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iQuestions Faculty, Ted Baehr 
 
 
Question: 
 
Tell me exactly the meaning of a G rated movie? 
 
Answer: 
 
G-rated movies are General Audience movies. Of course General 
Audience television programs are supposed to be—it determines the 
ratings. It’s the entertainment companies; it’s really their way of 
advertising. 
 
We see some G-rated movies where we say, “This is terrible!” Some of 
those movies have more frightening scenes in them, some of them 
have worldviews that are very anti-human beings, or anti the world as 
we would like it to be.  
 
So the G-rating is not really the way that you should pay attention to 
it. Some of them are good; some of them are not so good. Some of 
the PG movies are even better than some of the G movies. You have 
to be careful about it.  
 
Let me take an example of that. Disney now is cutting back so that 
none of their movies will have foul language. None of the movies that 
are called Walt Disney movies will have sex. None of their movies will 
have gruesome violence in it.  
 
Does that mean that we always want to watch those movies?  
 
Let’s say those movies for little children are about ghosts. Sometimes 
little children can’t deal with ghosts, even the friendly ghost. They get 
scared that the ghost is hiding in their closet. 
 
 
 
You have to understand that a child’s way of looking at the world is not 
the way some studio executive has classified his film.  
 
Does that mean we don’t like the film? No. It means that it’s not for 
the earliest years of development.  
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