American movie ratings?

[InaVegt]

I would like to know the ratings for movies in the USA and their under what circumstances movies are rated like that, I would like to be able to compare them to the dutch.

[Flabbicus]

Here ya go.

Hey! It was created on my birthday (22 years earlier of course) :D!

[Ego Slayer]

Media board?

[WampaX]

And the big old page of all rating systems

[Flabbicus]

And the big old page of all rating systems

[Roy]One upped by a reptomammal... I feel dirty inside[/Roy]

[InaVegt]

Wow, reading that makes me wonder what american pie uncensored is rated in the USA (12 here, that means 12 years and older)

[Jack Squat]

Wow, reading that makes me wonder what american pie uncensored is rated in the USA (12 here, that means 12 years and older)

American Pie is rated R, which is 17+. Yeah, we're a little overprotective here.

[WampaX]

Wow, reading that makes me wonder what american pie uncensored is rated in the USA (12 here, that means 12 years and older)

Unrated means unrated (if you are talking about the DVD).
It did not recieve a rating by the MPAA and thus has no rating.

For a list of the changes, see here

[InaVegt]

Uncensored, not unrated (Must be the fur before your wampa eyes), so without blocky bits in front of certain female parts.

[Logic]

actually, it is the Unrated version, i happen to own a copy. and as far as a i know, it was never edited with blocky things covering the female parts (except when it was shown on television)

[InaVegt]

It says uncensored on the cover of the box, of course there's always a censored when there's an uncensored version.

[Azrael]

Not really... it just means that the parts that *would* have earned it a stiffer rating were removed from the movie before theatrical release.

Then, when it was released on DVD they added them back in and tagged the movie as UR (unrated) rather than go to the time and trouble of re-submitting to the MPAA for a movie that wasn't ever going back into the theaters.

No major studio in the US would attempt to release a movie with blurred out bits or bleeps over swears -- akin to what shows up on broadcast TV sometimes -- it would likely be financial suicide.

[WampaX]

No major studio in the US would attempt to release a movie with blurred out bits or bleeps over swears -- akin to what shows up on broadcast TV sometimes -- it would likely be financial suicide.

Pitch a comedy/action/drama as ALL NUDE (but pixelated)? I'm sure its being worked on as we speak.

[Democratus]

The application of the rating system in the US is not particularly consistent. A movie might get bumped up or down a notch simply because of the subject matter.

The current rating system is used more as a way to control the content of movies than to describe them.