Stop the Nonsense

When you think of a film that has been rated 18 what do you think of?  The Exorcist?  Texas Chain Saw Massacre?  Debbie Does Dallas perhaps?

Well if the Primary care trust of Liverpool gets it's way, yet another famous movie character may well join this illustrious roll call.  If they are to have their way, Popeye the sailor man will only be able to be viewed in cinemas by people over the age of eighteen.

Has he gone hardcore with Olive Oyl?  Did he off long time nemesis Bluto with a blow torch in a ten minute slow mo?  Did he sneak into Sweet Peas bedroom and take inappropriate snaps, and then post them on the internet?  No, they feel our spinach munching hero warrants censure, because he smokes a pipe.

In their warped world, this promotes smoking, which is bad, and could be responsible for the young and impressionable suddenly feeling the urge to go out and spark up.  If this is the case, why haven't the millions of youngsters acquired an undying love of spinach?  I'll tell you why.  Because it is pure uncut 100% nonsense.

Just as an afterthought, films now playing at your local multiplex that are rated as 12A, include Terminator Salvation,Angels and Demons and Transformers, all stocked to the brim with lashings of violence, death, murder and general mayhem.  Hell even Hangover, a movie about a drunken Bender around Las Vegas is a mere 15.  At least none of them feature anybody smoking, I suppose.