South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (2024)

This is a film that I can come back to time and time again and be entertained. It feels as if you are watching the show, but at the same time, are watching something completely unique. It acts as a compliment to the show that it is based on, and it stands even if you don't watch the show.The film parodies many subjects, such as celebrities, war, and censorship in media. The film pushes all of these to the extremes, while still remaining logical and with a point. The characters are all extremes of real people and personalities.I have had immense amounts of fun watching this film every time, noticing new things that I hadn't noticed in any of my previous viewings.Overall, I'd definitely recommend this film to anybody looking for a movie that balances multiple types of comedy and darker themes to make an overall enjoyable film experience.

Overall: I strongly believe this movie is one of the greatest satires ever devised and it is just brilliant. Very strongly recommend.Good:: It was very funny from the offset and throughout. The music is actually phenomenal. The characters are great, the villain is great and the story is so well made to make it very humorous yet also satirical and clever. The voice acting was great, especially the singing.Bad: Not every moment was hysterically funny and many will not appreciate the humour Matt and Trey provide. I didn't like the Stan and Wendy subplot and, while it was in the cartoon, I feel it should have been left out. The animations is quite jerky but that is how the cartoon is made.Best Part: Cartman goes super saiyan on Sadam Husain.MVP: Trey Parker as Eric Cartman8/10 Gold

At the time, 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut' was released, Matt Stone and Trey Parker's popular animated series was at the peak of its popularity due to its crude and dark, surreal humor that satirizes a wide range of topics. So it was no surprise that fans were foaming at the mouth to feast their eyes on a full-length cinematic adaptation. They got it in the summer of 1999, due to the success of the Comedy Central show. Made after Season 2, and before Season 3. Stone and Parker were given nearly virtually limitless platform to let their depraved satire and original comedy run wild. And run wild they did with the nudity, violence and toilet humor, they put in the movie. However, it's the profanity that got this movie, the most infamous. In fact, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut went on to earn a spot in Guinness World Record history for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film.", & first computer-animated film in history to receive an R rating, despite alleged pressure from Paramount Pictures officials to keep the movie toned down. Thank goodness, this foul-mouthed musical didn't get it's originally rated NC-17 rating. I would have, thought that would be, way too extreme of rating, just because the movie felt like using profanity. Still, the Rated R movie really went beyond what the television show, was able to do, at the time. What made this movie, very entertaining is the fact that South Park uses a very large ensemble cast of recurring characters that was originally intended for mature audiences. While, it's more common place, now. In the late 1990s, it wasn't. This movie was never made for kids. Yet, some children did see it, at the theater. I was one of them. My parents knew how controversy, this movie was, at the time, but they understood, that behind the foul-language and low brow humor, there was some intellectually insightful satire view into modern society. After all, the movie is self-reflective in nature. The enthusiasm the kids display for seeing the Terrence and Phillip movie reflects the creators' anticipation of the real world enthusiasm many people, including those under age, would experience to see the movie. I'm not saying, that children should see this movie. It's really up to your call. I just saying, as parents, you should allow your children, some freedom to make their decisions, than acting too much of authoritarian. After all, hearing people swear is, part of growing up in the modern age. You just have to teach them, why certain words are not welcome for general use, and try to guide them into making more moral judgement calls. It's call parenting. I'm not even saying, my parents were even permissive. There were plenty of other extreme movies with sex & violence, I wasn't allowed to watch, until I was, way older. In the end, this movie didn't really turn me into a foul-mouthed psychopath. It just broader my intellectual development even larger. Another thing that was brilliant about this movie is how it's advocates against censorship, and better parenting. In many ways, the plot for this movie is very similar to the sixth episode of the first season of South Park, in which Death comes to South Park, after the parents of South Park protest against the foul language use in a local TV Station. However, unlike "Death", this movie use the execution of Terrance (Voiced by Matt Stone) and Phillip (Voiced by Trey Parker) as the Seventh Sign in a parody of the Apocalypse; causing Satan (Voiced by Trey Parker) to return to Earth. In addition to the Canadian Duo, that episode also introduced recurring characters Kyle's mother. (Voiced by Mary Kay Bergman) that would played a big role in this film by blaming Canada for the children use of language, rather than themselves. Much of the plot, is also a homage to the 1993's 'Beavis and Butt-Head' controversy where a little boy set his trailer on fire which killed his little sister on accident. Instead, of blaming the boy, his mother of course blamed the MTV animation show. In the movie, Kenny (Voiced by Beavis and Butthead creator, Mike Judge) is use in very fashion, showing how much people are unwilling to accept responsibility for their actions, and would rather look for scapegoats within the media, government, religion, and culture, as a way to solve their problem. Because of that, it point out the absurdities that both extreme sides of a social issue cling to, so well. It is Meta Humor use at its best and funniest. Another great thing about this film is the use of a lot of subversive, profanity-laced musical songs. All written by co-creator Trey Parker and Hollywood composer Marc Shaiman that ripped off and spoofed traditional theatrical musicals such as 1955's 'Oklahoma', 1961's 'West Side Story', 1965's 'Sound of Music', 1989's 'Little Mermaid', and of course, 1998's 'Les Miserables". Songs like 'Mountain Town', 'What Would Brian Boitano Do?', 'La resistance" and others, became a house-hold names, because, how memorable, the lyrics and tone were. Even songs like 'Blame Canada' was nominated for an Oscar, for best original song. Because of this film success in the music department, the creators of this movie were able to make the fame Broadway musical, 'The Book of Mormon', years later, with also got great praise. The voice acting is also pretty good in this film, with most of the original cast reprising their roles. I even love all the celebrity voice cameos like George Clooney, Eric Idle and Minnie Driver that came to lend a hand, during production. The visuals are not that bad, as well. Although clearly aged, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut still looks great. Overall: What Would Brian Boitano Do? He would probably go see this movie. So check it out! It's one hell of a film.

