Offended? Disturbed? Good.

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2002)

This is the first time I had ever seen a movie completely go overboard in all attempts to offend every single person on the planet. When I saw it there were too many times that I just crawled into my seat embarrassed that I was in a room filled with other people watching this. However I was also laughing my a** off so hard I couldn't breathe.
In all honesty, I would have loved this movie much much less if I wasn't offended. If nothing in this picture disturbs you, then you truly can't appreciate it... and you should probably also be locked up. But that's another issue.
Starting off with a nice standard musical number with several 'what-a-minute' lines thrown in to see if the audience is paying attention (for example, Stan's Mother's comment about Jesus), the second number was a complete turn around in-your-face use of the U.S. first amendment. And considering we're in an age where the application of the constitution is optional and often disregarded by many, (how many times do people role their eyes in real life when someone says "It's my first/fifth/second/fourteenth/nineteenth amendment right!") this is one of the most important films to come out in a while.
Yes, I'm serious.
Many times we have movies attempt to defend a viewpoint of American rights (and the importance of freedom of speech for everyone in general). The great thing with this satire is that it uses the rights it is trying to defend to the fullest. And by using the ridiculous (for example using Canada as the scapegoat when the real-life scapegoat is Hollywood) it attracts a larger audience and entertains while trying to get the message across.

Parker and Stone have proven to me to be the greatest satirists in a long while. I might not agree with all of their opinions on issues, but they are extraordinarily skilled in delivering the ideas forward with the grace and elegance of a 2x4 to the back of a head.
It is unfortunate that this movie had to be tortured by one of the greatest anti-free speech organizations in America (the MPAA). Maybe they were able to turn this into a better picture due to attempts to trick them and show how moronic the MPAA is, but many other movies have been more hurt or destroyed by the interference from the organization this movie criticizes so heavily. I hope another South Park movie is made, or at least another Stone+Parker film with this level of satire. Because when these people can say what they want to, then I know that all of my own thoughts and ideas are safe for expression without government reprisal.
*SPOILER-ISH WARNING* By the way, I would like to thank the two of them for the scene with Bill Gates. I just want to know if what happened in the end undid Bill's earlier exit. We can all hope not.