ReelzChannel recently published these comments about the petition to make Breaking Dawn R-rated.  Basically, their point is this: Stephenie Meyer says PG-13 and the audience has been built on PG-13,  so PG-13 it will be. While we all know what we may wish for, realistically what do you expect as far as the movie?

Do you feel keeping with the PG-13 rating will help or hurt Breaking Dawn, the movie?

A group of angry Twilighters — ardent fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga — have created a petition imploring production company Summit Entertainment to raise the rating of the fourth movie, Breaking Dawn, from a PG-13 to an R.

The petition, one sure to set Summit quaking in its boots, states:

It is understood that not only is Breaking Dawn rated R in the book, the director should produce a film that mirrors it’s book in original form that is greatly loved by females (and some males) all over the world. Losing major details of the movie will definitely hurt the release of Breaking Dawn and disappoint fans everywhere.

We’re all for fans speaking out and demanding what they want, but in this case, it’s pretty pointless, thanks to Meyer’s previous stipulation that all Twilight movies be rated PG-13. It’s no lie that Breaking Dawn contains more mature themes and scenes than its predecessors, but we don’t think even Summit would be stupid enough to go against the vampire queen herself, just for the sake of some extra blood and a glimpse of Robert Pattinson mid-skinny-dip.

More to the point, how many parents can you see accompanying their daughters on 10 different theater trips to see Edward, Jacob, and Bella battle it out over a drained animal carcass and a Quileute campfire? If you find one, we’ll be very surprised.

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i’m tor.. if breaking dawn is rated r it wont be shown here at my place..if pg 13 all my fav scenes will be missing..ughhh never mind

Two versions? One for the children and one for adults? I so want to see the midnight skinny dipping. It’s one of the most erotic scenes and it can’t be watered down. How about director’s cut version for DVD?

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My take on this whole debate.

I think what all true Twihards want is for the movie to be as close to the book as possible. If that were the case, then I think it would be hard for it not to be rated R. I always found it a bit hypocritical that SM wanted every movie pg-13 even though she clearly wrote a book with mature and adult themes. Even in Eclipse the backstories alone could be seen as too adult for a thirteen year old child. I know the movies will be pg-13….I just hope they dont screw them up like they have been close to doing with the other movies. I loved Twilight….New Moon left more to be desired, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that Eclipse will be great but not holding my breath.

if the movie is pg-13 it will leave out almost all of the important stuff that in the book and that will screw up the movie teens these days already know about sex and having kids seeing as most teens that live around me are knocked up before they can drive and it might be like that for other places to but i think it should be rated R and not because im dying to see robert in a sex scene but thats how the book was wrote plus the birth scene could be shot from bellas point of view and you wouldnt see anything and the mid night skinny-dip all the book says is bella goes out in a towel and edward is already in the water so you wont see anything there either if its pg-13 it will screw it up and i prolly wont watch it

i think the book was R. althogh the honeymoon faded to black, the birth scene was raw. imo if they make it pg-13 a lot of things will be left out! I am up for R. and hope it will be..but with MR i am not so sure and also SM. If the tweens aren’t able to see it i say they wait a couple of years and buy the dvd, yet again they were able to read the book! and to come to think of it most twilight fans are about 15/16 and up (most not all) in a year or two they could see it.

i really do hope there is a lot of Emmett and his too funny jokes and innuendos (esp with charlie!) that is why BD is my favorite book…the union of E/B (Renesmee) and Emmett’s gaffaws(sp?) and sense of humor

You all are missing the point. The sex scenes in the book are not R rated scenes. They are intimate, but not vulgar. They are what our minds eye sees in them. PG-13 allows for intimate, not totally showing nudity. Allows for the suggestion of it without seeing boobs and butts. Breaking Dawn was never an R rated book and the movie shouldn’t be either.

Even without seeing the actual butts and boobs, still I feel it will be(and it should be) a whole different level hotter, steamier than the previous ones. If parents have any problems with it, they should just preface it by telling the children, this is after Bella and Edward got married and these activities are NOT for children. Too many children having babies these days…

In my country your R rated is M rated for 15+ (mature audiences). Kids can see more blood in video games than would be in breaking Dawn as for the sex scenes just watch a music video clip these days they all should be rated R alot of them are down right pornographic if you ask me,yet anyone can watch them. I say make sure key scenes are in it but tastefully. I have watched a beauty and the beast movie thinking it was going to be the human version of the animated movie turns out it rivalled the Saw massacre movies (go figure)

Breaking Dawn should be as close to the book as possible this last book has soo much good stuff that it will be disapointing if they water down a big chunk of the movie. I agree they should consider a director’s cut version rated r for the Dvd.

u ppl r dumb u can show skinny dipping without showing bobs and ass its called the camera just at the head the back the legs that aitn bad if any1 things this should be R rated u must be super religious and hate anythign that reveals skin this will be pg 13 ppl get over it and stop beign prudes

Come on now! Breaking Dawn was not rated R when did they show anything! The skinny dip ! Really they just got in the water !There was nothing in the book about Bellas boobs. The sex scene? No talk of a penis in the book. So why in the movie?? You guys are so stupid! I think you all should re read the book. LOL! And the girl talking about to many pregnant children these days! Didn’t Bella get pregnant at 18 ? I think you all jus want it to BE rated R. It doesn’t need to be and it’s not!you guys just wanna see Rob naked. Who doesn’t but that would completely ruin the sagas apeal. The only thing rated R about Breaking Dawn is the birth and just non fans hearing about Bella giving a grusome birth will already be the sagas demise.