This movie is the biggest b*tch of them all.

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2001)

I suppose I should be happy to finally be able to say conclusively that there is finally a movie that uses the f-word more often than White Man Can't Jump. But why did it have to be a cartoon?
That's not to say I think cartoons shouldn't be for adults. I own Heavy Traffic, Akira, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, Grave of the Fireflies, Wings of Honneamise, Ghost in the Shell, and about a dozen other adult and young adult animated titles, most of which are more subversive and clever than South Park (especially Heavy Traffic, which has some of the most bizarre and original sex jokes in any movie ever--and while the animation is a bit limited, it is by far more creative and stylistic than SP). Hell, just about any made-for-TV Japanese anime not aimed at children under 7 (e.g. Pokemon or Digimon) has nudity, violence, and the Japanese version of cursing--and even Pokemon had an episode where James from Team Rocket, dressed as a woman and wearing inflatable breasts that would make Lara Croft jealous, tells a young girl, "These are too much for you."
I think maybe I've become a bit jaded towards movies that pop culture deems "subversive." But what I really think puts these other movies at least a notch above South Park is that they are not content in just pushing the edge of what can and should be protected by the First Amendment--they actually have something to say that is worth protecting with the First Amendment that is not just some chicken and the egg paradox (i.e. using first amendment protection to protect the first amendment).
I mean, honestly, if all we as American citizens get in return for letting artists say what's on their mind is a bunch of fart jokes, expletives, and epithets repeated over and over just so they can rub sensitive people's faces in the first amendment one more time, then BRING ON THE BLUE PENCILS!