The MPAA rating of Beauty and the Beast is G. The Motion Picture Association classified Disney’s 1991 animated film as “G,” meaning it was considered suitable for general audiences.
The rating reflected the film’s family-oriented presentation despite its darker fairy-tale elements. The story includes an enchanted castle, frightening wolves, a cursed prince, and a climactic fight between the Beast and Gaston, but the violence is brief and stylized rather than graphically depicted.
The rating is sometimes confused with PG because later Disney films and some intense fantasy adventures received that classification. Beauty and the Beast’s G rating applied to the original American theatrical release. Ratings can differ internationally: organizations in other countries use their own systems, so a foreign home-video label may not display a G even though the U.S. MPAA rating was G.