Fifty Shades Darker | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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What's the difference between Fifty Shades Darker unrated? ›

The unrated version includes more sex and nudity and also alternate, more explicit takes, with 2 extended sex scenes plus 1 additional one, wherein the couple engage in sex after a game of billiards. It also has two scenes with Jennifer Ehle as Carla, Dakota Johnson/Anastasia's mother.

They've never seen Fifty Shades of Grey — but she's seen their sex scenes. Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson during 61st Annual Academy Award. As they alluded to on Saturday Night Live, Griffith and Don haven't seen Fifty Shades of Grey or its sequels. "I would never see that," Don told PEOPLE.

Upon some quick Googling, I was reminded that the mystery woman is character Leila Williams, played by British actress Bella Heathcote. You may recall that Leila was an ex-submissive of Christian's who began stalking him after a bad breakup.

This may be news to Mr Grey, in Fifty Shades, who sets down safewords (“Yellow” for caution and “Red” to stop) for Ana to use when the violence becomes unacceptable.

As anyone who's seen the first movie or read the books knows, this is not an appropriate movie for teens. It's filled with sex and has many graphic love scenes, including close-up shots of naked breasts and buttocks and glimpses of pubic hair.

Extras: The Blu-ray serves up both the theatrical cut (118 minutes) and an 'Unmasked' version (131 minutes). Also included are two deleted scenes, a teaser for Fifty Shades Freed, and six featurettes looking at the characters, the director, the writing process and shooting specific sequences.

In the first movie, Ana Steele was 21 years old, making Johnson's casting age-appropriate. Much of her appeal to Christian revolves around her naivety, having just entered the adult world. In the sequel, Fifty Shades Darker, Johnson was 27 years old while continuing to play the 21-year-old Ana.

The studio originally wanted Ryan Gosling for Christian, but he was not interested in the role. Garrett Hedlund was also considered, but he could not connect with the character. Stephen Amell said he would not have wanted to play the role of Grey because "I actually didn't find him to be that interesting ...

I am of course talking about the Ben Wa balls Christian asks Ana to wear to his parents' masquerade charity ball. Ben Wa balls are also known as vagin*l balls and are used for sexual stimulation because IDK, teasing is fun sometimes and Christian is really into teasing.

What is the safe word in Fifty Shades? ›

Technically, Ana's safe word is “red,” and when she uses it, Christian immediately uncuffs her ankles.

In the film's final few scenes, Ana asks Christian to show her just how bad things can get in his playroom. After he obliges her by spanking her six times with a belt, she spends the night in tears, only to wake up and leave Christian.

There is also a longer, unrated version, released chiefly for home distribution, running at 1 hr 50 min, five minutes longer. The unrated version includes, among other scenes, two with Kim Basinger, who plays Elena Lincoln, an ex-girlfriend of Christian, and supposed origin of his peculiar tastes.

In this content, unrated means that this particular media instance has not been rated through a ratings process. This frequently means that a work has never been self-rated or submitted to a ratings body, for example, because of the nature of the work (e.g., a sporting event) or for budgetary reasons.

The fights are choreographed and edited so fast it doesn't even show up for people not knowing the uncut form of the film. The biggest and most noticeable change between the two versions is the scene where Bryan tortures Marko to get information.

For starters, Fifty Shades Darker is better than Fifty Shades of Grey in every imaginable way. Despite its title, it is literally less dark than the first movie — there are multiple scenes that are Baz Luhrmann levels of colorful, and Ana even gets to wear bright red in the big finale.