We didn’t think the film Trolls promoted cannibalism.
According to The Mirror, nine movies were the subject of complaints from the public to the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) last year.
A total of 14 complaints were received and even included animated comedies like Trolls and The Secret Life of Pets.
The fifth instalment of Jason Bourne attracted the highest number of complaints in 2016 with five while Daddy’s Home received two complaints.
One of those complaints from Daddy’s Home came from a father who had brought his three children, all under the age of 12, to see the movie although it was certified 12A.
The father was not happy with the amount of nudity in the film and was extremely angered by a phrase in the movie where “the main actor got really drunk and then proclaimed he had made love to his wife using his pee-pee.”
A complaint received from a cinema in Co. Mayo regarding the Batman v Superman movie was also met with a similar view.
The person in question watched the movie in Castlebar and believed that the context of the film was “very satanistic” and that there was “Illuminati symbology” used throughout.
As well as this, Trolls, an animated comedy about stationery received a complaint that stated that the movie promoted “genocidal cannibalism with [a] sub-context of substance addiction”.
Other complaints received by IFCO last year related to The Girl on the Train, Suicide Squad, Deadpool, and Spotlight.
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