Most people who didn't read the book would think this movie is going to be steamy. After all, isn't bondage and a little bit of S&M sound super naughty to you? It does! But France read the book. And they think it's super lame.

So lame that they're going to allow 12-year-olds to watch the flick.

Jean-Francois Mary, president of France’s Board of Film Classification, deemed that Fifty Shades of Grey ‘isn’t a film that can shock a lot of people.’

Mr Mary considers the film, that contains scenes of nudity and sadomasochism between an entrepreneur and a virginal student, ‘a romance, you could even say schmaltzy.’

The ’12’ rating follows accusations by several American and British reviewers that the film is too tame.

In a barrage of reviews published on Tuesday night, most of those who sat down with the raunchy adaptation ahead of its 13 February release date lamented its ‘run-of-the-mill’ lovemaking.

One critic pointed out that sex only makes up 15 minutes of the two-hour runtime. Another pointed out that there are no visible genitals, no orgasms – and not that much nudity.