According to the trailer. I don’t get it. Does Max actually do the Wild Thing, or what?! What kind of kiddie-lit material does it take to yield a G-rated adaptation these days?!
PG really just means “probably just a little too intense for really little kids.” Unless it’s a DreamWorks pic, then PG means fart jokes.
Also, I guess I’ve been on the internet too long, because I thought this topic would be complaining that the movie wasn’t PG-13.
Well, if they made a film faithful to the plot of the book, it would be about five minutes. The book’s kind of light on plot.
I’ve always figured that you couldn’t obtain a G rating without being animated. I suppose it’s possible to get G for live action, but then you’re talking about bland pap like made-for-TV Nickelodeon movies or something. Any live action movie that has even a thought of being accessible to the whole family rather than just the kids under 10 is going to be PG at minimum.
Yup. just like The Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Cat in the Hat.
What they should do is make a movie out of cereal commercial characters. Cap’n Crunch and the crew of The Guppy leading the battle against Jean LaFoote and the Soggies (that’s kinda sorta the plot to the webcomic Breakfast of the Gods, but the link won’t work right now, as the site is down).
Spike Jonze has said that he wants the movie to feel the way childhood actually feels to kids - intense, a whirlwind of feelings, and sometimes kind of scary. He worked very closely with the writer of the book, Maurice Sendak, during the adaptation process.
Personally, I think the movie looks incredible. Jonze expanded the story and gave the visuals a 3D-rendered makeover, but the trailers make it pretty clear that they nailed the spirit of the original story.
There were loads of live-action movies for the whole family that were rated G.
There are some pretty good G-rated non-animated movies. Babe, Mary Poppins, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original one, not the shitty remake) and The Wizard of Oz come to mind. Plus a bunch of old-school Muppet movies.
Except for Babe, a G rating on most of those movies don’t really count since they came before the PG rating and were rerated when the G rating was much more lenient. For example, Tora! Tora! Tora! and 2001 are both rated G. I bet if the Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka were released today they’d be considered PG movies.
Generally, these days G is only for cartoons and really kids-only live action movies. PG is more for “family” films. Babe is a rare exception.
There are only two reviews currently up on Rotten Tomatoes but in one, Emanuel Levy calls it, “…a movie about childhood made for adults…”.
I want to know if they did reshoot as is suggested in these articles (read the older ones at the bottom), and if so if we could see the darker take. The trailer doesn’t look too scary for kids, so I’m betting it was reshot.
From Wikipedia:
Read it how you will.
Yeah, I really can’t see a movie with the Boat Ride Of Insanity getting a G rating these days.
Those Flying Monkeys still scare me!
I read it as “standard movie-making practice”. Re-evaluating and adjusting a movie happens at every step.
Hey, there’s some pretty wild rumpussing going on in that book.
Are these supposed to be counter-examples? Because, as you may realize, the three films you named are three of the largest piles of shite committed to the screen in recent years.
The Straight Story, direct by David Lynch ---- DAVID LYNCH!! – was rated G. And not a cartoon character in sight. Not a kiddie movie, either:
The PG rating (originally M, then GP, and finally PG) was actually one of the first ratings in the system. You’re probably confusing it with PG-13, which wasn’t introduced until the mid-1980s.
Or French bird movies. One of my favorite films of the current decade, Winged Migration, got a G despite disturbing animals-in-peril scenes. March of the Penguins was G, too, and that had pengie sex in it.