Fast out of the gate; Slow Finish

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 1999)

This was a great half hour comedy. First 30 minutes had most of the audience laughing loud and frequently. Then something happened. It fell into a predictable formula, trying harder and harder to come up with something of shock value, yet sticking resolutely to its all too overdone formula plot. What it came up with fell short of both shock and humor; instead tedium and boredom set up.
Still all in all, this is a film worth seeing, whether or not you're a South Park fan. The gang's all here, and some of the lines will be classics, such as "I never trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die." I guess that helps make up for Sadam Hussein playing with himself. Let's see, What else was there?
Actually, there's just not much in this movie past the first half hour, and perhaps after all it's just the fun in seeing a 20 foot wide Cartman on the big screen, when he's only a foot wide on television. OK, I did like seeing President Clinton getting elbowed out of the way by Stan's mother.
Bigger, yes. Longer, YES. Uncut? Hardly. We know they made lots of adjustments to suit the censors. Mercifully, it was over inside of an hour and twenty minutes. But still, it gets two thumbs and two big toes up.