Sweden is so chill you can go and see Sausage Party aged 7
The extremely graphic animated comedy is rated 15 in the UK
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Your support makes all the difference.Sausage Party - a new animated comedy from the mind of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill - tells the story of a sausage named Frank who, along with an array of other supermarket foods, attempts to discover the truth behind his existence.
Don't let the fact it's an animation fool you - this is one film that's not for children. Filled with drug use, F-bombs aplenty and one hell of a leftfield sex scene, Sausage Party could very well be the year's most debauched cinema release.
In Sweden, you can see this film as young as seven.
A far cry from the BBFC's decision to hand it a 15-certificate in the UK, the Swedish Media Council has rather leniently given Sausage Party an 11-rating which allows children over the age of 7 to see the film so long as they're accompanied by an adult.
Fortunately, this Swedish cinema's website appears to notice the accepted age limit as remarkably young - the final line of its written synopsis warns: "Sausage Party is NOT a family movie."
Take it from us - this is not a film you want to see with your parents at any age, let alone such a young one. Don't believe us? Then cast your eyes at advisory website Kids In Mind which provided a detailed list of Sausage Party's graphic scenes.
Such a scene includes a moment where "four items make an anal-vaginal-oral daisy chain, all thrusting wildly as a taco sucks violently on a hotdog."
Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Edward Norton and Salma Hayek all provide voicework for the film, the latter playing a lesbian taco named Teresa.
Sausage Party is released in the UK on 2 September.
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