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Summary: Makes the TV show look like Sesame Street!
Review: WOW! First of all, NOTHING can prepare you for how offensive this movie is. Even though I'm a huge fan of the show, I was not prepared for how over the top this movie is. Big Gay Al leading the USO show? NAKED?? Saddam and Satan, gay lovers? With Saddam pulling out a giant, uh, toy, from under the covers as if it were his "member"? The all-black platoon being assigned to "Operation: Human Shield"? Terrance and Phillip's flatulence-filled song "Uncle F#$%er"? And, of course, Cartman's rousing new (and international!) version of the classic "Kyle's Mom's a B@#$ch!"? And that is just the tip of the iceberg . . . so, consider yourself warned.Now, once you accept all of these images and sounds, the movie itself is a hysterical send up of overactive parental groups who are quick to blame the worlds problems on the artists (or in this case, the country which produced them) instead of taking responsibility for raising their own kids. They make fun of everything and everyone along the way (including themselves, when Cartman is less than enthusiastic to see the Terrance and Phillip movie in the first place because "they're pretty funny, but the animation sucks!"). This movie really has everything: sight gags, sound gags, toilet humor, a great statement about taking responsibility instead of placing blame, and most importantly, something to offend EVERYONE - Guaranteed!!
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Summary: Brilliantly, subversively obscene
Review: A feature-length version of the cult TV show, "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" is a brilliantly subversive attack on the moral bankruptcy of the holier-than-thou types who take it upon themselves to tell everyone else how to run their lives, while featuring about a dozen musical numbers which make Disney's music sound like bland pabulum. It is also gut-bustingly funny. The story goes something like this: In the quiet Colorado town of South Park, four kids sneak into the R-rated film-within-a-film, "Terrence and Phillip," and come out gleefully repeating the many varied (and some anatomically impossible) obscenities heard in the movie. Their parents go ballistic, and in their crusade to scour all naughty language from the movies and society in general, get us into a war with Canada. Also along for the ride are Conan O'Brien, Brooke Shields, the Baldwin brothers, Bill Clinton and gay lovers Satan and Saddam Hussein (don't ask). ... "South Park: BL&U," co-written by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is likely to be the funniest cartoon feature in a long time as it skewers sacred cows and stereotypes left and right. The musical numbers, likewise satirizing everything from Disney to Rogers & Hammerstein, could carry the movie all by themselves. The terrific songs range from Satan's ballad "Up There" to the "Les Miz"-ish "La Resistance" to an "Oklahoma!"-y number from "Terrence and Phillip" (sadly, the song title itself is unprintable, to say nothing of the lyrics). One of the songs, the anti-Canadian anthem "Blame Canada," was actually nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song, but lost out to Disney's "Tarzan." (I'm sure there was some irony involved.) Parents should be aware that this cartoon film is absolutely not for kids, as it features deviant sex, some very bloody cartoon violence, and a truly stunning amount of profanity. But for everyone who is tired of people butting into everyone else's business or just needs a good, high-spirited laugh, "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" is for you.
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Summary: Great comedy with plenty of laughs
Review: South Park- Bigger, Longer and Uncut is the feature length musical about the foul-mouthed foursome, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny. The movie is about the efforts of the US to attack Canada after a Canadian movie makes a horrible impression on the children of South Park. Obviously, this isn't the deepest story, but it is still hilarious as we hear the four begin swearing at anything and everything. There are great scenes throughout including many funny songs sung by the population of South Park. This is not for kids with so much language, but it is perfect for anyone else. DVD is pretty good although it could be a lot better. Check out the foul-mouthed foursome as they almost bring the United States and Canada to war! Hilarious movie that should not be missed!
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Summary: ...before somebody thinks of blaming us...
Review: This movie, perhaps the most shocking of its year features the most dreaded thing imaginable in our society: Elementary schoolers swearing to beat the band.
Buy this movie, and watch it first for the comedy... then again with the subtitles on to see what jokes you missed... then think about the implications of the "logic" used by our american parents. In an era where any cause can be enobled by the shifting of focus to children, this movie is a wonderfully putrid antidote.
