Why are there no thinkers here? Come at it from a marketing and financial perspective and you'll come to the conclusion that the studio would like its expensive Summer tentpole film to be seen by the widest possible audience available and a PG13 rating assures this. If you really want a sequel then you not only want the film to be good you wish it to do well at the box office. Teenagers have a lot of money these days and the best way to sell them products based on a certain film is to make that film available for them to watch. Honestly all this bitching about ratings is idiotic, an AVP film with a ten minute graphic rape scene would be a certified R but would it be tonally right for the picture? Would it make it a better film? Would giving one of the characters a chainsaw make the film better? Sometimes I get the feeling that kids these days would rather watch a public beheading than sit through a good story well told if it isn't soaked in blood and covered in shit. If you don't want kids in your session then go to a session where there aren't likely to be any children present. PG13 doesn't mean they've made Barney Vs The Teletubbies all it means is they want a secure return on their investment. And until any of you kids can pony up the cash to finance and distribute your own AVP film for Fox you have no choice but to accept the studio's decision and continue on with your lives, if you can. I realise that this may come as a shock to many of you but major Hollywood studios don't make films in order to appease the smallest amount of people regardless of the potential financial losses. It's called showBUSINESS, not showfriends, you better get used to it. I'm not having a go at anyone or trying to provoke the easily provoked I'm just telling it like it is and I'm merely trying to be the voice of reason. PG13, R, NC17, X, G whatever the important thing is that it's an enjoyable piece of filmed entertainment and that it does decent enough business to warrant the greenlighting of more films in the series. Tell your friends, tell their kids, tell everybody to see this film and buy the associated merchandise then maybe we can get someone like Guilliermo del Toro to do for AVP2 what he did for Blade II. Stay positive.
