In an interview with KCRW’s movie industry radio show “The Business,” Joan Graves, the chair of the MPAA’s Classification and Ratings Administration, admitted that (based on the response she and her board have gotten from parents) giving Toy Story 3 a G rating was a mistake, and that it should have gotten at least a PG (especially because of the incinerator scene) and that the lesson learned in that case would be applied to future movie ratings so that movies would no longer be given the “benefit of the doubt” while being rated.
I can’t stop laughing, because this is kind of a ‘duh’ moment. This is a prime example of why you can’t judge it by “Oh, it’s just a cartoon.”
It’s like people who never watch avatar and korra and say “Pfft, it’s a cartoon for kids. I’m not gonna watch it.”