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MPAA G 2013

A G rated film, in the United States, means it is for all ages. It is a rating of the Motion Picture Association in which the organization believes is suitable for everyone, and all ages are admitted. Most G-rated films are children's movies. No content advisory is published for G-rated films. It means: General Audiences - All Ages Admitted.

It was established with the system.

Equivalent to: TV Parental Guidelines' TV-Y, TV-G and TV-Y7, ESRB's E rating and the obsolete EC rating.

Unique cases[]

The Straight Story was rated G. The lack of any content likely to offend or harm children gave the film its G rating. Despite its G rating, the themes of the film would bore children, and in addition, there is use of very mild profanity ("damn" and "hell").

2001: A Space Odyssey was controversially rated G despite containing a prolonged death scene (with the victim visibly suffering as he tries to breathe), a scene with multiple deaths and intense themes; however, due to the lack of action, the fact that the deaths are not violent and the idea that children may not understand or recognize the deaths, it was rated accordingly.

Pixar's Cars 2 controversially received a G rating despite it containing many explosions and other scenes that may frighten young children. This caused the number of G-rated animated movies to decline gradually each year following Cars 2's release. However, the G rating is still used for animated movies including Monsters University, Rio, Rio 2, The Peanuts Movie, Cars 3, Penguins, Toy Story 4, PAW Patrol: The Movie, Luck and Glisten and the Merry Mission.

Factors[]

Violence[]

Violence must be infrequent and should not have any visible consequences. It must be unrealistic in nature otherwise it can be accommodated within the PG rating.

Language[]

Bad language must be kept to a minimum, be very mild in impact and be unlikely to offend people. Words that may be used can be "damn" and "hell".

Sexual content[]

There can be very subtle sexual references that children may not recognize.

Substance use[]

Alcohol (and sometimes tobacco) use can be present in G rated movies as long as it is not glorified or encouraged and is infrequent.

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Motion Picture Association film rating system
MPA G MPA PG MPA PG-13 MPA R MPA NC-17
Formerly used ratings: M | GP | X
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