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The Final Rating

The point of The Final Rating is to teach players how the MPAA works and what criteria they have for rating movies. As a player of the game, you are a movie director trying to get your movie rated. Underneath, you can see the instructions of the game and examples of tasks from the game.

The Final Rating

Objective: To get a certain movie rating from the MPAA

Player:  Movie Director

How to Play:

At the beginning of the game, you will be told what rating you want your movie to receive.  For example, the game will say “your task is to get a PG-13 rating.”

Press Start button.

You must start building your movie by answering certain questions and completing certain tasks. 

Example of question:

Question #1:  Are you an independent movie director or a studio film director?

Answer: Studio film director because the MPAA tends to favors studios over independent filmmakers.

If you answered this question correctly, you are one step closer to getting a PG-13 rating by the MPAA.

Sometimes, you will have to win a game. Examples of games might be:

Violence Catcher:

Try to collect as many non-bloody violent scenes as possible by using your cursor to move around a bucket that is trying to catch as many bodies as possible.  If the bodies touch the ground, then your movie gains a sex scene. 

If you collected more violent scenes than sex scenes you are one step closer to getting a PG-13 rating by the MPAA.

Sexual Orientation Sweeper:

This game is something similar to Minesweeper.  In this game, you must uncover all of the boxes that have a male and female character while clicking on as few boxes as possible that have two male or two female characters.  When all boxes that have a female and male are uncovered, the game ends.  You lose a point every time you uncover a “gay” box and are a step further away from getting a PG-13 rating by the MPAA.  

Scores and goals:

In the end, all your points from the different questions and tasks are added up and you get a total score. 

If you go over 100 points, the MPAA will give you another rating than the one you were trying to get and the game is over.  If you get a total score between 70 and 100 points, you have won the game and your movie gets the rating you tried to achieve. However, the ultimate score of The Final Rating is 100 points, which should be the over-all goal for experienced players.