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The surprising nudity


I never concern myself with ratings when watching films, but I couldn't help but be a little surprised by the PG rating here because Sheena (Tanya Roberts) is shown TOTALLY nude on a few occasions and prances around throughout the flick in a ridiculously skimpy leather bikini (the villainess, Zanda, is also shown nude getting a massage belly-down).

Yet it struck me that the nakedness/semi-nakedness is portrayed in an inoffensive way like Eve in Eden before the fall and the consequent awareness of evil (you're welcome to take that figuratively or literally, whatever). In other words, there's an almost child-like innocence and purity to Sheena even though she's a quite skilled jungle warrior. I commend the filmmakers for capturing this quality. For this reason I don't feel the movie is inappropriate for kids, despite the nudity.

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PG rated movies used to get away with a lot more as the ratings were initially PG and G. The R rating was quickly added, but the ratings board were still not quite sure what separated R and PG. It wasn't until movies like Gremlins and the Indiana Jones franchise that PG-13 came about.

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