As I wrote in my review of the BBFC in 2016: http://zummer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-oscars-and-razzies-for-bbfc-2016.html, I thought 12A was an overreaction. I thought it could easily have been contained at PG. The 'boob-groping' that made it a 12A was humorous rather than dirty.
What do you guys think?
In my country, the Philippines, the rating label for this film was Rated: GP (General Patronage or suitable for all ages) when it was shown here last month. The breast grouping scene there was too short & mild, and also a breast scene there was covered by a white light.
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Heyyyyyyyyy! Yeah, it was dumb. Shouldn't expect much else, but there was definitely nothing erotic about any of it, and animated imagery shouldn't be enough to earn it that rating. I guess the bit where she slaps him for touching her boobs or whatever it was maybe muddies the waters a little, but 12A is still definitely extreme.
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Haha, I know! I saw it in cinema last week and I thought what the objectionate content would be. Was it the character touching their boobs? As there was certainly nothing else I could think of anything else. Well, this is the BBFC justification, which I found a bit ridiculous. My neighbour Totoro features more content thank this... Certainly an overreaction.
LANGUAGE
There is infrequent moderate bad language (eg 'dick').
SEX
In several scenes a male character who has woken up in a female character's body reacts by feeling her breasts. Other infrequent visual sex references include a brief close up shot of a character's chest as she plays basketball.
Other issues include sequences of mild threat as characters attempt to evacuate a town before it is destroyed by a meteor. These sequences are not overly intense or sustained.
In the beginning there was nothing, and it exploded.
PG sounds reasonable to me. I was in a cinema where I'm pretty certain there were kids younger than 12. But there is a little more in this film than some boob fondling and it had typical manga schoolgirl imagery that does give a parent pause for thought.
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