Mark Carroll's Journal

A friend made an astute observation about South Park, the other year. It's a cartoon for adults. The themes are adults. It's utterly inappropriate for children. A lot of the controversy seems to stem from people making the mistake of assuming that a cartoon with children in it is a children's cartoon.

So: child characters does not imply children's movie. Does the absence of child characters imply it's not a children's movie?

Which brings me to my main question: what's the difference between a movie for children that adults also enjoy, and a movie for all ages? Star Wars, for example, is U-rated in the UK.