forget the "mindless entertainment" BS, this movie is a thinking proposition

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2002)

(9 of 10) trey parker and matt stone have done an amazing job of mixing social commentary with fart jokes and created a commentary on american mindlessness that takes on a chilling appropriateness in light of our current "war against terror." I don't know what canada's austin andrews (the imdb featured review) was doing when this film unspooled but it could not have been watching this moview for it is far from mindless. the ubiquitousness of the insult and the outrageous behavior shows that parker and stone were more than just purveyors of potty humor but consciously reaching to make a major statement. perhaps canadians like andrews don't really get the points parker and stone were trying to make, perhaps most americans didn't either though the film did gross well [in a multitude of ways]. when my teenage son first got into south park i thought he was wasting his time. now i see i was the one wasting time by dismissing it. irony is the people who most need to learn the lessons of this film are probably the ones who'd be outraged by it and hit the off switch when the 1st joke strikes home.