What a relief ... lovely

Rating: 9/10 (22 February 2000)

This movie just hits the spot. This movie is funny, yet sophisticated - its contains loads of obscenity, yet it carries important messages.
When Eric, Kyle, Stan and Kenny goes to see the two Canadians - Terrance & Phillip in "Arses of Fire" - they learn some real lovely obscene expressions, which they unload at poor Mr. Garrison the next day at school... and hell breaks loose (so to speak).
Anyway this movie treats the whole who-is-to-blame-for-what-our-children-watch issue so great. To put things to the extreme, they blame Canada, and decide to execute Terrance & Phillip, which leads to war between USA and Canada.
The story is told in these exaggerated terms, and ethnic groups and lots of individuals gets a rough word on the way - everything in a great spirit of political non-correctness. It folds South Park itself into the movie and so pictures USA's reaction to the South Park series, while still holding on to a general problem, the who-is-to-blame-thing - clever. But the really surprise in this "musical" is the music - its awesome! As this writing-hour, one of the songs has been nominated for an Oscar - and that is no surprise.
I can only urge you to see this movie. Yea yea there's a lot of obscene words, but that's not directly what makes this movie good, and yet indirectly it is.
I have 3 main points that makes this movie worth seeing - even if you're not a South Park incarnate.
1) The music
2) The real issue of the movie, so elegantly pictured by exaggeration.
3) The numerous small funny scenes.
I give this 9/10