Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, your place on the Avocado to discuss films with your fellow commenters. Want to make a recommendation? Looking for recommendations? Want to share your opinions of movies, both new and classic?

Traditionally, most animated movies have been rated G. Nowadays, there seems to be just as many that are rated PG. This year’s Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, for example.

Then there are the PG-13 movies. Typically most Western animated films don’t do well here — animation is typically for kids, and the you get to the teens the only cool animation is anime. So, like, better luck next time, Beowulf. Go suck a lemon, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Go… do a great job, Dragon Ball: Super Hero.

And Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, I guess. Boy, a little surprised that was PG-13.

But then there are the absolute sickos who get into making R-rated animated features. Cartoons aren’t for kids anymore!

Interestingly, these often go down as some of the most influential works in animation. Maybe it’s the sheer audacity that someone would make a movie about a telekinetic kid whose powers hamper his ability to yell “Kaneda!” Maybe it’s lampooning Americans ignoring the problems in society and instead blaming, say, Canada.

Or maybe it’s got a hot babe riding a pterodactyl.

It could be argued that these movies are still aimed at the same audience that the PG-13 ones are. I’m pretty sure I saw Akira as a teen, for example. The license to go into more risque material allows the artists to unleash some stunning imagery that can’t be seen in films of a lower rating —- even if that imagery is Richard Linklater’s trademark rotoscoped look.

Today’s bonus prompt: what is your favorite R-rated animated film?