I really like a lot of the movies Owen, Steve, and Jack have been in over the many years of their careers. The majority of those have been R rated or at least PG-13. But this new movie The Big Year is rated PG! What the heck! By looking at the trailer, it doesn't look like a children's movie, but maybe I'm wrong... Is it a children's movie? I'd like to see the typical adult humor with these guys, but not kids' jokes.
shareVolo, the novel is about an intense informal competition called a "Big Year" in which a birder tries to see as many birds in the US in one year as possible. The book follows the 1998 Big Year which was a historic year because of the three excellent birders who came out with amazing Big Year totals and the el Nino weather phenomenon which resulted in a yet-unbroken Big Year record. Frankly you could make a really smart, entertaining movie about the competition without any adult humor -- I can't think of anything in the book that would require more than a PG rating. It's not a children's film in that it's not geared at kids and the subject matter may be dry for younger viewers, but I wouldn't think the low rating is necessarily the kiss of death for the film. I don't think the humor necessarily must either be kids' jokes or violent/sexual material.
shareWell, maybe you're right MHS... I hope so! Either way, I'm willing to give the movie a try. I might wait 'til its DVD release to see it though... Not sure if I'd be willing to take the gamble and pay the higher price to see it at the theater.
shareI was so excited when the adaptation was first announced -- I am being ridiculously optimistic. Given the rating though and the trailer, if I weren't a birder/fan of the book I probably wouldn't be excited about this thing either ...
shareRELAX.... If you read the reviews posted here on IMDB, someone who saw a screening said it has 1 F Word and a few uses of the S Word.
shareRated PG does not always mean that the movie will be bad.
shareI've heard a g.d. so far, someone getting flipped off and some "sensuality".
A couple A-holes, S word, someone saying "what is that guy smoking because I would like some of it", people saying SOB (also saying it out all the way once that I noticed)
I hope parents do not take their kids thinking it is going to be ok because it is PG.
The review saying there was an f word and some s words wrote the review a year ago.
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I'm sure that's not what the OP meant. I think he was worried that the book, which had adult themes about competition, travel, isolation, etc., had been distilled into a brainless "family film" like Mall Cop or something of the like. As I pointed out above, the films that make this a powerful, adult story do not necessitate violence, sex, or obscenity. I don't think he was saying it needed those to be good, but after the trailer it seemed like it might be slapstick, goofy humor instead of substance. Those who make and market "family films" often underestimate their audiences.
shareYou do realise the certification doesn't tell you who the film is aimed at right?
You do realise that don't you?
Just because a movie isn't full of vulgar language, sex, and nudity...it can't be good?
share"Just because a movie isn't full of vulgar language, sex, and nudity...it can't be good?"
Very few comedies have ever achieved this. I can not think of many...
They Call Me Trinity
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Pink Panther (the sequels) *not sure if they truly meet your criteria?
...?
Thank goodness that you didn't leave out "violence" in your parameters - otherwise I would have been screwed.