PG-13?! It's only PG in the UK!
Is there anything missing from the UK version?
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The movie's the same no matter where you go I believe. The UK doesn't haven't have a PG-13 Rating. They have a +12 and a +15 rating, but for something like this, they wouldn't use it considering people from other countries have a bit more tolerance for stuff that would get a PG-13 or R Rating here in America.
The MPAA in America takes into consideration what American Parents think is inappropriate in addition to what they think is inappropriate when rating a movie.
Since American Parents these days tend to object to many things at the drop of a hat (And I am American by the way), movies with well hidden innuendos, mild language that's hardly noticeable, let alone coarse, or even the slightest bit of cartoon violence can have some people complain constantly during screenings before a movie's release, resulting in movies that would probably be rated G back in the 1940's to the 1960's to become PG or PG-13 from the 1970's up to the present day.
A good example of this would be some Disney Movies. Way back in the day, they were given G Ratings despite certain amounts of violence (Snow white: The scene where the Queen falls off a cliff and a boulder follows) or even disturbing instances (Pinocchio: The part where the one boy turns into a donkey in front of Pinocchio in a way the scared some children).
As you may have noticed, Disney movies now get PG or even PG-13 ratings since the MPAA started cracking down based off of parental complaints for quite sometime now.
But you also must remember that back in the day, parents could tell children the movie was fake and most children didn't go out and try to imitate every last thing they seen or got scared as easily as they do now. I can't tell you how many times I read in the Paper that some little brat tried to imitate something he watched on Jackass or some random Anime program.
A video on YouTube shows scenes in movies released in UK and in Europe that got tame ratings despite certain amounts of violence, dialouge, and even blood. Anime in Japan tends to have some of these same things and even partial nudity at time but can sometimes have tame ratings.
Long story short, it mostly boils down to what each country think is and isn't appropriate for their children or for themselves. It also boils down to how parents deal with instructing their children that it's only a movie and that doing most of things they see can get them in trouble, get them arrested, get them hurt, or even get them killed.
-Billy ([email protected])
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