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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Starring: Deb Adair, Mary Kay Bergman, Franchesca Clifford, George Clooney, Stewart Copeland Directed By: Trey Parker Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Paramount Pictures Number of Discs: 1 Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 23, 1999 Running Time: 81 minutes Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 1999
Amazon.com: OK, let's get all the disclaimers out of the way first. Despite its colorful (if crude) animation, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is in no way meant for kids. It is chock full of profanity that might even make Quentin Tarantino blanch and has blasphemous references to God, Satan, Saddam Hussein (who's sleeping with Satan, literally), and Canada. It's rife with scatological humor, suggestive sexual situations, political incorrectness, and gleeful, rampant vulgarity. And it's probably one of the most brilliant satires ever made. The plot: flatulent Canadian gross meisters Terrance and Philip hit the big screen, and the South Park quartet of third graders--Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman--begin repeating their profane one-liners ad infinitum. The parents of South Park, led by Kyle's overbearing mom, form "Mothers Against Canada," blaming their neighbors to the north for their children's corruption and taking Terrance and Philip as war prisoners. It's up to the kids then to rescue their heroes from execution, not mention a brooding Satan, who's planning to take over the world.
Bigger, Longer, and Uncompromising Outstanding! 5 Stars. This is how it's done. Stay true to the spirit and vision of the TV series and put in what would otherwise be in the TV show if TV didn't have to cater to lame, uptight, humorless people all the time. But it is precisely because of society's weirdness, stupidy, and strange mores that makes South Park possible in the first place. It is only out of the sheer wackyness of America that South Park comes from and reason why it is so funny. And I shouldn't be too down on America. I mean it's not like were in China or some crazy Muslim country. I'm sorry but those people are crazy.
"Bigger, Longer, & Uncut" makes me picture a gigantic uncircumcised wang which is a little funny I guess, but mainly just an image I'd prefer not to have in the first place. Where they really knocked it out of the park (no pun intended. really) is with the music numbers!! Great stuff. And I'm no big fan of musicals. Though come to think of it South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, -they all are great when it comes to the musical number. I don't understand people taking issue with South Park's animation being "crude". The style of animation is part of the charm of the show and it's characters and what makes it funny. It looks kind of absurd the way the characters move around sort of like puppets and there is very little detail to buildings and things.
The highlights of this great American comedy are so many, but the "Uncle F----" song is a favorite. And The Mole. When The Mole cursed god! Soo funny. My friends and I noticed that none of the black people in the audience laughed during that part which was an interesting social observation to us at the time. Having the plot center on Terrance and Phillip, the end of the world and the return of Satan -- all because of censorship and intolerance, you simply cannot top. They outdid themselves.
There are relatively few contemporary movies I've seen in the theater that I feel are perfectly realized artistic achievements. And that are as entertaining. Trey Parker and Matt Stone who are big fans of Mike Judge said that Judge did the smart thing with "Beavis and Butthead Do America" and by smart they meant safe. Judge made a movie that was fairly safe for the general public. I think South Park's creators got it backwards on that. They did the smart thing with their movie. Out of all the TV cartoon series movies South Park's is the best.
So very funny!!!!!! Even if you've never seen the show, this movie puts it all together. I didn't even mind it being a musical. Very explicit, not for the little ones.
Bigger, Longer...and where is the second South Park movie?? I just watched this movie again tonight....and I'm happy to say that it really holds up well! The satire is right on and repeated viewings allow me to see new nuances and jokes that I missed earlier. This is always the sign of a classic movie! Sure the language is pretty foul...but that's the whole point, you uncle f****eer!
Love it. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are geniuses. How do they come up with this stuff.
Now this is one hilarious movie. Will really make you laugh. However, this stuff needs to stay away from Kids. This is not meant for Kids at all. Also this is not a subject you would want to seriously discuss about. If you want to have a good laugh and have some fun, this is a movie to watch. For that matter all the Seasons of South Park will do the job.
Not as good as the cartoon. It's ok, just ok. The script is the usual ridiculous South Park fare. Nothing new or innovative, this entire movie could have been split up into different episodes for tv. Sorry but Beavis and Butthead do America at least had a reason to be on the big screen. There was an actual story behind the annoying laughing. South Park should have just stayed on tv. Sorry but I'm going to recommend this to hardcore South Park fans only.
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