Smoking Caterpillar Robs Alice in Wonderland of G Rating

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by Robert Quigley | 3:59 pm, March 5th, 2010

Alice in Wonderland is hitting theaters today, on regular screens, in 3D, and IMAX 3D. We haven’t seen it yet, but we are cautiously optimistic: On the one hand, the beauty of Lewis Carroll‘s story came from its wit and logic puzzles, not from cr8zy holograms and Johnny Depp as a presumably roguishly sexy Mad Hatter (and early reviews have been mediocre); on the other hand, the trailer did look pretty cool, and Alice in Wonderland seems hard to totally bungle.

Oddly enough, this Alice in Wonderland is rated PG; the original, 1951 Disney animated Alice in Wonderland had a G rating when it was rereleased in 1974. (MPAA ratings didn’t exist until 1968.) What accounts for the discrepancy? A certain smoking caterpillar has a lot to do with it, apparently:

From the MPAA’s stated reasons for the PG rating:

Rating:
PG
MPAA Reasons:
for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar.

Guys: the original Alice in Wonderland also had a hookah-smoking caterpillar. And it was pretty scary, if we do say so ourselves. Standards have changed, we suppose.

(h/t Fark)

Annataylor

What happened to Disney? Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland does not compare to the original animation. I remember when I was a child I would watch films like The Jungle Book and 101 Dalmatians and be amazed! Now, Disney has gone downhill and its films seem to be getting worse and worse as time goes by. If you ask me, many kids websites like Disney’s should not be listed on the top category of sites like http://www.twitter.com/dozenkids. Is it time for us to realize that Disney is not really what it used to be and in fact it now scraping the barrel of entertainment?

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