As entertaining as movies get

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 1999)

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's brilliant and raunchy animated sitcom has done what few TV knockoffs have achieved, they made it into a good movie. I was skeptical about how good it would be (usually, what works on TV doesn't work on the big screen, take it as a rule), but this was a nice surprise.
The movie starts with Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny sneaking in to see the raunchy, R-rated movie titled, appropriately enough, "Asses of Fire", starring two of their favourite Canadian actors Terrence and Philip (if you've seen even one episode of "South Park", you know what I am talking about). The movie is so vulgar (including a priceless musical number about incest) that the kids pick it up and start repeating the obsceneties in school. This leads them into trouble with the school, and ultimately with their parents, who launch a crusade against Canada, who they blame for warping their children's minds. Not since Michael Moore's "Canadian Bacon" has a movie ripped into Canada so fiendeshly. Canada is the main butt of all jokes here. There are some colorful musical numbers in the movie as well, sung by the cast themselves.
"South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" is one of the most crude and offensive movies I have ever seen, so needless to say I loved it. The humour is razor-sharp, and the vulgaraties come at you at a mile-a-minute. There are so many four-letter words here, and they have spared nobody from their pot shots. There is no word to obscene, and no blow too low. It is obvious that the two creators have attempted to offend as many people as possible: gays, blacks, jews, women, chinese, germans, everybody. It is the perfect mix of low-brow humor and political satire. It is no secret that the TV show South Park has lost a lot of popularity, this can easily be attributed to that fact that there are no new episodes, and people are getting sick of re-runs.
I don't think there were two minutes in this movie that I went without laughing, both because it was pure comedy, other times because I simply could not believe what I was seeing and hearing. Even fans of the show (like myself) will be shocked, yes, the movie is that raunchy. It is the perfect mix of low-brow humour and political satire. I have never has such a good time at a movie. I'll definitely see it again.