A Postmodern Masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (29 June 2000)

Nothing satisfies like watching a pig out of its pen, running rampant in the parlor--especially when that parlor is not only Hollywood but mother America as well. The movie South Park, based on an overrated scatological cable show, was an absolute declaration of war, an robust indictment against America's bulging irresponsibility, vile narrow-mindedness, and arch-conservatism.
The humor is foul-mouthed, cynical, and very funny, but more than anything else it's subversive and topical, unprecedented even by the standards of satire. What movie has even commented upon the MPAA rating system or the television V-chip or the US military or Bill Gates or Barbara Streisand (among others), no less attack them so unabashedly?
The crude aesthetic, of course, was integral, as were the fabulous musical numbers--on top of everything else, South Park is the best musical, as well as the best musical critique, in decades. I have met people who, quoting that old retarded adage, say that they "just know they wouldn't like this movie" But I predict that history will reward South Park the way it has Dr. Strangelove and Network--as a thunderously realized, albeit cartoonish, reflection of its time.