Classic PG Movies That Would Never Be PG Today

Philip Sledge

17 June 2024 at 0:04 pm

You could get away with a lot before the PG-13 rating came along...

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

You could get away with a lot before the PG-13 rating came along...

Did you know that some of the best horror movies of all time were rated PG? What about those early Indiana Jones movies? Yep, those, along with some of the most iconic films from the ‘70s and ‘80s, which many of us grew up watching religiously, were technically PG movies.

In fact, there were a great number of comedies, dramas, and fantasy films that were initially released with a PG rating that would be either PG-13 (a rating not introduced until the mid ‘80s) or R by today’s standards. But as folks like to say, things were different back then.

Here are classic PG movies that would never be PG today…

Lucasfilm

Here are PG movies that would never be released with anything less than a PG-13 rating (and R in some cases) today.