PG or PG-13

If you think about it , I can say that if I was 7 year old , Darth Maul would have made me cack myself. And at the end he gets chopped in half and falls as two bits. You see it all and that was a PG or a U in the UK. It would never get more than a PG here in UK , say 12 because it wont in the states. The reason for this is fox wouldn't allow it. They and probably Lucas too , will want the maximum target audience to see it, and by making a film anything more than a PG this might not happen.

Well my son was 3 when he saw TPM and he thought Darth Maul was cool. I don't think he was scary at all, fierce yeah, but not scary. I think he was designed for kids to like and was to be like to be honest. Just look hoe many Darth Mauls you've saw trick or treating in 1999 and 2000.

Of course, rumour has it that GL added the close-ups of the burnt-out skeletons in A New Hope to make sure it didn't get the bottom rating, that he was worried would hurt ticket sales.

I don't know if that was true or if it worked, but it certainly had no effect on the British Video censors. One of the early video releases of Star Wars in the UK actually had a U:C certificate, meaning Universal but specifically meant for kids- like a Care Bears movie! Star Wars is, of course, for kids in a sense, but I hardly think it needed to be put in video shops amongst "Peter the Perfect Pixie" and so on.

Yeah, kinds love it. Besides there's nothing like the sight of a burtnt up skeleton to make a kid eat his dinner...

well, I kinda think both of you are wrong, you guys both want the same rating yet you still talk like this?? Well, since this is the 21st century,the ratings commity( I don't know what it's called ) starts to expirement, I have seen a whole lot Of PG-13 movies with sex scenes in them ( I'm not talking about laying in bed smoking, I mean the real deal ) I don't see why it wouldn't be PG . Even though I want it to be PG-13 over here in the states, I don't think GL is brave enough to make it PG-13. Facts are facts

Hi everybody, nice to meet you.🙂 I would think that Episode 2 and 3 would both be PG rated.

Hi Yerial 🙂

I agree... it's tradition..adn I don't think GL will need to go PG13.

Sorry, Merc, both of who are wrong? DId you mean me? In my defence, if you did, I am only quoting facts. The BBFC realised it's mistake with the U:C certificate and withdrew it in the mid-eighties. IANd I don't actually think I was trying to say anything, I was just pointing out something amusing...

Of course, if you didn't mean me, my apologies.

im over in the US and my parents will let me see R. It must really suck in the UK.

The thing I don't understand is that I always thought of SW as a kiddie flick (well, not sooo much because I still like it as an adult). But the point I'm trying to make is that most of the kiddie flicks back then were a bit more violent and adventuresome..Look at the cartoons and Disney movies.. Look at Darby O'Gill and the Little People..that was pretty basic for a kiddie flick back then and it was waaaaaay more than you'd see in a film for the same audience today.

BTW, welcome aboard Lugi 🙂

Well, in the UK at least, the VIDEO releases have always had a U (General) rating, though I know that the BBFC does give video a slightly less rigorous testing for rating.

Does kind of make you think that any PG ratyings given where pretty close to being U ratings though.

I always find it pretty amusing that the SW saga has a U certificate, considering all the death and destruction that is shown during the course of the series. I remember the furore caused over the 'Rambo' films of the eighties, in which there were lists of all the people he killed over the course of one movie, that's nothing on SW kill ratio, how many people were on Alderaan when it blew? Or the Death Star I+II? How many are yet to die, with the upcoming jedi slaughter and will GL go as far as to show Padme being killed onscreen.

but they didn't actually show people getting killed when it blew. I've seen cartoons that use this kind of method.

Considering that we may see a lot of clones, Jedi and other humans killed it would make sense that the movie will have a PG-13. I don’t want him to have to change any part of the movie if it means getting a PG-13 rather than a PG. That would take away from the way he envisioned it. A PG-13 shouldn’t really matter since most children will go with their parents to see the movie anyway.

DTR, you are soooo right

I think we're jumping the gun to say that we're gonna see alot of clones, jedi etc. get killed...GL won't show it...this is SW. We won't see it...not in any form that we haven't seen before.

For a start, all those criminals being hacked up by Luke at the start of ROTJ. He goes through loads ofn them, yet they all manage to get killed in a non-violent way, even though Luke is using a lightsabre.

If it gets a PG-13, George will simply cut it until it gets a PG. In Britiatin it will almost certainly get a U.

If the BBFC get's it's way it may not matter after all....

PG has so much of a kiddie feel to it,all of disney's non animated movies were PG, they had little grown up bits in them though, and since probably the word, (you know that word) might come up with all the happenings with Ani and Padme, I'm not sure.

I hope the movie is PG-13 just so Lucas doesn't have to cut away anything just for the kids. I want to see Jedi being destroyed by Anakin and the Empire, I don't want to hear Obi-Wan and Yoda "discussing" how there are no more Jedi. I want to see Padme dying not Palpatine telling Anakin that she died. And if this whole "arena" scene is true then we are going to see a lot of death. And obviously EPIII a lot of bad things are going to happen, so PG-13 is almost unavoidable.