Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context.
Mel Brooks' comic send-off of Kevin Costner's "Robin
Hood: Prince of Thieves."
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Nudity consists of a woman shown taking a bath (covered by
bubbles). There's some cleavage and we see her in a chastity belt. There are lots and lots
of sexual innuendos and anatomical references: a blind man reads a "Braille
Playboy" while sitting on a toilet; another man's shadow gives the impression that
he's sexually aroused; many references to circumcision and virginity; implied scenes of
sex and, even one of rape.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - People in shackles in a dungeon, and torture by stretching
one's tongue. Some fights with fists, swords and sticks. A blind man keeps running into
things and falling down. Villagers pull off their ears and throw them at Robin Hood.
Everything is done in obvious slapstick.
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PROFANITY 3 - Many scatological and anatomical references. Some cussing. [profanity glossary]
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