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Utter solitude wrote: It's PG? XD I guess they figure the racy undertones will sail over kids' heads. Yup.... Disney's marketing campaign was really strange, for Maleficent. One of the trailers, was totally targeted at younger children.

From what I understand, the script was originally going to be even darker. They removed some details, which would have been major taboos, to make the film more "family-friendly". At one point, Sefan was revealed to be the illegitimate son, of King Henry and the fairy queen. Making him Maleficent's cousin, and (dun, dun, dun).... his wife's half-brother. Thank goodness, that part was cut out. Not that the final film was child-friendly, by any means.