Happy 35th Anniversary, PG-13!

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Originally Posted by filmbuffTX

The Farewell, which is in theaters now, is a film for “grownups” and has a PG rating. You’ve also had A Dog’s Purpose, A Dog’s Journey, and A Dog’s Way Home. A lot of the faith based films get that rating as well: Breakthrough, Miracles from Heaven, Heaven is for Real.

But yeah, it used to be that animated films aimed at kids would get a ‘G rating’, but now it’s always PG. Usually for rude humor or something silly like that.

Standards change over time and the Star Wars films are violent and show people getting killed on screen. So maybe enough parents object to that. No blood or gore though. I personally think it’s fine for most kids to see as long as they aren’t scared.

There are some exceptions, but it feels like films which used to be G (like Disney animated movies) are PG now, and films which were PG (like the Star Wars and TMNT movies) are PG-13, despite some of them being pretty tame. The G rating is all but gone, and it’s funny how in the pre PG-13 era, there are some PG movies which would get an R now and G movies that would get PG-13