The Dark Knight gets its US rating

With two months to go until perhaps the most eagerly awaited film of the summer, it's now been seen and rated...

Simon Brew

It's fair to say that our excitement over The Dark Knight is borderline reaching fever pitch, even with the film still some way away from release. But unlike most blockbuster movies that seem to be finished at the last possible minute, the bulk of the new Batman flick is clearly in place, because it's now been giving a PG-13 rating in the States.

What's more, the film is set to be accompanied by a rating over there warning of, according to Digital Spy,  "intense sequences of violence and menace". Their report goes on to say that "There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence."

The new trailer for The Dark Knight, meanwhile, is set to be officially unveiled any day now, after an early version of it seemed to leak onto the web. July, for us, simply can't come soon enough... 

02/05/08

Re: The Dark Knight gets its US rating

Posted by Norton77 on May 3, 2008

The 'jokerised' trailer online is awesome.

Re: The Dark Knight gets its US rating

Posted by Matt on May 2, 2008

I don't think any of the reviewers here have seen the film. I think the confusions come from the use of 'seen and rated', because the film has been seen by the MPAA and rated, as in given a certification.

On a side note, The Dark Knight makes me excited.

Re: The Dark Knight gets its US rating

Posted by coburnbatman on May 2, 2008

So you're saying you accually saw the movie? How's the music? Is it like how Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard composed Batman Begins? I heard that Zimmer was going to give batman his "theme". I really wanna know.