Movie Ratings

I've taken a break from my "Mystical Creatures" series to talk about something that has been really bugging me. Movie Ratings.

Million Dollar Arm is the new Disney movie about two Indians coming to America to make a name in baseball. You may have heard of it. On Saturday, I watched the movie. It is rated PG yet there was mention of sex and beer. Mostly beer.

My first thought is why the heck is this rated PG? I'm sure many parents who took their kids to watch the movie thought the same thing. But then, I thought about it a little more.

On the "Why the Heck?" side, ALL the movies these days that are rated PG are movies such as Frozen. Completely age appropriate for those that are in Kindergarten. Drugs and sex do NOT fit into the age appropriate Frozen-like movies! Not at all. Many parents would agree with me.

On the other hand, PG means "Parental Guidance". My first question is for what ages? Do I need to bring my parents to this movie when I'm thirty? Would they need to bring their parents? But I'm not going into that right now. But technically, the abbreviation would make me think that anyone 17 or under would fit under the category of Parental Guidance, but then wouldn't PG be the equivalent of R?

Whatever happened to the rating of G? Many PG movies these days belong in the rating of G. The only G-rated movies that we have anymore are nature films. Or the coca-cola polar bear movie which hasn't came out yet. Or maybe isn't an actual movie.... But my point is most movies which we rate PG should be G-rated movies.

Ratings have no meaning anymore. All these directors and movie rating people need to get together and decide exactly what movies fall into what rating. I don't know what the process they have for rating movies is now, but I can tell you that it needs adjusting.