#moderately uncomfortable

Laughter, crying, and heavy breathing throughout (but not too bad).

A few moments of eating or other oral noises. Lots of singing and accents, so if you are easily bothered by the typical musical, perhaps this isn’t for you. A few moments of shoes squeaking on the floor, and a few big dance numbers with lots of tapping and shuffling.

Throughout ALL- gunshots, horses neighing, nature sounds like birds and leaves.

As you might expect from a superhero movie, there are plenty of action sounds and fighting noises. However, this isn’t any different sound-wise from any of Marvel’s other films. Valkyrie drinks often and belches once or twice, but not much of that is audible. Characters are tasered and scream throughout. Also, if you are not a fan of Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song,” stay away. Head into this movie prepared for lots of action, laughs, and a killer soundtrack.

Brad Pitt’s character is almost always eating something & Matt Damon is always chewing gum. The soundtrack covers the sounds pretty well but the mouth movements are very visible and in focus. Isolated footsteps in a few scenes and some technological clicking and beeping occasionally. 

The plot centers around a dinner party, which has surprisingly few sounds. Briefly and quietly the guests eat soup, Val spits out his champagne in shock at one point. There is a gag early on in the film about a performer chewing gum during rehearsal. No sounds are heard but his chewing is clearly visible and he blows a bubble. Nathan Lane’s character is constantly shrieking and hysterically crying- played for comedic effect and often not triggering. 

Whirr of heavy machinery and puffing of steam in the boiler room. The bouncing heads make repeated “Oy” sounds. The soot sprites make false pained squeaking when they’re trying to make Chihiro do their work for them. Chihiro sobs loudly in one scene. A character says “Well done” in an eerie, echoey voice, and then laughs equally disturbingly. Boh bawls a few times, which is uncomfortable. No-Face’s soft “Uh"s might also be uncomfortable. Kamaji is shown sleeping in a couple of scenes and is heard snoring both times. A radish spirit breathes heavily. There’s a jump scare when Chihiro first goes to Yubaba’s office, and before that when she’s sent on her own to the boiler room.

Around 10 minutes in, Kane gulps loudly, and 2 minutes after that he coughs and vomits blood. When Lena first arrives at the base, she vomits for a moment or two and it is quite audible. At minute 51 they whisper strangely for a while, which bothered me a bit, but maybe not anyone else. Lots of panting/heavy breathing, crying, loud kissing, assisted breathing, couple of sniffles, feedback. There are periods of time when the audio sort of tunes out, or is distorted.