Disney has gone too far.

[PirateKing]

Nah. Probably not. The rating system is pretty fucked. Violence usually gets a free ride and a cheesy sex scene usually gets you an R or worse.
Passion of the Christ is one of the best examples. That level of violence would've easily garnered it an X rating. But it's about Jesus; and a movie about Jesus can't get an X rating.
My point is the Narnia books have a Christ allegory in them that may have motivated the ratings board.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

MPAA. Blame them.

 

[VoleurdeThym]

You'd be surprised, man.
I was looking back to some old favorites like Rocko's Modern Life. At the time, I knew something was up, but didn't quite get it. Now... WOW. It was beautiful.

Anyway- You should have known what you were in for if you read the books, man. And if you hadn't read them, you most likely have no business taking a kid to see it. Sorry to support your opposition. >.<;;

 

[Marv21]

I would say it was half in half
Half your fault for not checking up on what was their, plus the FYI is the sequal to things are usually alot darker and more cynical/sinister than the original.

Half-Because Disney didn't tell you what the rating was for exactly and not making the trailers look more mature.

 

[Unholykrumpet]

...We shelter kids too much. Keep them away from the swearing, keep them away from the sex, keep them away from the violent torture, that's fine. But keeping them from "jumpy parts", now that's just silly.

 

[Jumpman]

Not a huge Disney fan, but your issue is with the ratings, not the people who made the movie. the entire ratings system is riddled with inconsistancy and major flaws in basic common sense.

My main question to you is, since this movie was a sequel, had you or your neice seen the first movie? Frankly I think it was about the same as far as the violence and scariness, so it really shouldnt have come as much of a surprise. especially since many times sequels try to top their predecessors.

 

[Sewblon]

Well the movie was based on an established book series so Disney had to work with what those books gave them and doesn't a regulatory body funded by the Federal government decide what films are rated? Either you or the film ratings board is to blame. I do not see how you could blame Disney unless High School musical has destroyed the brains of the members of the film ratings board.

 

[Glerken]

Um, you can always blame Disney. There's no time when Disney isn't at fault.

 

[Jumpman]

PG ie PGm 13+. and disney is EVIL! didn't you already know that?

why does caspian have a racist "latino" (?) accent? yeah, we know he is a freedom fighter but does he have to speak like that? and arn't all the people ment to be decended from the first four from "lion witch and the wardrobe"?... wow, i just relised that, they were all related...

the original series was better, the brittish TV version.

Wow. You are either completely unfamiliar with the series or missing several parts of your brain. The accent isnt latino and it is used to help show that caspian and the rest of the telmaurines are not originally from narnia (both the movie and book explains this at the end)

the whole related thing is crap too, in the books it clearly states that while there hadnt been any humans in narnia for hundreds of years before the LWW, there are multiple surrounding coutries with humans, like Archenland and Calormen, where people migrated from after the fall of the white witch.

Dude seriously, Im not asking you to research everything you say in a post, but if your accusing people of racism and incest, you might wanna back up what your saying.

 

[jacobschndr]

Man, I remember when for a film to be R rated, it needed to have oceans of blood or at least one or more sex scenes and every other word had to have some reference to the word Fuck or Shit. Nowadays, most of that you can find in PG rated movies.

Times have changed.

 

[Sylocat]

Wonder what a half exposed nipple would have done to this movie's rating?

Instant R rating.

Yeah, because no child has ever seen a nipple, but decapicated heads? every single day!

Sadly, that's how the MPAA thinks.

 

[Abedeus]

PG usually is someone 12+.

Funny, I thought that was always films rated 12.

Dunno exactly. We don't use PG ratings in Poland. Just a big (well, not too big, but visible) green circle for All Ages, yellow triangles with number from 7 to 15 (Age under parent's watch) and red circles with a triangle inside for Mature Only.

Much easier this way.

For theaters, there is always an information about recommended age and why is it so. Some people just might not know (like myself, living in a country without ESRB or the likes of it) what PG means.

Wonder what a half exposed nipple would have done to this movie's rating?

Instant R rating.

Yeah, because no child has ever seen a nipple, but decapicated heads? every single day!

Sadly, that's how the MPAA thinks.

Heh, yeah, that's what's horrible about all rating systems. Brief nudity, so little you would have to be a pervert or a maniac to notice? 21+, and banned in Australia!! (*nods* sorry, mates)

Chopping people to pieces or impaling on giant poles (Final Destination ;d) - Meeeeh... maybe 15. Maaaaybe...

I still remember first Matrix, with the brutality, blood and gunfire had only 12+. Or the already mentioned FD that got a yellow triangle with 15 in it.

 

[The Bandit]

Wonder what a half exposed nipple would have done to this movie's rating?

Moved it down to G. Babies have more experience with nipples than the average viewer of the Chronicles of Narnia movies.