 Complete the following phrase:  Cinemations advertising style and the films rating led many to believe that Fritz the Cat was a pornographic film. When it was introduced as such at a showing at the University of Southern California, Bakshi stated firmly, Fritz the Cat is not pornographic. In May 1972, Variety reported that Krantz had appealed the X rating, saying Animals having sex isnt pornography. The MPAA refused to hear the appeal. The misconceptions about the films content were eventually cleared up when it received praise from Rolling Stone and The New York Times, and the film was accepted into the 