Film watchdog changes rating of 1970s mockumentary Abba: The Movie ­over references to band member Agnetha ­Faltskog's backside

It was the ace trouper ­Seventies movie astir 1 of the world's ­biggest bands.

But movie classifiers are taking nary chances connected Abba: The Movie ­nowadays implicit references to Agnetha ­Faltskog's backside.

The vocalist was described arsenic having the 'sexiest bottommost successful pop' erstwhile the movie was made successful 1977.

But the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has present changed the film's standing from a U to a PG due to the fact that of its 'mild enactment references' and 'language.'

It has besides produced caller parental guidance for the movie – 47 years aft its release.

The film, which was directed by acclaimed Swedish manager Lasse Hallstrom is simply a drama play 'mockumentary' astir the band's sellout circuit of Australia.

It follows a fictional vigor DJ arsenic helium tries to get an interrogation with the quartet – which besides includes Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

Among the scenes highlighted by the BBFC are 2 sequences erstwhile members of the set explicit 'rueful amusement' astir the Press's preoccupation with Ms Faltskog's 'bottom' – conscionable 2 years aft she won the 'Rear of the Year' award. The committee said immoderate radical mightiness find the connection 'discriminatory.'

It has besides drawn attraction to the usage of the words 'bloody,' 'God' and 'Hell' arsenic good arsenic an excerpt from the Swedish band's opus When I Kissed The Teacher. The committee besides highlighted a ­conversation betwixt set ­members erstwhile they notation to property reports astir them ordering a 'kinky velvet bed'.

When 1 of them asks what 'kinky' means, different replies it relates to 'sexual perversion'.

Parents are besides alerted to cigaret smoking successful the movie and a speech erstwhile set members archer a newsman they don't usage drugs.

­Australian novelist Kathy Lette, who has vivid memories of the band's circuit Down Under, said past nighttime she was tense astir thing which mightiness discourage children from seeing the film.

She said: 'Young girls request each the affirmative relation models they tin get, truthful I besides don't privation to marque the movie harder for them to see.'

Joking that Ms Faltskog's bottommost was bigger than the iconic Uluru monolith successful the media astatine the time, she added: 'This benignant of sexism is mode past its amuse-by date, but let's not censor oregon sanitise it.'

'[It] could beryllium a amended motorboat pad to speech to our kids astir wherefore that benignant of sexism is ­inappropriate and to exemplify that the satellite is gradually getting amended for women.'

The determination to reclassify the movie from a U to PG was taken past twelvemonth erstwhile it was resubmitted to the BBFC up of a cinema merchandise to people the band's 50th anniversary.

The BBFC said: 'The movie was classified PG for mild enactment references, language, and our extended contented advice.

'Under 2023 standards, this worldly exceeds allowances astatine U, but is wrong the model of a PG which allows for a definite magnitude of innuendo and rude humour.

'We cognize from our probe that immoderate parents are acrophobic astir introducing intersexual worldly oregon concepts to children astatine excessively aboriginal an age, and our standing and contented proposal truthful provides guidance to assistance them marque an informed decision.'

The movie was antecedently ­resubmitted to the committee successful 2008 but the determination past was to support the U certificate.