South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut

South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Cast: Animated
Studio: Paramount
Rating: 7/10

A mind boggling, non-stop tornado of profanity, South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut goes places few films would ever dare. The barrage of obscenities is so unrelenting that I think I need to see it again; some of them are worth remembering. It is epic naughtiness and very funny, more than once I laughed until I couldn’t breathe.

Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who also voice the majority of the lead characters, have an almost unbelievable talent for pushing the envelope. Their last movie, Orgazmo , earned an NC-17 rating, but South Park is far more deserving. Parker and Stone apparently submitted this movie to the MPAA (the people responsible for giving ratings) more than once before finally getting the rating the studio was after. The MPAA probably gave it an R just so they wouldn’t have to sit through it again. I like to imagine them pursing their lips and wincing with disapproval.

Bigger, Longer and Uncut starts with the boys (Kenny, Stan, Kyle, and Eric Cartman) paying a homeless man to buy them tickets to the R rated Terrance and Phillip movie, Asses of Fire. Terrance and Phillip are the stars of a popular series on television. Their film is stuffed full of four letter words and raunchy insults which the kids take back to the playground, where they are quickly emulated by the other third-graders. Once the parents get wind, particularly Kyle’s reactionary mom, all hell breaks loose. The South Park PTA takes up the cause and soon the United States has declared war on Canada. Kenny recreates a moment from the movie, sets himself on fire, and dies. He goes to Hell, where he becomes something of a confidante to Satan. It seems his boyfriend, Saddam Hussein, doesn’t spend enough time communicating. Though the story is well realized, it’s almost secondary to the fact that Parker and Stone are seeing just how much they can get away with.

The movie is stocked with musical numbers from beginning to end. The songs are more clever and lively than anything Disney has put out in recent years. Unfortunately, there are too many of them and they get a little old toward the movie’s end. But I left the theater humming Terrance and Phillip’s infectious “Uncle F***a”.

This movie will undoubtedly be held up by self-righteous parents and members of Congress as a perfect example of Hollywood’s evil ways. Granted, there’s something to offend everyone in South Park, but that’s precisely its point. If you are easily incensed by political incorrectness, stay away from this movie. But if well-written, junior high humor appeals to your inner arrested adolescent, Bigger, Longer and Uncut will be your Citizen Kane.

+ David Kern


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