The lower US rating has led to one outraged director, Mike Birbiglia, to question the MPAA after they gave his upcoming comedy, Don’t Think Twice, an R-Rating.
Suicide Squad opens this weekend in the US and UK and has been met with relatively negative reviews by critics.
A spokesperson for the MPAA declined to speak to Variety on the matter, while other directors, including Trainwreck’s Judd Apatow, offered up sympathetic words for Birbiglia.
“Suicide Squad has machine gun killings and bombings and got a PG-13 rating,” he wrote on Twitter.