The MPAA has put their foot down and has stamped its level of approval for the content of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The broad appeal of PG will grace the movie poster.
The last two Harry Potter films were rated PG-13, which makes sense because the books got darker as Harry and friends got older. In a move that has shocked some fans, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince has been given a PG-Rating, for ‘For scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality’.
The Harry Potter series has always grown in maturity with its fanbase. One of the things I really liked about the series since I was already an adult when I discovered it.
I do recall Half-Blood prince, and a fair bit of it dealt with discovering Voldemort’s past as a young Tom Riddle. And Harry gettin it on with the strawberry tart Weasly. I can see why this didn’t exactly rank high on the “kiddies have to sneak in” scale. The book was my favourite as it bridges the discovery of who the mysterious baddie really was and leads nicely into the finale. Not a lot of gore and sex here.
However, also in the article it also mentions the Watchmen spin-off animated movie Tales of the Black Freighter has already been given an R-Rating which is not surprising since the book within the book has such scenes as a man escaping a desert island on a raft made boyant by strapping the corpse remains to its underside.
Just sayin.
