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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Paramount/Warner Bros.
Director/Actors: Directed by South Park
creator Trey Parker. Written by Parker and
cocreator Matt Stone. Assorted voices by
Parker and Stone. Isaac Hayes provides
the voice of Chef.
Reviewed By: Steven Isaac WEB EDITOR'S NOTE: The foul content of South
Park far exceeds even what most secular
critics would deem appropriate. Offensive
subjects are raised with alarming frequency.
Naturally, Plugged In must address these
serious lapses in social responsibility. Parental
caution is urged even in the reading of this
review. If you are a teenager or a younger child,
please let your parents read this review
before you proceed. Premise: Third-graders Stan, Kyle, Cartman and
Kenny sneak in to see an R-rated
movie starring a Canadian comedy duo. At that
film they are "introduced" to every
possible swear word in the English language.
And a few not in the English
language. Mimicking what they hear, they swear
at each other, at their parents and
at their teachers. Of course their mothers
become outraged by this abusive
language and form a protest group called
M.A.C. (Mothers Against Canadians).
The result is a ground swell of outrage
against Canada for generating "filthy"
entertainment. One thing leads to another and
the U.S. and Canada go to war. The
comedy duo responsible is scheduled for public
electrocution. Meanwhile,
Saddam Hussein (a cut-out photograph is used
instead of typical South
Park-style animation) has died and gone to
hell. He and Satan strike up a heated,
at times sickeningly intimate homosexual
relationship. Kenny also goes to hell
after he is brutally killed. He discovers a
plot hatched by Satan and Saddam to take
over the world after the U.S. military
executes the two Canadians.Positive Elements: None.
Spiritual Content: Satan is referred to as God
and profane insults are thrown at
God. A third-grade boy referred to as "Mole"
rails against God in numerous
hate-filled diatribes. All incidents are too
vile to describe. Every insult imaginable
is tossed skyward, intertwined with the most
vulgar obscenities. When Kenny flies
up to heaven he is greeted at the gates by
realistically drawn nude "angels."
During his first "ascent" (before he is
rejected and sent down to hell), he sees a
sign that indicates that heaven's total
population amounts to just over 1,500
people. In the end, Satan--who is portrayed as
a deeply sensitive and
misunderstood loner--"wins" and restores peace
and tranquility to the earth. Sexual Content: A realistic-looking
penis-shaped sex toy is shown twice. It is not
animated. Saddam begs Satan to let him use it.
A giant pink mound which refers
to itself as a clitoris instructs one of the
boys how to end the war and "win the girl."
In fact, a recurring theme in the film is a
frantic search for the "clitoris"--the
discovery of which promises the "only sure way
to make a woman fall in love." The
boys watch pornographic movies on the
Internet. South Park vomits up a
bottomless cesspool of sexual innuendo and insults. Violent Content: Kenny's blood-splattered
death is gory beyond description. The
war fought between the U.S. and Canada
features explosions, decapitations and
many brutal depictions of violence and death.
In this film, the animation does little
to minimize the impact. Crude or Profane Language: Literally hundreds
of f-words and s-words ravage
the dialogue. The f-word is used repeatedly to
describe explicit sexual acts such
as sodomy, bestiality, incest and other forms
of abuse. Friends, parents, teachers
and God are all addressed with such vulgar
insults as "f---ing b--ch." Very few
words are spoken in this film that are not
accompanied by a profanity of some type. Homosexual Content: "Big Gay Al" makes an
appearance as emcee for a U.S.O.
function. He sings a song that celebrates
being gay. The gist of the lyrics is that the
only thing Al has to be happy about in life is
his "gayness." Satan and Saddam's
trysts have already been mentioned. Other Negative Elements: Where to begin? One
thing worth noting here is the
abundance of racial slurs and insults. Jews
and blacks are singled out. Summary: Matt Stone and Trey Parker set out to
intentionally make this South
Park movie the vilest film ever. They
deliberately selected the most offensive
jokes, story lines and images they could find.
Three times the MPAA slapped them
with an NC-17 rating before granting an R
following minor edits. The MPAA should
have stuck to its guns and insisted on the
NC-17. Stone boastfully told
Entertainment Weekly, "We're spending tons of
Paramount's money to do a big
middle finger to the MPAA. We're trying to
offend the MPAA. This film is really
nothing more than getting our own satisfaction
in knowing that the MPAA has to sit
and watch this." That said, Stone and Parker
(along with the entertainment
companies that backed them: Paramount,
Time/Warner and Comedy Central)
should be shamed for producing such a vulgar
product. But that shame falls
doubly on the head and every single person who
pays money to wallow in it.