his apprentice talk about "binding and grinding" Elliott and taking his body parts for medicine.

Scattered use of "darn" and "dang".

A visibly drunk man walks out of a tavern, wobbling and slurring his words.

A musical number takes place in a pub where multiple people are seen drinking and smoking; one man pours beer into mugs for a lot of people. The scene ends with drunken people dancing on barrels that blowout from being agitated too much.

2 drunk men with slurred speech seek out the dragon in a cave, they offer the dragon some alcohol from a flask which he drinks and becomes intoxicated and belches fire.

The hillbilly Gogan family with their dirty clothes, rotten teeth and greasy hair may look unsettling to some young children.