FUCK censorship! DAMN, No. This film is not about actual censorship. HELL, then the Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA) and their voluntary rating system are CRAP! CRAP, CRAPITY CRAP! BITCH! FART! DICK! OhÔøΩƒ∂wait. Kirby Dick is the film’s director and he’s desperate to shock. Unfortunately, he is about as successful as this first paragraph.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated follows Dick as he attempts to stunt this documentary into meaning and entertainment. He hunts down and exposes the secret identities of parents on the MPAA board responsible for film classifications that stop children from seeing Maria Bello’s pubic hair and puppets peeing on other puppets.

Dick really shows it to them. He goes all out to achieve a dreaded NC-17 rating (no admission under 17 years of age) by creating a montage of sex scenes, which makes up a fair chunk of the film. It’s all very naughty: nipples and profanities. Dick impresses with the length and girth of his lens as he transgresses through other people’s rubbish bins.

Unlike documentaries by directors like Michael Moore, Dick’s subject doesn’t matter a whole lot, let alone justify his extreme antics. Here is something really shocking: there are some things more important than film and a filmmaker’s freedom to further sexualise children for profit.

But of course, no one need look for sense. If they did, someone might mention that a film that needs graphic oral sex scenes probably SUCKS and a script that needs swearing is probably SHIT.

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