Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2283 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-11-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 81 minutes

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OK, let's get all the disclaimers out of the way first. Despite its colorful (if crude) animation, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is in no way meant for kids. It is chock full of profanity that might even make Quentin Tarantino blanch and has blasphemous references to God, Satan, Saddam Hussein (who's sleeping with Satan, literally), and Canada. It's rife with scatological humor, suggestive sexual situations, political incorrectness, and gleeful, rampant vulgarity. And it's probably one of the most brilliant satires ever made. The plot: flatulent Canadian gross meisters Terrance and Philip hit the big screen, and the South Park quartet of third graders--Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman--begin repeating their profane one-liners ad infinitum. The parents of South Park, led by Kyle's overbearing mom, form "Mothers Against Canada," blaming their neighbors to the north for their children's corruption and taking Terrance and Philip as war prisoners. It's up to the kids then to rescue their heroes from execution, not mention a brooding Satan, who's planning to take over the world.

To give away any more of the plot would destroy the fun, but this feature-length version of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Comedy Central hit is a dead-on and hilarious send-up of pop culture. And did we mention it's a musical? From the opening production number "Mountain Town" to the cheerful antiprofanity sing-along "It's Easy, MMMKay" to Satan's faux-Disney ballad "Up There," Parker (who wrote or cowrote all the songs) brilliantly shoots down every earnest musical from Beauty and the Beast to Les Misérables. And in advocating free speech and satirizing well-meaning but misguided parental censorship groups (with a special nod to the MPAA), Bigger, Longer & Uncut hits home against adult paranoia and hypocrisy with a vengeance. And the jokes, while indeed vulgar and gross, are hysterical; we can't repeat them here, especially the lyrics to Terrance and Philip's hit song, but you'll be rolling on the floor. Don't worry, though--to paraphrase Cartman, this movie won't warp your fragile little mind. Unless you have something against the First Amendment. --Mark Englehart

From The New Yorker
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's television-cartoon phenomenon about four potty-mouthed boys and the cold mountain town they live in gets a big, splashy, singing-and-dancing, R-rated feature-film début-and it's pretty damn fat-ass funny. Parker and Stone's animation style-brightly colored cutouts on minimally painted backgrounds-owes a whole lot to Colorforms, and its very cheesiness is endearing. The movie, basically a rant against the motion-picture rating system, features more foul language than "Fritz the Cat," and the exploits of Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman-who are trying to save South Park from a conflicted Devil (his boyfriend, Saddam Hussein, doesn't appreciate him)-are really just an excuse for some wonderful musical numbers that parody both Disney and Broadway. (The film opens just like "Oklahoma!" and has a show-stopping number sung by the Devil called "Up There" that kicks "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 's butt.) -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Watch It Again and Again Wihtout Boredom
Sadly or not so sadly this is the movie that entertains me the most no matter how many times I watch it! You're bound not to catch every joke the first go round, so the more you watch it the funnier it becomes. I knew nothing of the SouthPark episodes, but I have watched this movie more than any other! I'd buy a third copy if my first and second were stolen!

YOU'LL LAUGH YOUR BRASS ONES OFF!!!:)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut is a film version of the Classic Comedy Central series that started the V-Chip revolution. The film is about Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman sneaking into an R-rated movie and instantlly, they picked up on the foul dialogue, when the moms got wind of this, they are ready to fight against the people of Canada. There are some really funny moments like Kenny dies and goes to Hell and sees Satan and Saddam Hussein as gay lovers. Please note that like its TV counterpart, the South Park movie is NOT for children, for it has explicit language, graphic violence and sexual contents!

Don't be surprised if it becomes a classic
The South Park movie was done at the alleged height of South Park's popularity. It was done during South Park's early seasons when it had become a big merchandising machine where people everywhere were proclaiming "OMG, you killed Kenny!" For this reason, "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" seemed destined to merely be a longer version of the show and mild diversion from getting your 30 minute weekly fix.

This was not to be. While the animation was basically the same as the cheaply made tv show (with a few minor exceptions, such as the animation of Hell), the film set the bar higher for humor, plot, and overall relevance. This film wears its message on its sleeve and probably set the standard for how South Park would venture further into satire and social relevance into the present day. Yes, it's full of curse words they can't say on TV and it's not for kids and that's exactly what they tell you when you watch the movie. This film does some very sly finger pointing, and no, the devil is not to blame.

But satire aside, this film is very funny poking fun at everything from celebrity, saddam, and Broadway of all things. The Academy Award-nominated music is both funny and fantastic. It's the anti-Disney movie. The irony, the music may actually be better than the Disney lot these days. It's the music's quality, in fact, that helps the quality of this film rise above merely giving a TV show a full length motion picture makeover. The songs are funny and catchy. Watch it enough, you'll start singing along.

But there's a telling scene in the film that had me sold from the first time I watched the movie. Early on, the boys' parents are assembling the people of South Park and speaking about the filth their kids are watching. The kids try to talk to their parents while being all but ignored by them. It's a cleverly done scene that speaks volumes, driving its message home.

South Park has become something of a cultural institution. While this was done in South Park's heyday, it's continued to rise again and again in the spotlight as it continualy prys and pokes at society with subversive humor. At nearly 10 years in age, the movie's themes are still timeless and the humor still seems edgy. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll think - It's provocative and funny.