Anyone else think sexism played into the PG rating?
I know the knee jerk reaction to the PG rating is marketing, and I get that - they wanted to be able to market to children and sell toys. However, I truly think they could have marketed it the exact same way with all the same merchandising and still rated it PG-13.
All the Marvel and Star Wars movies are rated PG-13 and they’re marketed towards children the same way Wicked was. They make a fortune off of toys and kids clothes! The biggest difference I can see here is that Marvel and Star Wars are marketed towards boys and Wicked is marketed towards girls. I think most fans of the musical were surprised to find out it would be rated PG, and I’ve seen a lot of people say (and I agree) that For Good especially would have benefitted from a PG-13 rating.
Anyone agree? Am I overthinking this?
ETA: My point here is that the movies would have been better if they had been made with the intention of being PG-13 from the start and had a slightly more mature approach to the subject matter, not that the movies as they are should be PG-13, in case that wasn’t clear in my original post!