[James2001]

Though the U rating never really meant "suitable for kids" as such anyway, just that it didn't have anything particularly graphic or offensive in. But standards do seem to have tightened in recent years, seems to be harder to get U or PG ratings than it used to be (though it's also happened at the other end of the scale where you really have to push hard to get an 18 rating as well, and things like the Godfather and Die Hard films have been downrated to 15). Maybe they wouldn't get U rated if they were rated now. The amount of previously U stuff being upped to PG and PG upped to 12/12A (and even a couple of cases of U being upped to 12) when being resubmitted over the last few years is quite large ("bitch" now seems to warrant an automatic 12 rating with the BBFC's iupdated guidelines, so a lot of PG stuff is going to be uprated just because of that.. which explains why Casper is now a 12 when it doesn't really warrant it).