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Year One Loses MPAA Appeal; Still Rated R

Posted on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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The Judd Apatow-produced biblical comedy Year One has been slapped with an R-Rating by the MPAA Classification and Rating Appeals Board for “some sexual content and language.”According to THR , Apatow and director/co-writer Harold Ramis appeared before the appeals board to argue for a PG-13 rating, but were ultimately unsuccessful in their attempts. At this point, Sony is forced to accept the rating, but still has the option of re-editing the film for resubmission.

The movie has an estimated budget of $75 million (those big sets and location shoots don’t come cheap) The online buzz for the film has been fairly weak (the superbowl television spot ranked one of the lowest in polls), and an R-Rating could be detrimental to the film’s box office prospects.

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  • I don't think this will be that bad, I know it will be bad for their business but I wouldn't mind another R rated comedy.
  • I think Apatow (my personal jesus) better than anyone should know that if an R rated comedy has got his name slapped on it, it'll do just fine. Not to mention Harold fucking Ramis.
  • I like Jack Black but not interested in this movie. Didn't really find the trailer that funny. Wouldn't be surprised if it tanks at the box office
  • Charles
    R rated bring it on. Who the fuck told the studios we want PG-13.
    Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • well, R movies normally can hurt its chance of success at the box office... Watchmen for instance.
  • I'm not entirely sure they could have made a faithful adaption of the Watchmen graphic novel without an R rating. It's a powerfully visceral and violent work, and I think Snyder tried to maintain that kind of atmosphere. I think many of the Watchmen fans would have been put off by a PG-13 rating. Your point is still a good one, especially in this context when the movie is a comedy. I Love You, Man was a very soft R, and likely would have benefited from a PG-13 rating, especially considering their demographic.
  • I am always the Devil's Advocate, but I think the movie should be PG-13. As good as the R-rated adult comedies are, we need a good ol' classic movie not talking about dicks or anything else in a comedy. And I am pretty sure that this isn't a hard R either. Seriously, did the F- Word even exist then. If it has it in there, that would be totally changing history. ;)
  • And I saw the trailer with Knowing and tons of teens, maybe 13-15 were laughing their heads off. Even with the R, they are going to find a way in. Come on, Jack Black? Every teen loves Jack.
  • I have yet to be impressed with anything from this film. That being said - I'll still go see it in theatres. I can see this movie bombing bad at the box office though.
  • The MPAA is on the warpath again. I just ranted about them in a recent entry on my blog. Dealing with Bruno and now Year One.
  • After seeing the trailers this honestly looked like it would be pg13 so I am kind of surprised that it turned out to be R. I doubt its going to be much of an R rated film though.
  • dagreenman18
    The trailer was meh, but i think it might have the pontential to be this generations History of The World part 1.
  • This really is too bad. Especially since they were expecting a PG-13. That means that the humor falls somewhere in between the two ratings and generally that means it won't be hard enough to be a success with the R crowd. As excited as I was and still kind of am I have a feeling "Year One" is going to tank.

    They are seriously going to need to release a red band or something to get the R rated crowd interested,
  • I would see it no matter what the rating was gonna be,it looks funny to me...
  • I doubt the rating is due to language, most likely they show a bare breast and got the MPAA in a tizzy.
  • Joe
    They have two options here: they can rush for reshoots to make it a worthy R (although a release in two months and change would hurt that possibility) or, more likely, they'll edit the three offensive bits and give it a PG-13.

    I'd rather see the former; the latter's more likely to happen.
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