Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has been reclassified from universal (U) to parental guidance (PG) by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) because of “moderate violence” in a lightsaber fight.
The reclassification was revealed in the BBFC’s 2024 annual report, which said the 1999 film’s starship dogfights, use of laser weapons, and the battle, which shows brief “bloody detail” and a “non-graphic” shot of a villain’s dissected body, had led to it being labelled PG for its cinema re-release last year.