Some people might not see it, but South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is a very meta movie. The Terrence and Phillip movie Asses of Fire is pretty much an analogy for this movie, and the rest of the film is an over-exaggerated reenactment of how people reacted to the movie. When I first saw this film, I saw it as nothing more than some fart jokes and a bunch of cursing, but now that I am seeing it again at an older age, I realize that it is actually brilliant satire of censorship and the MPAA.The film follows Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman as they see the new Terrence and Phillip movie. This causes them to become more vulgar and rowdy, and the rest plays out like an long South Park episode. I was always was a fan of South Park, and would watch it whenever it came on, and this film is made for South Park fans, so obviously I would enjoy it. The humor of the show is a very specific type of comedy, and doesn't stray from that, so people who do not like that comedy, don't like all of South Park, and people who like that comedy, love all of South Park. This is why in the Animated Musical HoF, everyone who participates either hates the movie, or loves it. You can pretty much separate the whole world into people who like South Park, and people who don't.Like Monty Python and the Holy Grail every single line of this film is a joke. There is no moments where they comedy is stopped. Even when they are trying to deliver a serious message, they always do it in a comedic way. The actual jokes are very funny, and are exactly what I expect from Trey Praker and Matt Stone, but I think that there are episodes of South Park that are more funny, and I wish that they went all out for the movie. Because instead of watching this movie, I would just recommend you to watch the 4 best episodes of the show back to back, it would be more funny. This isn't really a huge problem, and it didn't lose the film many points, but I think you should only turn a TV show into a movie, you have to do something you can't do on TV. This is the same problem I had with The Simpsons Movie.And now about that brilliant satire I was talking about earlier. A while ago I watched a documentary called This Film is Not Yet Rated it was a documentary about the MPAA, and how they constantly like to screw over filmmakers. Violence and blood barley bother them, while cursing and sex make them give films the dreaded NC-17 rating. There are many cleverly hidden lines about the MPAA in this film, and I imagine must have been hard to get past them. There were lines in the film were they said that violence is fine for children, but how dare they say certain words. Isn't "sticks and stones may break my bones" what we teach children? One of my favorite things about South Park is that it is always the children that realize when something is bad instead of the adults. I now see this movie as an argument against censorship, and I think that it is much smarter than many people give it credit for.I have now tried to explain why South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is pretty brilliant. In my opinion, the whole movie was an analogy for censorship, and they threw a Saddam and Satan love affair in there just for fun. I think Terrence and Phillip represented freedom of speech, and MAC was the MPAA. It is a very far-fetched theory, and is probably wrong. This review was way longer that I thought it would be, so I'm gonna end it now. If you like South Park, like satire, and don't mind some cursing, this is the movie for you.(This review was originally written on Movie Forums July 30th 2015)