Last year — following a controversy that partly concerned the question of what the PG rating means with regard to a film’s suitability for families — I kept track of all the G- and PG-rated films that cracked the weekly top ten lists, to see how many of them were aimed primarily at families or children, and how many of them were basically for grown-ups. Now that we are almost half-way through this year, I figure it’s time for an update.
The G- and PG-rated films that have cracked the weekly top ten lists so far break down into the following categories (with the ones that were #1 at the box office for at least one week in bold):
Family films (for children, tweens, or religious audiences):
- Happily N’Ever After
- Arthur and the Invisibles
- Bridge to Terabithia
- Amazing Grace
- TMNT
- The Last Mimzy
- Meet the Robinsons (G)
- Firehouse Dog
- Are We Done Yet?
- Shrek the Third
- Surf’s Up
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
- Nancy Drew
- Evan Almighty
- Ratatouille (G)
Inspirational true-story sports movies set in the ’60s or ’70s:
Films for grown-ups that just happened to be rated PG:
- The Astronaut Farmer
As you can see, the bulk of the new films that got the G or PG rating in the United States have been “family” movies, just like last year.
JUL 4 UPDATE: I have bolded the above reference to Ratatouille, to take into account its #1 status last weekend.
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