One of the few movies out there worth seeing

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 1999)

It must be said that this not not one of filmdom's Golden Ages. Just about every film being released these days uses mega-hype (including irritating product tie-ins everywhere) and mind-numbing special effects in an attempt to obscure the film's predictability, bad writing, formulaic plot, irritating characters, maudlin and inappropriately placed sentimentality, stupid catchphrases, and overall smug self-importance which assumes that their average audience has the colective intelligence of a burlap bag full of moose livers. Now that I have that little rant out of the way, I'll say that "South Park" is about the only movie I found to be worth seeing this year. By South Park's standards, it's average; in other words, it's about as funny as any of the TV episodes (which I think is pretty darned funny). Compared to every other movie out there, though, it is a work of genius! Behind the crude jokes and overall bad taste lies real honest-to goodness satire! (In an age like ours which begs to be lampooned, I'm often bemused at how little real satire is out there.)
One caveat: this movie is R-rated for a reason. It's pretty raunchy. In a strange case of life imitating art, while Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman were at the Terrance and Phillip movie, I looked around the theater where I was and saw it full of kids! How did they ever get in to see this one?