Monday, November 10, 2014
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT
D: Trey Parker (1999) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
The South Park kids sneak into an R-rated Canadian art film called "Asses of Fire" and emerge three hours later with a collective case of Tourette's syndrome. Their mothers respond by mobilizing the local PTA and persuading President Clinton to declare war on Canada. Kenny tries to light a fart on fire, suffers third-degree burns, dies on the operating table when the doctor accidentally replaces his heart with a baked potato, and goes to hell, where Satan is having a homosexual affair with Saddam Hussein. The kids organize a resistance group and stage a commando raid on a USO rally where a double execution is scheduled to take place. Let's see, what else? Bill Gates, Conan O'Brien and the Baldwin brothers all get killed. Brooke Shields makes a ditzy remark on a TV talk show and gets slapped upside the head. Brian Dennehy does an accidental cameo when he shows up for a musical number showcasing Brian Boitano. Winona Ryder entertains the USO audience by, um, doing something with ping pong balls. Nothing's sacred and no sacred cow is safe. Censorship gets slammed. The movie rating system gets blasted. Hypocrisy gets reamed. The picture even makes fun of its own animation. Imagine "Peanuts" with a script by Lenny Bruce. Only bigger. And longer. And uncut.