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DVD
Paramount
Publisher: Paramount Pictures
Trey Parker
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Actors: Deb Adair, Mary Kay Bergman, Franchesca Clifford, George Clooney, Stewart Copeland
Stan kyle kenny and cartman sneak into an r-rated movie and it warps their fragile little minds. Soon their indignant parents declare war on canada and our young heroes are americas last hope to stop armageddon. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006 Starring: Animated Run time: 81 minutes Rating: R Director: Trey Parker
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
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| Hilariously Vulgar, Brilliantly Crafted Satire |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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The animated series South Park was consistently good, but creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone have exceeded anything and everything the series has accomplished in this movie. It's probably the most vulgar animated musical you'll ever see, but it's also unceasingly funny, packed with heart, and effectively satirizes a pretty big issue in America today. Especially around the time this movie was produced, the entertainment industry was getting all the blame for the corruption of American kids, and this movie cleverly digs into that problem, giving viewers a peek at the real source behind the issues. But even if you don't give a crap about the deeper meanings, this is a damn funny movie you can watch over and over, and neither the laughs nor the songs get old.
Like "South Park" the series, the movie is loaded with clever little details and a whole bunch of plots that all come together for the explosive, apocalyptic climax. Kenny dies (of course) and is sent to Hell... where he discovers that Satan and Saddam Hussein are lovers and, sidebar, planning to reign hell on Earth. Cartman has an anti-profanity chip installed in his head, to hilarious results. Stan leads La Resistance, a group of children against the war Kyle's mom is waging against Canada for allowing Terrance and Phillip's vulgarity. All of this, as I said before, comes together beautiful in a ridiculously perfect end. It's cinematic excellence in the guise of an animated comedy.
Whether "South Park" fan or "South Park" virgin, this movie will entertain over and over again. It's definitely one that warrants a permanent place in the DVD collection. One warning, though... the songs might get caught in your head for days on end!
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| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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South Park is my favorite TV show and this movie arived very fast. thank you so much
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| The tl;dr Review |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Amazing film, funny and crass in the trademark South Park style with awesome and hilarious musical numbers. The only fiat barring it from earning five stars is because the DVD is practically barren of special features or bonus content of any kind.
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| The Best Darn South Park Adventure Yet |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I think its safe to say that I'm a huge South Park fan. I've been with the series since episode 1, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe".
This Movie is all the lewd, crude, and Hilarious humor that we have come to expect from the 4 young lads in Colorado, only this time, it's Uncut.
The witty and (For lack of a better term) Idiotic characters that Matt Stone and Trey Parker write oh so well return, and they are better then ever. A Homosexual Saddam Hussein? Check. A non-violent and caring Satan? Check. Kenny actualy showing his face!? Check. Its all here, and its better then ever.
South Park BL&U is practically the greatest episode of South Park ever. Not only does it feature uncensored and hilarious scenarios, but it also has fabulous Music Scores. Even these are twisted and so far out, that it Screams excellence.
On a more serious note, BL&U actually does have a pretty heart-felt point to it. It shows that The Youth of our Nation has something important to say about war, and how we spasmodically choose to go to it. This is all cleverly burned into the hilarious Satire and witty humor.
If your a fan of this series, You have already seen it. Its hilarious in every aspect, and is definitely a must-see for anyone who is familiar with the show.
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| Bigger, Longer, and Uncompromising |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Outstanding! 5 Stars. This is how it's done. Stay true to the spirit and vision of the TV series and put in what would otherwise be in the TV show if TV didn't have to cater to lame, uptight, humorless people all the time. But it is precisely because of society's weirdness, stupidy, and strange mores that makes South Park possible in the first place. It is only out of the sheer wackyness of America that South Park comes from and reason why it is so funny. And I shouldn't be too down on America. I mean it's not like were in China or some crazy Muslim country. I'm sorry but those people are crazy.
"Bigger, Longer, & Uncut" makes me picture a gigantic uncircumcised wang which is a little funny I guess, but mainly just an image I'd prefer not to have in the first place. Where they really knocked it out of the park (no pun intended. really) is with the music numbers!! Great stuff. And I'm no big fan of musicals. Though come to think of it South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, -they all are great when it comes to the musical number. I don't understand people taking issue with South Park's animation being "crude". The style of animation is part of the charm of the show and it's characters and what makes it funny. It looks kind of absurd the way the characters move around sort of like puppets and there is very little detail to buildings and things.
The highlights of this great American comedy are so many, but the "Uncle F----" song is a favorite. And The Mole. When The Mole cursed god! Soo funny. My friends and I noticed that none of the black people in the audience laughed during that part which was an interesting social observation to us at the time. Having the plot center on Terrance and Phillip, the end of the world and the return of Satan -- all because of censorship and intolerance, you simply cannot top. They outdid themselves.
There are relatively few contemporary movies I've seen in the theater that I feel are perfectly realized artistic achievements. And that are as entertaining. Trey Parker and Matt Stone who are big fans of Mike Judge said that Judge did the smart thing with "Beavis and Butthead Do America" and by smart they meant safe. Judge made a movie that was fairly safe for the general public. I think South Park's creators got it backwards on that. They did the smart thing with their movie. Out of all the TV cartoon series movies South Park's is the best.
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