St Trinians - 12a.. wth

[Moh]

Well I just noticed St Trinians was a 12a. How on earth did that class as a 12a? It should be a 15.

[jesus]

12 yr olds are the new 18 yr olds! smoking, swearing, gettin preggerz etc... :rolleyes:

[Naruto!]

haven't seen it but why should it be a 15?

[MrPinkPanther]

It shouldnt? Theres nothing bad in it atall well in a age rating sense, the movies bad.

[Moh]

It shouldnt? Theres nothing bad in it atall well in a age rating sense, the movies bad.

Not enought male on male action for you?

Well theres alot of sexual scenes in it, yea, our parents would let us watch it still but I wouldn't of thought they would have rated it as a 12a.

[french]

Theres no sexual contact in it. Just at the bit where the guy was in the posh girls room and he had a spider in his pants and then it made him look like he had a... yeah.

But obviously a 12 year old understands what's happening .

[Moh]

Theres no sexual contact in it. Just at the bit where the guy was in the posh girls room and he had a spider in his pants and then it made him look like he had a... yeah.

But obviously a 12 year old understands what's happening .

Russell Brand gets touched up..
Theres a dog humping some ones leg...

[Kardan]

Russell Brand gets touched up..
Theres a dog humping some ones leg...

Well I just noticed St Trinians was a 12a. How on earth did that class as a 12a? It should be a 15.

You'd be surprised at the 12 year olds around my area with what they say and do.

[Moh]

Im not on about how 12s are, but look at a 15, it can contain less sexual content and swearing in and still be rated as a 15.

[Naruto!]

"Odeon and Warner cinema websites both still say "TBC", though the BBFC website passed it on 12th December with a "12A" rating at 100minutes and 42 seconds with no cuts made, and their decision reads as follows:

ST TRINIAN'S is a British comedy film about anarchic schoolgirls attempting to save their school from closure. It has been passed '12A' for moderate sex references, comic violence and drug use.

The BBFC's Guidelines at '12A' with regard to sex references state that 'Sexual activity may be implied. Sex references may reflect what is likely to be familiar to most adolescents but should not go beyond what is suitable for them'. The film contains some moderate sex references but these are euphemistic rather than strong and direct and whilst being stronger than the mild sex references or innuendo allowed at 'PG', are appropriately containable at '12A'.

The moderate comic violence occasionally contains more detail than is allowable at 'PG', particularly when a negatively presented girl from a rival school delivers a headbutt to one of the St Trinian's girls on the hockey pitch in a scene that is repeated during the closing credit titles, but this is fleeting and lacking in detail and any emphasis on injuries and blood and is acceptable at '12A'.

As for drug use, '12A' Guidelines state that 'Any misuse of drugs must be infrequent and should not be glamorised or instructional' and this film occasionally contains comic references to what are either unidentified drugs - some of which are referred to as 'red 'uns' or 'blue 'uns' - or to 'mushrooms' used to lace tea but which are never seen being prepared or ingested and these scenes of misuse or references neither glamorise the drugs nor instruct in their usage and so are containable at '12A'."