The MPAA took issue with several scenes, including Murphy's death and ED-209 shooting an executive. The violent scenes were shortened and media breaks were added to help lighten the mood. The MPAA also objected to a scene of a mutated Emil being disintegrated by Boddicker's car; but Verhoeven, Davison, and Orion refused to remove it because it consistently received the biggest laughs during test screenings. Verhoeven made the violence comical and surreal, and believed the cuts made the scenes appear more, not less, violent. He remarked that his young children laughed at the X-rated cut, and audiences laughed less at the R-rated version. Verhoeven said people "love seeing violence and horrible things." The film was released in the United Kingdom without cuts, the rating board there stating that the comic excess of the violence and the clear line between the hero and villains justified it. The complete version of "RoboCop" runs for 103 minutes.