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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) FM
In a meta move, South Park, a wildly popular, crudely animated, and notoriously naughty small-screen sensation, made the leap to the big screen with 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. The Academy Award-nominated critical and commercial hit centers on the international consequences when Terrance and Phillip, a wildly popular, crudely animated, and notoriously naughty Candian small-screen sensation, hits multiplexes with Asses of Fire, a flatulence-fueled big-screen adaptation so ferociously filthy and proudly profane that it leads to a war between the United States and our suspiciously well-mannered neighbors to the north.
In Bigger, Longer & Uncut, chums Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick become obsessed with Asses of Fire despite its hard R rating. The raunchy romp has a profound effect on the boy’s growing minds. When they begin swearing like sailors, busybody adults scapegoat Terrance and Phillip. The daffy duo is sentenced to death for corrupting kiddies. This leads to a war between the United States and Canada. Satan, meanwhile, plots to conquer Earth, but his boyfriend, Saddam Hussein, is interested only in fornication.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut begins as a potty-mouthed delight with profanity of great quality and quantity. It’s a gleeful satire of scapegoating and censorship with songs that are as catchy as they are dirty.
In its weaker second half, the film largely loses interest in Terrance and Phillip in favor of tired gay panic jokes about the devil’s dysfunctional sexual relationship with Saddam Hussein. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut begins stronger than it ends, but it still has enough laughs, satire, social commentary, infectious tunes, and inventive obscenity for five films.
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