What the hell?! A good South Park movie?

Rating: 9/10 (3 July 1999)

I must say, I enjoy watching the South Park television show. Nevertheless, I thought that the humor of Trey Parker and Matt Stone was to random and mindless to successfully transfer South Park to the big screen. Boy was I wrong. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut is a definitive '90s film. In a time where political correctness and blaming mass entertainment for societies ills runs rampant, Parker and Stone have managed to create a brilliant satire reflecting the ridiculousness of our society. In the decade of school shootings, violence on the big screen has been replaced (in this film) by a raunchy curse-fest called "Asses of Fire" starring the flatulent, Canadian duo, Terrence and Philip. When the kids of South Park begin emulating their heroes, their parents and teachers become outraged, and instead of blaming themselves for allowing them to see the movie (the parents pay for their tickets), they blame the movie and the country that exported the film, Canada. Parodying Disney and Broadway musicals to the extreme, Parker and Stone trace the blame game all the way through the the impending Apocolypse caused by the spilling of Terrence and Philip's blood on American soil (it is the Seventh Sign). For however raunchy and crude the humor in this film is, it is not without purpose. It makes the viewer look at themselves and where they stand in society. In the aftermath of the Columbine shootings, who is to blame? Is it the movies that kids see or the parents that allow their kids to see them?