A Very Naughty Bear? Paddington Movie Gets PG Rating From BBFC Thanks To 'Innuendo' And 'Dangerous Behaviour'
The long awaited Paddington Bear movie, which opens in UK theatres next weekend (November 28th) has been given a parental guidance reference by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The PG rating was given after the classifications board found the film contained "dangerous behaviour, mild threat, innuendo and mild bad language.”
The loveable Bear's dangerous behaviour includes a scene in which he is “hiding from a villain inside a refrigerator” and another where he rides “on a skateboard while holding on to a bus,” according to the BBFC.
Paddington also encounters mild threat when he “lies unconscious on a table while a taxidermist prepares their tools nearby,” and when he finds himself in a jungle during an earthquake.
As for the mild bad language, in one scene the word ‘bloody’ is mumbled.
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But the most surprising element of the film’s PG rating comes from the ‘innuendo’, which was originally listed as ‘mild sex references’. What sex references could there possibly be in a movie about Paddington Bear?
Well, (and massive spoiler alert) the film contains a scene “in which a man disguised as a woman is flirted with by another man”, which the BBFC sees as an example of “mild innuendo”. The description was changed on Tuesday from "mild sex references" to "innuendo" after the movie's distributor objected.
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