If you have had a problem with young children spoiling your enjoyment of 12A films at the cinema, while we can do nothing about individual cases, this is a matter which we recognise is of some concern to the public. We have had a number of complaints and we have raised them with the Cinema Exhibitors Association, the industry body for cinemas throughout the UK. Cinema managers have the power to refuse entry to anyone whom they reasonably consider to be disruptive and we would strongly recommend that anyone whose enjoyment of a film is spoiled by noisy or disruptive young children should make their views known to cinema managers or staff.
The BBFC undertook when it launched the new category that we would keep it under review. We will be consulting the public later this year about the whole classification system and the question of whether we should consider introducing a lower age restriction on the 12A category will be included in that consultation exercise.