While the Saddam Hussein incidents raise hilarious parallels to our recent un-needed war with Iraq, truly consider this film in the time when it was released, not in the "post-9/11 world".
Example: Blame shifting during the Blame Canada number: a stark ccondemnation of this country's wonderful ability to pass the buck concerning the actions that our youths take. If those discordant voices remind you of the great blame debate after the Columbine incident, it is most likely good that you are seeing this film, for in its obscene art, it shows us how we can sometimes be: evasive, unreachable, irresponsible: The mothers who want their children to grow in a "smut free environment", start the third world war (in which they never place themselves at risk) to make the world safe for sensitive American children.
A cautionary tale: Censorship and labeling of things as evil are generally opposed by enlightened people---until their children's innocence is threatened.
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Summary: A Great Film
Review: One of the finest Hollywood films of the last five years. It is intelligent, well written, beautifully made and laugh out loud funny. It is also that rarest of things: a musical with a good memorable score that actually has a brain in its head. Make no mistake: South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut is one of the most devastating critiques of contemporary American life that we are likely to get from the movies. No one is spared. If you look closely, I'm sure you'll find yourself in there somewhere. A terrific movie. Fast, funny, and even oddly moving. See it.
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Summary: 5 star first half, 3 star second
Review: Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Trey Parker and Matt Stone turn there dull, yet sometimes funny show into a hilarious film. This is worth buying for the first half alone. Leonard Maltin gave this his highest rating of the year, ***1/2. I think that the first 40 minutes are some of the funniest scenes ever shot on film. Like Leonard Maltin, I think some of these songs are fantastic. What a soundtrack! Blame Canada is pretty funny, but I like the m'kay song, and the opening (there's homeless people, but you just don't care). The Terence and Phillip film is intentionally bad, and the ending is over the top with going to war with Canada. The stuff with Saddam might have seemed funny when this came out, but right now I just have to press fast-foreward. Among other things, we finally get to see Kenny's face. This owns the Guiness World Record for most swear words in a film, and its only 80 minutes! Roger Ebert gave this thumbs down, and the next South Park episode was entitled "Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods." This film took a lot of critisism, and I'm surprised they got away with it. Excellent.
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Summary: Laughed until I cried...
Review: I just finished watching this movie and I couldn't believe what I heard. This movie is DEFINITELY not for kids. Just for people who want a good laugh. I have to see it again and again because I never saw anything like it in all my life. I'm hooked on Cartman(he's the best) and I love Kenny. I hope they make a sequel.
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Summary: Until the Criterion release . . .
Review: OK, to my knowledge there isn't a Criterion version of this movie in the works, but by God there should be. What are you laughing at? When I first saw this movie in theaters it was - and still is - the only movie that I literally laughed nonstop from start to finish. People may not want to put it on the same scale of genius as Citizen Kane, probably because Orson Wells didn't use cheap animation and over 400 vulgarities, but that doesn't make any less of a great movie. Everything about this movie was inventive and pure genius, from the film's premise of the South Park kids seeing a crudely made, vulgar animated movie to the inclusion of Sadam Hussain to the absolute brilliant idea of making it a musical (by the way, "Blame Canada," should have beaten that Phil Collins Tarzan song for the Oscar, if only for Robin Williams' performance of the song during the telecast). That being said, with only three trailers as extras, this DVD really doesn't do the movie justice. And since it came out about the same time that distributors started doing the "deluxe" and "ultimate" editions (how many copies of the Terminator movies have you bought?), I just assumed that Paramount would eventually do the same thing with this movie. But to date this hasn't happened, so I finally broke down and bought it and I'm glad I did. Every time I watch it I laugh harder. And my letter writing campaign to Criterion continues. La Resistance!
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Summary: very funny
Review: True, they probably curse more than 200 times in this movie. But it is hilarious. Do I think they could of tuned down the cursing and it still be as funny, no I don't.
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Summary: Never Gets Boring
Review: I notice something new every time I watch this movie.
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