10/10

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2013)

It's been well over a decade since I last saw "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut." Of course, being a fan of TV's "South Park" since almost the beginning, this movie just had to be seen by me in the theaters in 1999. Well, obviously, since I was just 14 that year, I couldn't see this movie in the theaters, but I WAS able to see it when it came out on VHS. The show, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, was thus expanded into feature-length territory, and it will not disappoint fans of the show (since both Parker and Stone had a hand in writing and directing the film). "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut" came out at the perfect time at the end of the cynical, politically correct '90s. Parker and Stone are both equal-opportunity offenders, and nothing is sacred in their view - religion, race, politics, free speech, etc. But despite the rampant toilet humor, they do seem to be saying things about free speech, racism, censorship, homosexuality, the nature of war and of course, political correctness. These themes are laced in a story in which potty-mouthed third-graders Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny sneak into the movie theater to go see "Terrance and Phillip: Asses of Fire" at the theater. When their parents discover the truth, they launch a campaign to wage war against Canada, with the boys the only hope of averting World War III - and - the apocalypse (because Satan and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein are in on the fun, also). If you were a teenager in 1999 like I was, this movie will have you in stitches; also, if you were a teenager in 1999, you most likely had parents who forbade you from seeing this movie at all costs (yet you probably got away with a few private viewings anyway). I managed to catch a few viewings with my mom (who could stomach the proceedings, while my father obviously couldn't). 14 years later, "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut" has not really lost its power to offend, and captured that chaotic atmosphere amazingly well.
See it, and be offended.
10/10