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Surprise! Cars 2 Gets A ‘G’ Rating

May 25, 2011 By 19 Comments

With Pixar’s dedication to create films for the entire family (as John Lasseter has personally emphasized), the studio has always received G and PG ratings for its films. Box Office Mojo is now reporting that the upcoming Cars 2 continues that streak, as the film has earned a G rating from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). Given Pixar’s history, this news will surprise no one. However, some parents had been wondering whether the film franchise would take a turn and focus on weapons and violence due to footage seen in teasers and trailers. The G rating makes it official – Cars 2 will be a film for all ages.

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While Pixar has hovered around G ratings throughout much of its existence, The Incredibles (2004) received a PG rating due to the film’s “action violence.” With Cars 2′s turn to the spy genre, some thought it may also be stamped with a PG rating, but now there is no question that the spy aspects of the storyline will remain accessible to all.

The G-rated Cars 2 is due for release on June 24, which is now less than 1 month away!

Source: Box Office Mojo

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About Samad Rizvi

Samad is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Pixar Times. His favorite films include The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Vertigo, Back to the Future, Children of Men, and of course, Pixar's Monsters, Inc., WALL-E and Up. His most anticipated films of 2012 include Brave, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, and Prometheus.

  • Kevin F

    Up was also PG I believe. Probably for the bits of action and blood.

    • http://pixartimes.com Samad

      Yeah, Up was the only other PG Pixar movie. Officially, it was rated PG for “some peril and action.” You’re right, the blood is what probably pushed it over.

  • Kevin F

    Also, I’m highly surprised that this movie didn’t get the PG rating, especially given the amount of action this is said to have and the guns being in it. I figured after some people not being ok with the G rating for Toy Story 3 they would go with the PG to be safe. I suppose the action is very friendly oriented? I don’t get that haha.

  • http://www.mykidzklozet.com liz garland

    DEFINITELY should have been a PG! Extremely disappointed in the Violence!

  • Randy

    No question this movie should be PG. Too much “killing” and discussion of “killing”. Of course its animated but missles, guns, explosions, torture and killing are adult themes. Shocked at the G rating. Completely different from Cars 1.

  • Diane

    Yeah, I think this is now a huge public relations problem for Disney/Pixar because parents of 4 year olds are wandering into the film with innocent expectations and leaving half way through with terrified children. A PG-13 rating would have kept that from happening. But now people are posting warnings about the movie on mother’s groups forums – which will hurt it’s success in the box office as well as the sale of merchandise. I’m very curious if Pixar or John Lasseter will respond to what looks now to be a huge controversy about a G rating on a very violent and scary film, especially for a 3 to 6 year old audience. The film would have been served better by a stricter rating.

  • Barb

    Perhaps it should be required for parents to view the film prior to taking their children. Clearly, we’ve become the nanny nation of the globe. Heaven forbid any of these children that left the theater crying get their hands on any old Road Runner or Tweety footage! However did anyone from that era rise to adulthood?

    • http://gravatar.com/dougr100 dougr100

      Road Runner cartoons were originally intended for an adult audience. My father used to switch away from Bugs Bunny & Road Runner when Road Runner came on. I can’t say I blame him. Even as a kid, you know Tweety isn’t in real peril. I think the main point is that Cars 2 should have gotten a PG rating with a warning about the gunplay/violence.

  • Chris

    Get a grip (and a life) people! It’s a cartoon!

  • Carolyn

    It should have been PG. G movies parents shouldn’t have to view prior to seeing with their kids. That’s why they have the ratings system. Why can’t they make real G movies anymore? I miss the days of Mary Poppins, Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang, and Lassie. Also, you can make a kids spy movie theme without guns- more imagination is needed. Secret booby traps, nets, oil slicks etc. I’m disappointed in Pixar and John Lasseter for the excessive violence and for having the “bad” guy cars want to kill Lighting McQueen and the other cars. Road Runner’s intention wasn’t to kill Wiley Coyote, it was mischief. He always got up again after the anvil fell on his head. I’d like to hear from Pixar and Lasseter their intentions behind the complete 180 direction Cars 2 went from the original.

  • chris m

    “Kill him”, “he will die”, etc. Pretty sure that is what I heard in Cars 2. To those who say get a grip –no I will not get a grip. Totally inexcusable language for a G rated movie. Who’s to blame –I don’t know–Disney for putting it out– the writer and director’s for taking a movie about a racing car and turning it into a crime drama. They all should be ashamed.

  • Ryan

    Who ever thinks Cars 2 being G rated is a problem,shut the hell up.I say it’s great Cars 2 is G so LAY THE HELL OFF

  • bill

    look we have every right 2 be upset if we are misled into believing something and then having our kids exposed to something we dont want them 2 see…i.e. violence. is it wrong to not want your kids to wonder what killing means? anyone who has to defend a movie by being a toughie is nothing but a punk… so ignorant. who cares if its good or not? so is die hard..so is porn , i bet you curse & smoke around your kids 2

  • bill

    grow up and look at the bigger picture, the stealing of innocence @ a younger age

  • Robyn

    Cars 2 should have been PG. While I enjoyed the movie, it had way too much violence for my 5 year old!!!

  • Angie

    I have a very sensitive 3-year-old who is obsessed with the first movie, so his dad and I decided this would be the PERFECT first theater experience. He generally finds some scenes in G-rated films scary, but we are always able to tell him not to worry and that the character will be ok. And up until Cars 2, we were always right. My son does not live in a bubble, he has seen PG movies, and he does know what guns are. Heck, he loves the old Transformer cartoons from the 80s. But there is something about seeing it on the big screen with the loud audio that really startled him. He was physically shaking during the first scene. Had I known, I would have still let him see it, but I would have waited for the DVD. We trusted the G-rating and the fact that it was a Cars film to mean that it would be fun for all ages. A responsible rating would have been PG. PG does not mean inappropriate, but it would let parents of very young children know that there may be some things to watch out for. I felt blind-sided.

  • Andrew

    I too strongly believe that this should have been rated PG. Don’t get me wrong, I love violence (and nudity) in a movie, but not in one squarely aimed at 3 to 6 year olds.

    For those saying “it’s just a cartoon”, would you have been ok with cartoon nudity in the same movie? I can’t image what the reaction to that would have been, but for some odd reason that I will never understand, cartoon killing a torture is just fine….

  • j s

    Within the first 5 months of this movie we hear “stupid,” “jerk,” “kill him,” “he’s dead,” and we see tons of gunfire, a bomb explosion and a car/character falling to his presumable death into the ocean. Fro there, there’s plenty more violence, gunfire, bombs and similar langauge. I like to think G is safe for my four-year-old, and I don’t need to research movies with that rating before showing to my very young children, but thanks to Disney and Pixar, I now know differently. This ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT have been rated G movie.

    • j s

      oops.

      “minutes”… not “months”"From” not “Fro”