Terrific examples of 1980s and early 1990s "PG" movies that had out-of-place raunchiness in them

"Sixteen Candles" had a topless shower scene that was like something out of a Skinemax movie, and that was PG.

I also remember having "Sheena" rented for me as a kid, which features a lengthy nude bathing scene with Tanya Roberts.

Airplane had breasts and it was PG

PG-13 didn't come in until after Temple of Doom, which had a man reaching inside another man's chest and pulling out a beating heart. It seems that until the early 90's, the MPAA were still pretty unsure about what to do with the PG-13 rating.

the wikipedia entry on MPAA ratings system history is quite good. here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system

Also from Temple of Doom: "Oh shit." The dialogue in the seduction scene is quite racy as well.

Clash of the Titans had long, lingering shots of bare butts for no reason.

im sure we can name many films distributed by Vestron Video.

The Empire Stikes Back: FUCKING INCEST.

70s, but The Bad News Bears is over-the-top with kids dropping N-bombs, smoking, drinking. Adults are drunk driving and slapping kids around. Good stuff.

protracted gang rape scene in "starman"

Beetlejuice had hell of weird sexuality and they say "fuck."

Dunston Checks In had a lot of monkey business!

Oh and Barbarella is a goddamn tits party! (Tho that is from the '70s or maybe '60s.)

Back to the Future = Incest

Barbarella is a goddamn tits party! <--- WHY IS THIS NOT ON A T-SHIRT

Whomever made Disney's Alladin was coked to the gills, I tell ya.

Barbarella is a goddamn tits party! <--- WHY IS THIS NOT ON A T-SHIRT

A-fucking-men

In Transformers: The Movie, Spike said "Shit"!

i can't believe temple of doom was PG!

guys, i just remembered one: JAWS. unbelievable to me, that one. tits, drugs, coarse language, severed limbs, beach-town capitalism run amok-- THIS IS NOT FOR KIDS.

admittedly, it was my favorite movie when i was about 6.

INDIANA heart rip = not in the UK version. they cut that and made it a PG as we didn't have PG-13. GREMLINS as a result was a 15. rankles me to this day that i couldn't get in to see it.

gremlins should be an 18 :(

Romancing The Stone? you do see pretty much a whole side of K Turner in the sack

spielberg can get any damn rating he wants

Ever After had some guy saying "fuck, fuck, fuck" with his back to the camera in order to get its desired PG-13 rating.

Watership Down is fucking U-rated, that ain't right

great thread!!!

the fact of this basically defined my existence circa ages 10-13

this didnt get very far and was hillarious and brilliant. every Police Academy film had some.

watching Vacation the other night i remembered how the nudity and chevy chase lust embarrassed me a little when i saw it with my parents as a kid.

i think that was a 15 in england. typical of the tory era prudish bbfc of the mid 80s.

The Goonies is pretty foul-mouthed for a kids' film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN6coIJ202g

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The Empire Stikes Back: FUCKING INCEST.

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but you don't know its incest in empire tho, right? or you wouldn't have in 1980. admittedly it has been a long ass time since i've seen empire/jedi.

watched the movie role models last night and the little kid swearing all the time reminded me of the liberation i felt as a kid watching the bad news bears at the movies. that movie blew me away. um, but that would be 70's.

(really enjoyed the role models pottymouth stuff. especially the american pie guy explaining "love gun" to the little kid.)

contrary to the posts in this thread, it's not really uncommon to have the word "shit" in a PG movie.

this movie was PG

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/210363.1020.A.jpg

and was real raunchy iirc, my mom even made me turn it off.

there was one scene where the invisible kid was trying to make some dude look bad in front of a girl so he invisibly moved a hot dog on to his lap

tbf i've done that in real life

there was a girls locker room scene in the invisible kid that was pretty O_O. definitely boobs if not more.

OMG, I seriously opened this thread just to post about The Invisible Kid! Specifically about the locker room scene. I saw that on HBO when I was a kid and thought I was getting away with murder. It's been, y'know, 20+ years since I saw it, but I really could've sworn you saw everything in that scene.

And, yes, there's lots of inappropriateness in Roger Rabbit, for sure. This is what made movies from that era so great! I think my parents just took it on good faith that a PG rating was a sure sign of gentility.

there was an episode of full house where the kids went to a 'pg' movie without permission and it was a big deal

i thought that was odd, even as a young whippersnapper

contrary to the posts in this thread, it's not really uncommon to have the word "shit" in a PG movie.

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otm. certainly it wasn't in the 80's-early 90's.

but then, standards/definitions/culture/everything changes

I don't even know what causes a movie to get rated PG these days. The last PG movie I saw was "Up," which got it for "some peril and action."

Some other PG movies of 2009 & their MPAA decisions:

Hotel For Dogs: Rated PG for brief mild thematic elements, language and some crude humor.
Inkheart: Rated PG for fantasy adventure action, some scary moments and brief language.
Coraline: Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor.
Confessions of a Shopaholic: for some mild language and thematic elements
Race to Witch Mountain: PG, for sequences of action and violence, frightening and dangerous situations, and some thematic elements
Monsters vs. Aliens: PG, for sci-fi action, some crude humor and mild language
(^^compare to the Matrix's R rating for "sci-fi violence and brief language")

Police Acadamy was rated R, or so I thought.

Re: Goonies - kids-oriented 80s comedies were to the PG rating as the South Park gang are to late-night cable restrictions: pushing the technical limitations to the furthest possible boundary. Even the animated Transformers movie threw in the occasional "shit" & "damn," & that was marketed directly to the under-10 crowd.

Sixteen Candles was rated PG & had scenes w/ boobs. As a kid w/ ratings-minding parents, that was a real treat.

about two thirds of the way through planes, trains & automobiles there's some pretty epic expletives. it's tonally really non-sequitous too.

there's an f-bomb or two in beetlejuice which is a pg movie

I just saw Fantastic Mr Fox, which I assume is PG because there's alcohol and prolonged smugness

there's an f-bomb or two in beetlejuice which is a pg movie
--tectonic p (latebloomer)

"Nice fuckin model"

Wasn't Total Recall supposed to be NC-17 or X? When I'm in the mood to watch actors screaming in agony while knives stick out of their faces, that's what I put on.

my husband has an old vhs with 'Assault On Precinct 13' recorded off the TV (including commercials). Opening scene: little girl gets shot in the head while she's standing near an icecream truck. No sign of editing or beeping anywhere! Though Assault was mid-70's...and I haven't the foggiest when it actually aired on TV.

Also: I sat down with my 6 yo niece years ago to watch 'Goonies'...and then kinda cringed when I realized they all said 'shit' and Mouth sticks his tongue through the naked lady painting...and they're telling the housekeeper about the cocaine in the sock drawer...but she loved it and her Mom was okay. But wow. I kinda forgot how much they tighten the belt on that stuff these days.

Rick Moranis's character (?) finding Dianne Wiest's vibrator while looking for a torch during a power cut in Parenthood (and the daughter later saying "I thought one of us should be having sex with something that doesn't require batteries").

did the jetfire transformer in T2 say "bollocks", although not checked it's rating ..

pg-13