Laughed till it hurt!

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 1999)

Let me preface this review with this: I gave the film a 10, and i laughed till i nearly wet myself. Now... As much flak as this film caught over being an excuse to use to profanity, it turned out to be one of the most barbed and pointed satires of the last several years. Wildly absurd in its parody of the current "Moral Majority" as more Squeaky Wheel than Defender of Righteousness, the film takes turns slapping the Holier Than Thou in the face with sheer defiance (Fart jokes by the bushel) and needling them with the pinpoint accuracy of a master fencer (The MPAA banning profanity but allowing graphic violence.)
Also to their credit, Parker and Stone are unafraid of pushing the envelope of taste, forcing the audience to draw a line of That's Just Not Funny, It's Sick somewhere in the sand. Be warned at some point this film will either shock or offend you (The line about being stabbed with a coat hanger while still in the womb drew a huge gasp the night i saw it).
The musical numbers are so big and brash as to top any since Disney's Beauty And The Beast; and they are riotously funny.
The ideal espoused here is one of honesty above piety. The question begged is whether to lack shame is to lack decency. With the entire dilemma shown through the eyes of small children (which is where the hilarity stems from) the end view is an optimistic Yes. But given the hullabaloo surrounding this film, as an adult i am not sure i agree.