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| South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut |
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| Movies,
Jerry Carpenter,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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Although South Park’s second season saw a tear jerking Mr Hanky and Kyle reunion, and possibly the most mindbogglingly inane 30 minutes broadcast this decade (that Terrence and Phillip special), the early sparkle of obscenity and taboo cracking has paled a little. Nice to see then for the feature length production Messers Parker and Wilson have taken every opportunity to push up the taste bar. Ten minutes in and you’re hearing bouncy mouthed Canadian icons Terrance and Phillip in their film within a film ‘Asses of Fire’ crack out the jauntiest foul mouthed musical number since Kevin ‘bloody’ Wilson.
The plot is suitably mindless – The cute little shits from the show go see the above mentioned film and come out spouting vile epithets to their parents and teachers. Terrance and his pal are accused and arrested, the outcome of which is that Canada and the USA go to war. No Baftas in the offing then, but within the fuzzy felt animated antics are some inspired blasts of quickfire oddball humour. Between the massacre at the Baldwin Manor, Winona Ryder’s ping-pong ball firing vagina, and the ‘Terminal Man’ inspired mind implanted swearbox for the kids, there’s a lot of weirdness up there. Sure, a lot of the laughs are pretty low-brow, but when implemented with such fine comic timing they’re funnier than more ‘sophisticated’ humour from recent movie rom-coms (Notting Hill, Forces of Nature?)
It’s a good sign when even the musical numbers are funny – something The Simpsons has yet to figure out, with all the musical formats exploited, culminating in a stunning Micheal McDonald number. If there’s anything that South Park BLU fails in it’s maintaining the pace built up in the first hour, and some of the cod-sentimental stuff towards the final half hour does miss the mark somewhat. For the most part however, this is the funniest thing you’ll see till the next Farelly Brothers film comes out.
UK rating:
15
US rating:
PG
Trey Parker1999, US
Cartman, Kyle, Kenny, Stan, Chef
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