The demented 3D sequel / reboot of Hong Kong softcore favourite Sex and Zen - the clumsily titled Sex and Zen 3D: Extreme Ecstacy is coming to the UK with two minutes of sex cut from it.

The film, which has been passed uncut by censors in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, has fallen foul of the BBFC's fixation with sexual violence and (arguably) their toughening up of attitudes. The British are, after all, much more easily influenced by what they see on screen that anyone else.

Distributors Metrodome have been forced to cut scenes of 'non-consensual' and 'violent' sex, which are, by all accounts, presented in the slapstick style that only Hong Kong filmmakers can still get away with. Potential viewers will be glad to hear that apparently all the shots of giant penises remain intact.

UPDATE:

Sex and Zen 3D has, unsurprisingly, been saddled with the restrictive NC-17 rating in the US. Thanks to America's rather ridiculous ratings system, this is the only age-restrictive movie rating and, despite having changed back in the 1990's from the X rating that came to symbolise hardcore porn to most people, the rating still sees films routinely refused cinema space and press advertising. To make things worse, most of the independent cinemas that might have taken the film are not equpped to show 3D movies.So US fans will need luck on their side if they want to catch it in it's eye-popping glory on the big screen. At least it'll be uncut though.