Oh my God, they killed decency!

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 1999)

This was a clever movie that was also the most vulgar, most obscene piece of filmmaking I've seen outside of porn. Which is too bad, because the clever things -- ripoffs of Star Wars, Les Miserables, Disney musicals, race relations, the Motion Picture Association of America and the way the whole movie was really about itself (watch it and you'll understand) -- get buried under an avalanche of cursing (more than in an Eddie Murphy concert film), private parts and blasphemy that I had thought until now would be impossible to get away with in a mainstream movie.
So I appreciated much about the movie. But I can't possibly recommend it to anyone.
Yes, this is a movie for adults, and I judge it as such. And I'm not exactly chaste in my language or humor, unfortunately. But I cannot separate the idea from the content. The idea, coming through loud and clear, is this: There are no standards. Not between good and evil, proper and improper, right and wrong, etc.
This is a dangerous idea.
In the wake of Columbine, people have been too ready to blame entertainment for our ills. No sane person will see this movie and commit an act of violence because of it, but I fear it does tear down the soul.
I guess that makes me a big, fat b***h.