{"id":51250,"date":"2017-06-25T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/did-power-rangers-pg-13-rating-hurt-its-success\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T00:40:00","slug":"did-power-rangers-pg-13-rating-hurt-its-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/did-power-rangers-pg-13-rating-hurt-its-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Power Rangers&#8217; PG-13 Rating Hurt Its Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> While the recent big screen <em><strong>Power Rangers<\/strong><\/em> movie was always intended to play to nostalgic fans, according to director Dean Israelite it might not have been able to court a younger audience. Some have speculated the PG-13 rating the film received contributed to only making $85 million domestically on its $100 million production budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/screenrant.com\/power-rangers-rating-success\/\" target=\"_blank\">Screenrant<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Israelite agrees,<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Definitely. And not only do I think it, but there\u2019s been market studies on it, and the findings have been that if the movie were rated PG, I don\u2019t want to go into the specific numbers, but if the movie had been rated PG, there would have been more traffic. I think parents were unsure if they could bring their kids to the movie, which surprised me, because the movie is a tame PG-13.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the movie did contain a few scary moments, like Rita ripping gold teeth out of a homeless man, it was about on average with anything you might see in a standard blockbuster PG-13 movie, which certainly hasn&#8217;t hurt the Marvel Studios movies or recent Star Wars films. Still, with <em><strong>Power Rangers<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; hitory as a kid friendly TV show the higher rating might have worried parents. It&#8217;s worth noting that <em><strong>Beauty and the<\/strong> <strong>Beast<\/strong><\/em>, which made over $500 million domestically (and right now, it&#8217;s the biggest movie of the year),\u00a0was released at the same time and was rated PG. Israelite goes on to describe younger children&#8217;s reactions to the film.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;They (seven year olds) liked that they were scared of Rita, but they still came out of the movie enjoying it, they liked what was going on. I think we really tread that line well, so it was disappointing that parents didn\u2019t know that they could take their kids to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame parents might not have taken their kids to see the film but Israelite hopes that with the films release on home media, &#8220;parents will feel more comfortable. Maybe they\u2019ll check it out for themselves and then see that it\u2019s suitable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sabans-Power-Rangers-Blu-ray-Digital\/dp\/B0727PMH49\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1498351139&#038;sr=8-3&#038;keywords=power+rangers&#038;tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Buy Power Rangers on Blu-ray at Amazon<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The home media releases might be the last chance for a <em><strong>Power Rangers<\/strong> <\/em>movie sequel to happen. Prospects for a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/us\/movies\/power-rangers\/264765\/power-rangers-2-prospects-doubtful\" target=\"_blank\">second film are doubtful<\/a>, although some <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/us\/movies\/power-rangers\/265253\/could-toy-sales-help-power-rangers-2-chances\" target=\"_blank\">strong toy tales<\/a> could help. More on a <em><strong>Power Rangers<\/strong><\/em> sequel if we hear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Shamus Kelley is still glad the Power Rangers movie wasn&#8217;t dark and gritty.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiderJetfire\" target=\"_blank\">Follow him on Twitter!<\/a><\/em><span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span> <\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the recent big screen Power Rangers movie was always intended to play to nostalgic fans, according to director Dean Israelite it might not have been able to court a younger audience. Some have speculated the PG-13 rating the film received contributed to only making $85 million domestically on its $100 million production budget. 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