Comment on Zootopia
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago“All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.” for G
vs
“Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give “parental guidance”. May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.” for PG
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Mayve I’m not explaining myself properly…
I mean when I see a G rated movie and a PG rated movie, I am not sure what it was that gave the PG rated movie the “higher” rating on the scale. It’s already entirely subjective, but if it’s rated PG I can’t think of any content it would have that a G rated movie would not also have.
Does that make sense?
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a parent with young kids, G movies will literally have nothing scary at all. Both PG or G won’t have vulgar words, but PG might have like “butt” or something very minorly offensive.
For example, in Zootopia, there are some “intense” scenes where the animals go feral and chase other animals. The chased animals look terrified for their lives. This can cause some younger kids to get scared/frightened by those scenes. In a G movie, there would be nothing that intense. Zootopia also has some innuendo humor, e.g. the scene where the fox takes the rabbit cop to an animal “nudist” yoga club. G movies wouldn’t have that type of humor.
Hope that clears it up for you.
austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
You are thinking only of the modern G rating. Go back in time a bit to find G rated movies like:
Just like society’s thoughts on what is generally acceptable, the mpaa rating system has changed quite a lot over the years.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Very fair point, thanks for providing further historical context.
There are definitely some older kids movies even that have some, “wtf?” aspects about them by today’s standards. Hell, we started watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit a year ago or so with one of our younger kids and my wife and I just looked at each other, “ehhhh maybe this isn’t really kid appropriate after all,” and turned it off.
93maddie94@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think usually there’s more crude humor, possibly words like “damn”, “hell”, or “ass”, and it can be a little scarier/darker in PG movies versus G. But I agree that it seems pretty arbitrary and there’s no public list of what’s allowed in each that I’ve been able to find.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
The reason there’s no public list is the MPAA literally has a secret team called CARA (Classification and Rating Administration) who review works and assign ratings to them. The members of the CARA team are kept secret to prevent studios from bribing or otherwise influencing the panel members. CARA members are generally given a ton of leeway to assign ratings as they see fit, so while there might be a general practice of one swear word in a PG-13 film for example, this isn’t a hard rule. There’s also notable examples of CARA assigning ratings that were unexpected
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You must not have kids
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
None that I know of, anyway.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I see. This site should clear things up: www.filmratings.com/ratings-guide/
If a movie still feels like its PG rating should be G then maybe it’s just because of a minor detail (as viewed from a normal adult’s perspective) that changed it to be PG. I bet a lot of studios aim for a G rating but fail because of some scenes. That would mean that many movies (PG and G) feel like they are aimed at roughly the same age group but some fail to cut a scene where, let’s say a panda is taking a shower. The rating team says it’s depicting nudity, even though a panda naturally doesn’t wear clothes. It gets rated PG and feels like a G otherwise.
Something like that with a bit more back and forth between the raters and the studios, I guess.