Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno Gets An NC-17 Rating – For Now

In the olden days, the only movies that would get slapped with an X-rating were dirty pornos. Nowadays though, we have the more sterile, less raunchy sounding NC-17 rating and it’s not just for sex movies anymore. In fact, the majority of movies that the MPAA is now deeming worthy of the NC-17 are comedies. Zack and Miri Make A Porno, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Borat all had to appeal their NC-17 rating to the MPAA to be changed to an “R.” Now the man responsible for Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen, is butting heads with the ratings board again because they’ve given his latest movie Bruno, an NC-17 as well.

What could possibly be so offensive that only mature audiences of graduating high school seniors and older can tolerate it? It’s probably the scene where Baron Cohen has anal sex with another man. Or it’s the scene where he gets a stage mother to agree to put her infant on a diet. Or maybe it’s the scene where he poses as a single, gay father who calls his baby a “dick magnet.” Or the one where he buys a black baby to become famous. No matter! We’re sure that the offensive parts of these scenes will be trimmed for the movie’s release in July so that it will eventually get an R-rating, but lucky for everyone, we’re sure they’ll be included on the DVD.