Viva la Resistance

Rating: 10/10 (1 August 2008)

South Park was and is not an extremely popular show in my country, it is popular but of course and obviously not as The Simpsons, and obvious that is because it will never air on National TV. I don't really remember in what year exactly this movie was premiered in my country, not on theaters but only on cable TV as a PPV movie but by that year I was already a really big fan of the show and by that year it wasn't already part of the regular programs of MTV so the movie was and still is not popular here. I remember that the first time I saw this movie I was taping it and eventually that VHS became one of my favourites but it's been a long time since I haven't watch this movie and also I stop watching regularly the show after Season 6 (released in my country in 2003 I think) and since then I have just bought the Greatest Hits Vol.1 DVD and I have seen just some episodes on MTV but not long time ago I knew about the fact that now all the episodes are available on the official website for free! So recently I saw a couple of the new episodes and I found them hilarious so I have been listening, for the very first time, some of the mini commentaries of Trey and Matt from the DVDs, in short "re-discovering" South Park. Now it was time to finally watch again SP: Bigger, Longer & Uncut after so many years and right now I'm glad I have just did it but I'm more than glad that it is still that film that I loved!!!
It begins in the classic way of making references to Cinema itself, not only with the boys (Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny) going to watch the first feature film of their favourite TV show (Terrance & Phillip), which is R-Rated, but also and quickly putting Cinema as "where we learn everything that we know" so what does the boys will learn by watching, lots of times, the 180 minutes Canadian masterwork of comedy 'Asses of Fire'? Well everything that was previously censored!
It is a clever film and until now they have made similar things, for example in that episode with Family Guy, and in this case we are watching in the film a not surreal reaction of the parents if we think in the reaction of the parents if their kids starts talking like Cartman but it is the South Park movie and they make more bizarre stuff than those pair of Canadians. And later it plays as a great satire of war but they just don't care that and that's why it gets better.
As for the boys, basically the four are together (yet Kenny in hell) fighting for the same cause but of course not for the same reasons (Stan must find the clitoris also!) but that doesn't really matters since these kids are clever enough to know that they are living a f*cked up situation. As for secondary characters, there aren't many difficulties in order to remember a memorable moment for most of the regulars support characters of the show and since South Park is the place where problem with T & P and the apocalypse began and since it's a "quiet" town everybody has a part. Basically Kyle's mom is the nemesis in the story and we can understand why Cartman hates that bitch. The mothers are of course the ones that are relevant in the story and everyone else has just little moments but as I write those are just memorable, for example Ike hiding alone (stay for the scene after the credits also) and Chef leading the Human Shield squad with that crazy but hilarious general who killed Bill Gates! Sound bizarre and it's really bizarre!
Of course the first feature film of a great show has to contain some "special" things ('Asses of Fire' has some great musical numbers and for god sakes it is a 180 minutes film!!!) and apart of being uncut we have many great special effects, Kenny's face (voice of Mike Judge!!), Saddam Hussein (in the great style of those guys) and many great and hilarious musical numbers. Trey Parker has said that 'This Is Spinal Tap' is the reason of why he make movie musicals and definitely this is one of my favourites musicals of all time, simply because the songs fits perfect and all of them are extremely hilarious (who can forget Uncle F**ka).
To recommend Trey and Matt stuff is still not that easy and it could be simply like "if you love the show you will love this movie" and that's truth yet if somebody who wants to start with South Park this is great way to and if you love it then you will check the show and if you don't well at least you have seen South Park at its finest.
DVD Extras: only 3 trailers which are all just great but still it is just a good presentation of the film.