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South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut |
by TheMole
"Is this why Charles Schulz retired?"

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'South Park' is an acquired taste--some people just don't like their comedy crude, raunchy or lacquered with profanity. But personally I'm distrustful of someone who doesn't appreciate this type of unabashed humor. Not someone who doesn't find it funny, mind you, because everyone's sense of humor varies. But a person who'd actually find this type of humor offensive or inappropriate (and believe me these sad little people are everywhere) is not the type of overly-self-serious person I'd trust to collect my garbage, no less run the country. And so, if you're like me, 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut' stands as an excellent acid-test for the type of people you want to hang out with.I moan at the mere thought of enduring an animated musical. Not that I have anything against musicals as a genre, but usually these things provoke one's hand to uncontrollably smack the face of the person who dragged you to the latest Disney tripe. And so I was pleased and surprised that the South Park movie is at its heart a fine animated musical.
The movie revolves around the delightful misadventures of four little scamps in their backwoods redneck Colorado town, as they learn all sorts of groovy profanity from a movie starring their favorite flatulence-plagued Canadians Terence & Phillip. Their parents decide they must do something about their foulmouthed unsupervised disobedient children, and so they declare war on Canada. Like so many other misguided protests, the war on Canada is led by Kyle's bitch mom. One of the highlights of the movie is when Cartman sings a delightful little ditty detailing just what an incredible bee-atch Kyle's bitch mom really is.
My favorite song, though, was Terence & Phillip's rendition of the classic standard "Unclefucker". For a week I strode around town singing aloud the joyous refrains of unclefucking--that is, until some guy threatened to beat me up in front of his young children. Some people simply don't appreciate the classics!
I'm sad to say I cannot give 'SP:B,L&U' a wholehearted recommendation, as I found the laugh-count considerably less than their made-for-TV masterworks 'Pinkeye' and 'Damien,' and there were a few too many songs. And I was disappointed that characters like Stan's Vietnam-veteran uncle and his voice-box buddy didn't play a larger role in the plot, especially considering that it centers around war. And while Satan played a large role in the movie, Jesus and his public-access TV show never made an appearance. And it was downright unsettling that, surrounded by all that music, Chef never sang one of his too-suggestive love songs.
Still, all-in-all, this is excellent entertainment the whole family can enjoy. Come along children, sing along: "Shut your fucking face, unclefucker! You're a dirty mother-fucker, unclefucker!" Cha-cha-cha.'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut' should be used as an acid-test for the President 2000 campaign--any candidate who doesn't pass should be immediately deported to Canada! That'll teach them damn dirty Canucks!
link directly to this review at https://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=738&reviewer=177 originally posted: 01/20/00 18:08:12
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USA 30-Jun-1999 (R)
UK N/A
Australia 15-Jul-1999 (R)
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