Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation? I don't listen to hip hop.

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2002)

As a South Park fan it's really hard to give an objective rating to the movie, the show definitely shows high and low points with the high points being the first season and the current one and the low point being the 4th season, this movie comes from the end of the show's first high point and is probably funnier than any south park episode.
The plot is as zany and off the wall with many subplots, much like an episode of south park, The boys go see the Terrence and Phillip movie which is laden with foul words, the movie becomes a craze with american youth and spreads like wildfire through south park elementary (one really funny scene includes a girl wearing a shirt in the cafeteria with a word that i can't say here). The boys get in trouble at school for using the foul language towards Mr. Garrison and the school starts a counseling program, the kids see the movie again and undo everything they learned, this leads the parents to starting a war with Canada over their entertainment and there's so many subplots that i don't even want to begin to get into it.
The movie is a musical and anybody who thinks there was no effort put into the songs (yes, even uncle f---a) really needs to take a second listen, especially to "Blame Canada" which was very clever and earned an Oscar nomination.
Trey Parker uses the popular South Park license to get across a very important message about censorship and the American government overstepping its bounds which is very true today, it gives answers instead of bringing up new questions (Who's responsible for the kids behavior? The parents.), and is an essential viewing seeing as how prophetic it was. The war with Canada in the film is very very similar to our current situations after 9/11 with Iraq and Afghanistan, civil liberties are going to the wayside and our government does whatever they please and chalks it up to the war on terror. And is there really any difference between that and a war on foul language? It's just an excuse with a different name.
This movie would work fine if the South Park TV show never existed, the characters are defined well for new viewers and the musical approach makes it fresh and new, the original NC17 rating and studio censorship really angered Trey and Matt so they're probably not going to make another South Park movie, as much as i'd love to see it. This one is timeless and even more important today than it was then.
10/10