Newest Harry Potter Gets PG Rating

By Katey Rich: 2009-01-09 09:05:41

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has some of the scariest moments of any of the books-- the Inferi! The return of Bane the werewolf! And, uh, a certain high-profile death that you probably know about but I won't spoil anyway. But despite all the potential for terror in the sixth movie, the latest Potter film has been given a PG rating, a rating it hasn't had since The Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004.

What gives? Most Potter fans were expecting the films to get increasingly darker and more adult as they went along, keeping pace with the development of the books themselves. The MPAA ratings report posted at Rope of Silicon gives no explanation for the rating beyond "scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality." Ha! Mild sensuality! You mean that one kiss between Ginny and Harry and Ron and Hermoine's ongoing sexual tension? That all seems practically G-rated to me.

I'm still looking forward to this movie-- duh-- but I'm perplexed by this rating. And if they're setting a precedent with a PG-rated sixth movie, how on earth are they going to deal with the seventh one, which is legitimately terrifying from beginning to end?

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Cabal
January 10, 2009 at 12:20

First, to Matt, in all respect, David Yates is doing an excellent job and OOTP is my faovorite of the five films so far. The MPAA rates violence by blood and sex by nudity and graphic depiction, none of this is in the book so there's none for Yates to put on screen. The only blood is when Harry attacks Draco and it's probably not a lot because they didn't want an "evil dead" worthy "R".

Second, to Katey -- Bane is a centaur, Fenrir is the werewolf.

And last, who cares what it's rated, so long as it's good. Do you people have any idea what the MPAA is like, it's one person screens a film, writes a report and assigns a rating. It's BS anyway. If any one of a dozen other people had screened it it may have been PG-13 or R, you never know. The MPAA is a joke.

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matt sinopoli
January 9, 2009 at 14:05

More proof that David Yates shouldn't be making these movies. :(

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