Love the series, hate the movie

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 1999)

If you're expecting a two-hour episode of the series, that's not what you're going to see. Although the movie title includes the word "uncut," the word is that some things had to be cut to get the "R" rating instead of "NC-17." If this is the tame version, I'd hate to see what was removed. At the theater where we saw the movie, an usher was posted outside the door handing out movie passes as people left during various parts of the movie when they exceeded their individual offensiveness tolerances.
If Stone and Parker had made a two-hour movie with the offensiveness level of a normal episode, it would have been a popular movie, but perhaps moviegoers might have left the theater thinking they hadn't seen anything new. If they had made a two-hour movie with the offensiveness level of "The Spirit of Christmas," I think we would have been reminded of what we saw in that original short that made us want to see a TV series. However, by releasing the movie they did, I think they may have killed the proverbial golden goose; I'm not sure I can watch the series anymore as it might remind me of the (for lack of a better term) assault to which we were subjected tonight.