Judd Apatow and Harold Ramis have been fighting for weeks to snag a PG-13 rating for Year One, an upcoming comedy that's apparently a departure from the usual brand of R-rated Apatow humor. The movie, directed by Ramis and produced by Apatow, was slapped with an R again on Tuesday even after Apatow and Ramis went before the MPAA to ask them to change their minds. But now the team has made changes to the film, and they managed a PG-13 rating after all.
THR writes that the ratings board gave it a PG-13 "for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence." The rating means a lot for a summer movie of this size-- those caveman sets come cheap!--and so much competition around it. It opens on June 19, just four days before Transformers will inevitably show up and obliterate the box office for good. Now Michael Cera, Jack Black and company have that much more of a fighting chance.

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