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Censorship, racism, homophobia and parental paranoia all get the hilarious South Park treatment.
As half hour TV, South Park is a short, sharp spurt of cracked, criminally inventive comedy. But can its loveably demented creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, keep it up for eighty minutes, or are they merely masters of premature ejaculation? Well, they not only go the distance but hump harder than ever before, and leave the audience covered in comedy of the first order.
When the kids of South Park sneak in to see the new Terrance & Phillip movie 'Asses of Fire', they learn something terribly empowering: profanity. With swear words pouring out like piss from an incontinent pensioner, the kids’ potty mouths eventually start a war.
Have you ever wanted to hear kids curse like prison lifters? Ever wanted to see Satan getting pleasured by Saddam Hussein? What about giant talking clitoris'? Well, it’s all here. In Technicolor. Parker and Stone work sick, deviant comic wonder with the South Park movie. They also take a big, healthy bite out of America’s hypocritical diet of alleged family values and spit it back in their country’s face. Censorship, racism, homophobia and parental paranoia all get the hilarious South Park treatment. As Cartman would say, this movie is totally sweet.
A brave attempt to fly in the face of contemporary attitudes to the media, censorship and freedom of speech.
The transition of the much-loved and occasionally reviled TV series South Park to feature status on the big screen is quite an achievement for its creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who co-write and co-produce, Parker directs and they voice some of the more familiar characters.
In making their point about the hypocrisy of protecting children from life's filth they fling this so-called filth at the audience with reckless abandon. The key characters of Cartman, Kenny, Kyle and Stan are so influenced by sneaking into an R-rated Canadian movie that their conversation instantly becomes rife with expletives. Their classmates follow suit. Kyle's mother becomes an activist, inflaming the nation against the unrepentant Canadians to the point where war is declared.
Kenny meanwhile is undergoing his usual life threatening experiences. Kenny's then thrust into hell where Satan is in a turbulent relationship with Saddam Hussein. This fascinating scenario is dotted with Disney-like songs, but South Park is a long way indeed from Disney animation in sentiment. Perhaps lacking the cleverness of some of the best moments of the TV series, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut is a brave attempt to fly in the face of contemporary attitudes to the media, censorship and freedom of speech.
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