South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999)

"!#@!&*&$%#%%*&^*)*_)*^&*^%&%$^$#%#@$@##@$##@@!!!!#^$^%$^&%$, Barbra Streisand." [Eric Cartman]

When I was watching this, it was a testament to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's genius that for about 40 minutes I forgot that South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut was released 13 years ago.  13 years!  It blows my mind.

Now that I have seen this movie 3 times, I can state that this movie is in fact a work of genius.  Yes, it is crude, senseless, juvenile, full of potty mouth, constantly inappropriate, flagrantly disrespectful, and a tour de force of the socially unacceptable.  It is also clear from the tone of the movie that the creators response to all of this negative attention is "AND?"  (They don't care.  This movie is on their terms...not ours.)  If you are morally, psychologically, politically, ethnographically, or ecumenically opposed to South Park's posture.  TOUGH...don't watch it.

I think the first real genius point I noticed in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut upon this viewing was that Trey Parker and Matt Stone actually made a meta-film about their own experience from social reactionaries.  I know, probably others caught on to this way before I did, but still, the whole concept of a movie about negative social reaction to your own movie is brilliant.

Secondly, I have to just give my hats off to basically every single song in the movie.  Each one is  work of a true master by itself...but to have them all in one movie is just an overload.

"Wellllllllllllllllll'  [Cartman)
"Don't say it Cartman" [Kyle]
"Weeeeeeeelllllllllllllllll" [ Cartman]
"I'm warning you." [Kyle]
"Wellll, Kyle's mom's a...."[Cartman]

"Up there, there's so much room, where babies burp and flowers bloom, everyone dreams, I can dream too, up there, up there."  [Satan]

'You see the distant flames they bellow in the night, you fight in all our names for what we know is right, and when you all get shot,and cannot carry on, though you die, La Resistance lives on.  You may get stabbed in the head by a dagger or a sword, you may burned to death or skinned alive or worse. But when they torture you, you won't feel the need to run for, though you die, La Resistance lives on." [Gregory]

Oh, and I think it's great to have more homages to The Pirates of Penzance in movies.

Ratings:

Gilbert and Sullivan:  See it

MANL (Mother's Against Naughty Language):  You really should see it with an open heart and mind...but

Free Speechists:  Obviously See it

Canadians:  Yup, must see

George Clooney:  You were in this movie.  You saw it.

On a  scale of Don Quixote to the RNC, I give South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut 4 out of 5 stars.