Launch "Code"? Well, mostly.

As the worldwide brouhaha over “The Da Vinci Code” continues to boil over, we really can’t see what all the fuss is about.

I mean, the AP is reporting that the Phillipine capital Manila has banned the movie, while India is both requiring it be shown with “a disclaimer” and that it be “shown to adults only.”

Have people gone utterly nuts? It’s a movie. With Tom Hanks. The idea that such a film would need to carry a disclaimer that its just fiction is as patently absurd as running “Passion of the Christ” as a documentary.

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