Chill, buddy, you see only ‘some’ skin

You have to wonder what goes through the minds of the good American citizens who sit on the MPAA ratings board. You know who they are: the people who make up the alphabet soup that is attached to each film released in this country. My question concerns “Catwoman.” The film was rated PG-13, which officially means that “Some Material May Be Inappropriate For Children Under 13.” The board goes on to explain its reasons for this particular rating by adding that the film has “action violence and some sensuality.”

“Some” sensuality? Isn’t that like drinking “some” Drano, having “some” cancer, seeing “some” Scud missiles fall in your back yard? If you’ve seen any of the promos for the film (and you must have been visiting Tralfamadore to have missed them), you know that “Catwoman” is being sold on the basis of Halle Berry’s ample physicality . The woman who bared it all to win an Oscar in “Monster’s Ball” merely teases us here with a costume that looks as if it were constructed by a Bob Guccione in heat (if that isn’t redundant). And yet the wise folks at the MPAA say that we need worry only about “some” sensuality.

As always, you don’t need to have a lot of disrespect for the MPAA. But you should have “some.”