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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: How could a decent person enjoy this movie?
Review: There are at least two questions about the South Park in "Who wants to be a millionaire", and the two contestants insisted, before answering the questions correctly, that they had never seen the South Park. When a friend asked me what Robin Williams was singing about at the Oscar night, I found myself answering: "you don't want to know." So if you are a person who is a little bit conservative and likes to be politically correct, can you enjoy the South Park movie without feeling guilty about it? Here are some reasons that you may:

First, the South Park movie, like its TV shows, takes issue on politics/society in a light-hearted way. The movie deals with a much bigger issue: how people desire to make the society/nation the way they think it is right to such an extent that they would rather use violence (or called military action) to get it. In the movie the idea is totally fictitious and funny, out of the theatre it is a sad cold reality. Seldom movies I have seen can be so serious and funky at the same time. If you think the topic is too big, well, the movie also sends a message about children should take responsibility of their own lives instead of blaming the society.

Second, if you are a musical fan like me, you may really enjoy the movie. It is not just a movie with some funny songs in it; it really has some Broadway musical style! And the songs fit in the plot perfectly. One climax is when the Terrace and Philip is captured, four songs from four players of the game (Mother Against Canada, Terrace and Philip from jail, Children from La Resistance, Satan from hell) weave together, making this ridiculous moment strangely intense and exciting. My personal favorite is "What Would Brian Boitano Do". Satan's "Up there" is very sweet. The school principal's "It's easy, mmmkay" is made just for him.

Comparing to the TV episodes, the movie gives those F words the right purpose to be there. And Kenny rarely has such a meaningful death. (Way to go Kenny!) It is full of sarcastic jokes, but I doubt small children should apprehend them, an R rate is necessary.

See it, if you don't like it just blame Canada, you have nothing to lose.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Obscenely Brilliant. An Effing Stroke of Genius
Review: This movie is exactly what a lot of tight-arsed people need to see, to give them a sense of perspective about what's really "bad".

The more this movie upsets someone, the more they NEED to see it, and if they don't get over it and enjoy then they're the very problem the movie addresses/mocks.

Bear in mind that the TV show, aside from the Christmas special, holds no candle to either this or the original Spirit of Christmas demo which got South Park signed in the first place. Be sure to hunt down the public domain demo online and view that as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's The Best!
Review: As a loyal fan of South Park, I have to say that South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is the best adult-oriented movie ever made. Everything about it is simply too cool for words. Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady and everyone else involved with it really did an excellent job!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A poor movie.
Review: It's not that I completely dislike South Park. I think that some intelligence is behind the humour, and, in spite of the crudeness and profanity, would rather my children watch this than many of the movies and TV shows out there now.

But I honestly can't rate this baseness, this shock humor, with more than a single star. I am not in favor of censorship, I am quite liberal, and I don't have any objections to this being out there. But the language and the meanness are blunt, and not delicate or unsubtle. I would call this out-and-out mean and crude, and not define it as satire. Satire implies a dryness, a cleverness. This movie didn't have it. So I cannot say that this is a movie of good quality.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ...
Review: It's vulgar. It's obscene. It's profane. It's offensive. It's socially irresponsible. It's suggestive. It's inappropriate. It's politically incorrect. In short, it's a masterpiece.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: ...it must be good to be evil sometimes...
Review: This is by far the most vulgar movie I have ever seen; it should definitely not be viewed by children under any circumstances. But, it's R-rated right, so only adults can see it, right (how ironic that in the movie itself the children see an R-rated movie)...

Behind the vulgarity, however is a priceless critique of American society. It hits the mark on a wide variety of issues, from intolerance to bigotry. I was pleasantly surprised that the movie was released as is; I would have expected it to be censored. Maybe there is hope for this country after all...

I do have one complaint: the critique never really goes deep enough; it only scratches the surface of problems. But, who really ever goes deep enough?

The dialogues are clever and the music is surprisingly good. I can't get some of the melodies and lyrics out of my head.

"What is evil anyway? Without evil there would be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes."

Get the DVD, it allows you to get to the 'best' parts quickly, it helps you to get all of the lyrics right, and see some things otherwise very difficult to catch (like the Jesus cameo).

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: TV show is great....movie is not so much..
Review: First I must say I love the tv show. I have been watching South Park since the first episode before it took off. But the movie has two sides to it. The sceens involving the boys are hilarious. The part involving the secondary characters aren't. The Satan stuff isn't funny. It's just plain stupid and boring. If the movie could be edited with the Satan parts removed it would go up many levels. Focus on the boys.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Where are the special features?
Review: First off I would like to say that I laughed my ass off the first time I saw this movie! I could tell at times that the directors were just trying to push the limits of what they could get away with in a movie. Watching how the creators were allowed to get away with this stuff is sometimes as funny as the movie itself. There was so much swearing in the movie, I started swearing like twice as much myself after seeing the movie (it really desensatizes you to the f word after a while). I am from Canada as well, and I really didn't mind the Canadian jokes, but they weren't nearly as funny as I hoped the would be. The problem with this DVD is the lack of special features. There are so many cool things that could have been done with this movie, yet all it gives you is a couple of trailers that you could download anyways if you really wanted to. This DVD really isn't worth picking up, maybe you should grab the VHS previously viewed though, because it is damned funny. That is of course if you can stand seeing this sweet animation in 1/2 the resolution =-)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: If only *ZERO* stars were an option for this movie...
Review: South Park cartoons have many creative and yes, funny ideas and biting satires and revealing insights. But why must these cartoons be couched in such locker room humor and vile language?

The movie was more of the same. I watched the first 45 minutes and was just plain grossed out. If the *f* word were removed from this movie, it'd cut out half the dialogue.

Yes - there are funny parts here and there - but the snatches of humor are lost amidst the degradation of everything good and decent.

It's like wading through vast piles of sewage and trash to find a small perishable treasure. The enjoyment of the occasional joke is lost amidst the stench of the profanity and revilement.

In 1946, censors derided "It's a Wonderful Life" because Jimmy Stewart said "nuts to you" in one scene.

This movie should have an X-rating. How it came through with the milder rating, I'll never understand.

And to throw the protective cloak of the first amendment over this flick (as a prior reviewer did) is an afront to Elijah Lovejoy, the first martyr of the free press who laid down his life for the first amendment. Old Elijah would be spinning in his grave to think he died so that profane cartoons (Such as South Park) could flourish.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: HILLEROUS, BUT WENT TO FAR
Review: i really thought it was a great movie(at times) It was funny. I burst out laghing a lot of times. Like the way kenny dies is really funny. Although there were 2 BIG PROBLEMS. The first one is there is to much cursing. You can't watch as a family. Then the worst part of this movie is the way the kid who smokes, at the end talks very, very bad about God that was not needed at ALL.


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