To be honest, I've seen WAY WAY WAY worse PG-13 movies. Seriously, and this is the logic I use with my mom sometimes, who is really touchy about anything outside of a PG movie. Most times, I would rather go see an R rated movie rather than a PG-13. At least with R, I know exactly what I'll be getting. I know to expect that kind of stuff. But with PG-13, you never know anymore. It might be something like Terminator: Salvation, which, with the exception of some swearing and violence/gore, was actually a pretty mild PG-13 IMO. TF2 actually had more swearing in it that Terminator, I think, lol.
And on that point, I'll agree with obi1. TF2 is marketed as a kid's movie. Actually, it's some of the same arguments I made against Watchmen when it came out. I'm not a prude, and I enjoy a wide range of movies (for instance, I thought Zack & Miri was hilarious), but Watchmen, similar to TF2, had way too much in it that just wasn't
necessary for the film. And in both instances, they are marketed to audiences that are way younger than they should be. Watchmen was rated R, but as a comic book film, you can bet every dollar in your bank account that the studio execs were shooting for the younger teenage boys to get them to convince their parents/older siblings/etc. to take them to see it. So, an R rated film, which is intended for audiences 17 and older, but it's marketed to 13-16 year olds. And TF2, between the toys and other stuff, is targeted at boys aged 8-12. But it was rated PG-13...so, recommended for 13 and older, yet marketed to younger category. Terminator is very different. Everybody is familiar with the Terminator series, and that it's aimed at violence, languague, and an older crowd. So people were shocked that this latest one was only PG-13, and then I was shocked further that it was fairly tame for a PG-13.
TF2 is vastly different. The first Transformers was also rated PG-13, and had MUCH less 'questionable' content in it, so it should've been expected for TF2 to be similar. Instead, it had a ton more stuff like that in it, most of which added absolutely nothing to the film. The two dogs? Once was bad enough. But it was quick, a funny little thing, and introduced the fact that the family had adopted a 2nd dog, and that the mom was adding bling to it just as badly as she'd done with Mojo, which was a running gag from the first film. OK, that's fine. But to show them AGAIN outside a few minutes later? Absolutely unnecessary. And while I thought the Twin autobots were fairly funny, and the one line where the call Leo a pussy was absolutely beautiful scripting/timing, otherwise, their language was pretty out there, and just to further give them the "gansta" feel. So yeah, unnecessary. They would've had that feel without the language as well.
It's not so much about people being oversensitive, or not being "adult" enough to just look the other way. It's about thinking about ALL the people who might be interested to see this film. As I said before, the first one was pretty clean overall, with the only that pops into my mind being the part where Sam yells "$#!T, $#!T, $#!T" as Barricade is chasing him the first time. Otherwise, there's very little other foul language in the film, and very little sexual stuff at all. Not so with TF2
Here's a good example of why this is important to some people. I've got a friend at work, who hangs out with his nephew a lot, and his nephew loved the first TF movie. This kid is like 6 or 7 maybe. My buddy at work is your average guy, likes RPGs, used to play SWMs (can't seem to get him interested again), likes a whole range of stuff, etc. Fairly typical guy. Doesn't come from a heavy religious background or anything like that, neither does the rest of his family. His nephew has been talking for weeks about seeing TF2, but after my friend saw it, he said that he felt he wouldn't be able to take his nephew to see it, because of all that extra content. Young kids are impressionable, and it's nice to not cram that kind of stuff down their throats through popular movies that they are interested in, ESPECIALLY when it has nothing to do with the movie.
Sorry this is a tad long. I just get fed up with people taking these sorts of arguments to the extreme of accusing the other party of saying stuff like "if somebody is holding hands it should be rated R" (which, Zack, is more or less what you were saying). That's not the point. The point is, sure that extra stuff is funny, but it belongs in a Seth Rogen or Adam Sandler movie, not in a movie about giant robots.