More Madness from the MPAA Ratings Board
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Two movies opening up this week get a PG rating. One is “Yogi Bear,” based on the cartoon series for children about a bear who steals picnic baskets. The other is “Tron: Legacy” a high-tech action film that involves peril, abandonment, deaths of parents, and characters who are destroyed by being shattered into billions of tiny fragments.
Does anyone think this makes sense?
Disney leans H~A~R~D on those from whom they have particular expectations – the MPAA gang being among them. And we all know, The Mouse gets what The Mouse wants, with precious few exceptions. Yogi is from a whole different studio – one with far less oomph. So comparing the two is not of equals, though it might seem so.
Was the error in rating Yogi Bear too high or Tron too low? And if as jestrfyl suggests Disney was able to pressure MPAA into a lower rating, why wasn’t the makers of Yogi Bear?